AI Apps That Run in Your Browser

Bolt.diy is a self-hosted AI coding assistant for people building full-stack Node.js web apps who want to choose their own model provider. It's a fork of Bolt.new, with a browser workspace and an Electron desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. You can also run it through Docker.

TranslateLocally is an open source machine translation app for Windows, macOS and Linux. It's for people who want to translate text on their own device, including those handling material they don't want to send to a remote translation service. The desktop app has an MIT license and uses Marian and Bergamot translation models.

nvitop is an interactive terminal monitor for NVIDIA GPUs and the processes using them. It runs locally on Linux and Windows and suits people running AI workloads who need to see device usage alongside host process information. The project is open source under Apache 2.0.

Arize Phoenix is a self-hosted platform for developers who need to understand why an AI agent failed and test changes before shipping them. It runs on a laptop, in Docker, or on Kubernetes. Self-hosting keeps traces on your infrastructure; Phoenix Cloud provides a hosted alternative. Phoenix uses the Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2), a source-available license.

Podcastfy turns documents, websites and images into AI-generated audio conversations, with the option to write transcripts using a local LLM. It's an open-source Python alternative to NotebookLM's podcast feature for creators, educators and researchers who want control over the conversation format or need podcast generation inside their own software. It uses the Apache License 2.0.

Jupyter AI connects AI agents to notebooks through a chat interface inside JupyterLab. It's for people who work in computational notebooks and want an agent to help write code, debug cells, or run notebook work without moving the conversation to a separate app. The extension runs within JupyterLab; the choice of agent determines the AI service it connects to.

MLflow brings agent tracing, LLM evaluation, and model experiment tracking into a platform you can run locally or on your own servers. It's for developers and teams who need to understand failures, compare changes, and monitor AI applications in production. It's open source under Apache 2.0.

HunyuanVideo is an AI video generation model for creators and developers who want to generate footage on their own hardware. Tencent provides model weights and inference code for text-to-video and image-to-video generation, alongside a hosted web experience. Local inference runs on your GPUs; the web offering runs through Tencent's service.

Surya is a local OCR toolkit for developers extracting text and structure from PDFs and document images. It combines text recognition, layout analysis and table recognition in one vision-language model, so results retain page structure and reading order rather than just the words.

PaddleOCR is an open source OCR and document parsing toolkit for developers building document search, RAG systems and AI agents. It runs on your own hardware or a self-hosted server and turns PDFs and images into structured Markdown or JSON. The Python toolkit uses PaddlePaddle and carries the Apache 2.0 license.

Linkwarden is a self-hosted bookmark manager for people and teams who want to keep the pages behind their saved links. It archives webpages as HTML, screenshots, and PDFs, so you can revisit the content even if the original site removes it. It's useful for research, shared reference collections, and articles you want to read later.

Viseron is a self-hosted network video recorder (NVR) that combines camera recording with local AI computer vision. It's for people monitoring a home, office or other property who want the video system and its analysis to run on their own hardware. Video processing stays local.

MMAudio generates audio that matches a video's action and timing, with text prompts available to guide the result. It also creates audio from text alone. It's for video creators who need sound for silent footage and researchers working on audio generation.

AppFlowy is a self-hosted Notion alternative for teams that want project management, shared documents, and AI in an environment they control. Its self-hosted enterprise offering can run on premises, in your own cloud, or in an air-gapped environment. Self-hosted LLMs and embedding models let you keep AI processing and workspace data inside your infrastructure, with no vendor access to your instance.

WebLLM runs language models directly in a user's browser, using WebGPU for GPU acceleration. It's an open-source engine for developers building web-based AI assistants and Chrome extensions that process prompts on the user's device rather than an inference server. The project uses the Apache 2.0 license.

LobeHub is an AI agent workspace for people who want to assign work to several assistants and keep that work organized. It offers a hosted service and a Docker-based self-hosted version for a private device or server. A Linux download is also available.

Candle is a Rust machine learning framework for developers who want to embed local AI in applications or deploy models on their own servers. It produces lightweight binaries that don't need Python in production, making it a candidate for serverless inference where a large runtime can slow startup. Its API uses tensor operations familiar to PyTorch developers.

Steel is a browser API for developers building AI agents that interact with websites. It runs Chrome sessions locally or on a self-hosted server through Docker, so you can keep browser infrastructure on hardware you control. The code uses the Apache 2.0 license. Steel also offers a hosted service where browser sessions run in its cloud.

Khoj is an AI assistant for people who want to ask questions across their own files, research the web, and give recurring work to agents. You can self-host it on your computer or server, or use Khoj's cloud app. It's open source under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license.

Vane (formerly Perplexica) is a self-hosted AI search engine for people who want answers drawn from web results, with citations they can check. It runs on your own hardware through Docker or as a server application, with a browser interface and locally stored search history. The project is free and open source under the MIT license.

Msty Studio is a private AI workspace for chatting with local or hosted models and working with your own documents. It offers a desktop app alongside web and team deployment options. Local model support includes MLX, llama.cpp and Ollama.

Gradio turns a Python function, model, or API into a web interface. It runs on your computer, making it useful for developers and researchers who want people to try an AI project through a browser. It's open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

PixlStash is an open-source image manager for photographers, AI creators and people curating image datasets. It combines library search with tools for reviewing tags, ranking images and sending selected work through ComfyUI. You can use a desktop app or a self-hosted server with a browser interface.

Eclaire is a self-hosted AI assistant for notes, documents, photos, bookmarks and tasks. You can ask questions about saved material, inspect the sources behind an answer and ask the assistant to create notes or update tasks. Scheduled automations handle recurring requests such as a weekly task summary.

PocketPaw is a self-hosted AI agent for people who want a personal assistant that can work with files, write code and use a browser on their own computer or server. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a web dashboard and access through messaging apps. It is open source under the MIT license.