Local & Self-Hosted AI Tools

cc-haha is a desktop workspace for Claude Code and AI agents. It helps developers delegate coding tasks in local projects while keeping edits and approvals visible.

Sana is a local AI image and video generation framework for creators and developers who want to generate media on their own hardware. It includes training and inference tools for working with its diffusion models.

Gitingest prepares code context for developers who want to give an LLM a repository or local directory. It gathers the project structure and file contents into a text digest instead of requiring you to assemble files by hand.

VoxKey is a free, open-source dictation app for people who want to speak into Mac text fields without sending audio to a cloud transcription service. It requires Apple Silicon and macOS 26 or later. Speech recognition runs locally and works offline after you download a model.

LatentSync is an open-source AI lip-sync tool for video creators and researchers who want a face's mouth movements to match supplied audio. It processes video on your own GPU, with demos covering filmed faces and anime characters.

Pixelmator Pro is a paid image editor for Mac and iPad that combines AI photo editing with layered graphic design and vector drawing. It's for photographers and designers who want to retouch images and build compositions in the same app. Its built-in image-processing tools use Apple hardware and machine learning, while feature availability and network requirements vary.

Perfect Memory AI keeps a searchable record of screen activity and meetings on Mac and Windows. It's for people who want to recover a page, presentation or conversation without remembering which app contained it.

Open WebUI is a self-hosted chat workspace for individuals and teams using local LLMs and cloud models. It can work entirely offline with local models.

SMAC3 is a Python tool for researchers and developers tuning machine learning models or other algorithms on their own hardware. It combines Bayesian optimization with a racing mechanism that decides which configurations deserve further evaluation. It runs locally on Linux, Windows and macOS, and supports parallel evaluation on clusters through Dask.

sqlite-vec adds vector storage and search to SQLite for developers building local AI apps or other software that uses embeddings. It keeps vectors and related application data in the same database.

Write-the is a locally installed Python command-line tool that sends code to a selected OpenAI or OpenRouter API to generate documentation and tests. It's for developers who want generated drafts alongside their codebase. The CLI handles local files while the selected provider handles generation.

Qwen2.5-Coder is a family of coding language models for developers who want a local coding assistant or a model for a self-hosted code agent. The 32B instruction-tuned model supports conversational requests about code.

sonible smart:comp is a proprietary audio compressor plug-in for producers, mix engineers and sound designers working on macOS or Windows. It analyzes your audio and maps suitable compression settings in a visual Compression Matrix, so you can compare compression characters while keeping access to conventional controls.

BasicSR is an image and video restoration toolkit for researchers and developers building software to recover detail or reduce visual defects. It provides restoration models and pipelines for training, testing and inference.

Kai 9000 is a personal AI assistant for people who want remembered context and tools that can act on their requests. Its responses can include interactive screens such as quizzes, recipe cards and dashboards.

Agent Safehouse is a local macOS sandbox for developers who want coding agents to edit a project while limiting their access to unrelated files. The operating system enforces the restrictions, so they don't depend on the agent following written instructions.

Frona is a self-hosted AI assistant for people who want agents to carry out tasks through chat with controlled access to files, networks and accounts. Agents can work independently or delegate parts of a task to other agents.

Abogen turns books, documents and subtitle files into narrated audio for readers making audiobooks and creators producing voiceovers. It can generate matching captions or follow timestamps for timed narration.

noScribe transcribes recorded interviews for qualitative researchers and journalists who need to keep audio on their own computer. It processes recordings locally rather than sending them to a cloud transcription service.

RocketRide is an AI pipeline builder and runtime for developers creating document processing, search, and agent workflows. Its visual editor sits in VS Code, alongside the application code that uses those workflows.

HQQ is a Python library for developers compressing language and vision models to fit the memory available on their own hardware. Its Half-Quadratic Quantization method doesn't require a calibration dataset.

Bolt.diy is an AI coding assistant for building full-stack Node.js web applications with your choice of model. It's a fork of Bolt.new that combines generated code with an editable development workspace.

OpenShorts turns podcasts, interviews and other long videos into short clips for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. It's for creators and social media teams who want AI to select excerpts and prepare them for posting.

DeepSeek-V3 and R1 are downloadable language models for developers who want to run text generation and reasoning on their own hardware. V3 is a general language model; R1 focuses on problems that require extended reasoning.

