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Chat Assistants

General-purpose AI chat assistants and conversational interfaces.

6 tools

AnythingLLM

Mintplex Labs

All-in-one desktop and server application for private AI chat over your documents. Built-in RAG, agents and multi-user support; works with local models via Ollama or with cloud providers.

Open source
Local-first
Privacy-first
Self-hostable

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GPT4All

Nomic AI

Desktop application from Nomic for running open LLMs locally on consumer hardware, with private chat and LocalDocs for asking questions about your own files without data leaving your machine.

Open source
Local-first
Privacy-first

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Jan

Menlo Research

Recommended

Open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs 100 percent offline on your computer. Desktop app for downloading and chatting with local models, with optional connections to cloud providers.

Open source
Local-first
Privacy-first
Self-hostable

[ Chat Assistants ][ Local Inference ]

LibreChat

Danny Avila (@danny-avila)

Self-hostable, open-source chat UI supporting many providers and local models, with agents, MCP, search and multi-user auth. Bring your own keys; data stays on your server.

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LM Studio

Desktop app for discovering, downloading and running local LLMs such as Llama, Qwen and Gemma. Includes a chat interface and an OpenAI-compatible local server. Free to use but not open source.

Local-first
Privacy-first

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Open WebUI

Recommended

Self-hosted web interface for AI chat that works with Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs. Supports RAG, web search, image generation and multi-user setups, and is designed to operate fully offline.

Open source
Local-first
Privacy-first
Self-hostable

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