TensorFlow Model Optimization Toolkit is an open-source Python library for developers preparing TensorFlow and Keras models for deployment on mobile, IoT and other edge devices, or in the cloud. It helps reduce inference latency and cost, and adapt models to limits on memory, processing power, energy use and storage.

FalkorDB is a self-hosted graph database for developers building GraphRAG applications and AI agents that retrieve connected facts. It stores entities, relationships and their attributes, with Cypher queries and vector search for finding relevant information. Docker runs the database on your own hardware; a separate hosted cloud service is also available.

BrowserSkill connects AI agents to your signed-in Chrome or Microsoft Edge profile for web tasks and website debugging. It's for people who want agents to work with existing accounts and developers investigating browser bugs.

aTrain is an offline transcription app for researchers and people working with recorded interviews. It turns speech into text on your own computer and can label segments by speaker. Recordings and transcripts stay local, so you can process sensitive material without uploading it to a transcription service.

Paperless-AI is an extension for Paperless-ngx users who want to sort incoming documents automatically and ask questions about their archive. The project is no longer maintained.

EverShelf helps households keep track of food and choose meals that use what's already in the kitchen. It covers the pantry, fridge and freezer, with optional AI assistance.

Emdash is a desktop development environment for developers who want to delegate several coding tasks at once. It keeps each task's branch, terminal, conversation, and review state together so parallel work stays separate.

SWE-agent is a command-line coding agent for developers and researchers attempting fixes in GitHub repositories. It runs the agent on your machine and supports local Ollama models through a configured endpoint, or cloud APIs such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Cloud-backed runs send model requests to the selected provider.

WebBrain is an AI browser agent for people who want to ask questions about pages or delegate web tasks from a sidebar. It works in your existing browser, including signed-in tabs, and starts in read-only Ask mode.

FastChat is a self-hosted LLM platform for developers and researchers who want to serve chat models on their own hardware and compare their responses. It powers Chatbot Arena and includes a locally hosted side-by-side comparison interface. The Python code is open source under Apache 2.0; model licenses apply separately, including Llama's license for Vicuna.

Ouroboros is a locally installed workflow engine for developers who want to define requirements and check an AI coding agent's output. It runs through a terminal CLI, a Claude Code plugin or an MCP server. Your chosen coding runtime supplies the agent and model access. When used with Claude through Claude Code's standard cloud connection, model requests go to that external service.

Talk DAT! is a free, open-source dictation app for people who want to turn speech into formatted writing across their desktop apps. It runs on Windows 10 and 11 and Apple silicon Macs with macOS 14 or later. Downloaded models let it work offline without an account, keeping speech and text on your computer.

Minutes is a meeting notetaker for people who want searchable records of calls, voice memos and everyday dictation on their own computer. You can read the notes in the app or let an AI assistant search the conversations you choose to share.

Stable Diffusion 1.5 is an AI image generation model for artists and developers who want to create artwork or explore design ideas on their own hardware. It can start with a text prompt or modify an existing picture.

FlashRAG is an open source Python toolkit for researchers and developers comparing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods or building their own. It combines implemented research methods with prepared benchmark datasets and reported results, so experiments don't have to start with a separate codebase for each approach. It uses the MIT license.

Wordflow is an AI writing assistant for writers and researchers who want to reuse editing prompts across their work. Its browser editor lets you revise a paragraph or selected passage with a choice of local and external models.

Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant for developers and teams who want a GitHub Copilot alternative on their own infrastructure. It brings coding suggestions and answers into the editor.

Dyad is a desktop AI app builder for people who want to create web apps from written descriptions while keeping access to the code. It keeps project files on your machine and can work offline when you use local models.

Voxta is an AI companion for people who want a character they can talk to, assign tasks to or use in interactive stories. You choose its personality, voice and optional avatar.

Strix is an AI penetration testing tool for developers and security teams assessing code, web applications and APIs. Its free, open source edition runs locally with Docker under the Apache 2.0 license. It supports local models through Ollama or LM Studio, as well as remote providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic; cloud-backed runs send model requests to the selected provider.

Open-Sora is an AI video generation project for researchers, developers and creators who want to run or adapt a model on their own GPUs. It focuses on animating reference images with text guidance and also accepts text alone.

FunASR is a speech-to-text toolkit for developers building transcription services and voice applications. It supports offline recordings and live speech on local hardware or self-hosted servers, with capabilities that depend on the model and runtime.