20 Brave Leo alternatives
Brave Leo: Brave's built-in browser assistant that summarizes pages and PDFs, with Brave Search grounding and bring-your-own-model support. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Privacy, Local Models and Browser, ranked by how much they have in common with Brave Leo.
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A polished desktop app for discovering, running, and chatting with local language models — no terminal required.
Also: Chatbot, Local Models, Privacy
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Subscription search engine with no ads or tracking, per-site ranking controls, Lenses, Quick Answer and a multi-model AI assistant.
Also: Chatbot, Privacy, Summarization
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DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo's anonymized chat with Claude, GPT, Mistral and open models (formerly DuckDuckGo AI Chat); free, no account needed.
Also: Chatbot, Privacy, Summarization
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Aside Computer Inc.
AI browser that runs real tasks inside your logged-in accounts, with credentials sealed in an on-device vault the agent never reads.
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An open-source desktop AI client that talks to every major provider and your local models from one window.
Also: Chatbot, Local Models
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EGOIST
A fast, local-first desktop AI chat client that works with GPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models, with markdown and LaTeX rendering, web search, image generation, and MCP tool support.
Also: Chatbot, Local Models
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A self-hosted, feature-rich chat interface that puts a polished front end on Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible API.
Also: Chatbot, Local Models
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Open-source local inference server that profiles your hardware, picks models that fit, and points your coding agent at them — free, private and offline.
Also: Local Models, Privacy
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Privacy-first voice to text for macOS, Windows, and iOS — runs offline on-device with customisable AI modes.
Also: Local Models, Privacy
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Mintplex Labs
An all-in-one private AI workspace: chat with your documents, run agents, and keep everything on your device.
Also: Local Models, Privacy
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Menlo Research
An open-source, offline-first ChatGPT alternative that runs models on your own computer.
Also: Local Models, Privacy
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Run open language models on your own machine with a single command — no cloud, no API key, no data leaving the laptop.
Also: Local Models, Privacy
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System-wide AI autocomplete for macOS that finishes your sentences in any app — fully on-device, no account, no cloud.
Also: Local Models, Privacy
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Daniel Saad
On-device Mac dictation, rewriting, translation, and local agent — no cloud, no accounts.
Also: Local Models, Privacy
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Local-first meeting and interview recorder that transcribes, labels speakers and writes up your notes entirely on your own computer, for a one-time price.
Also: Privacy, Summarization
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Perplexity
Perplexity's agentic browser, where an assistant sits beside every tab and can act on the pages you are looking at.
Also: Browser
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Felafax, Inc.
Free, open-source desktop browser that coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor drive using your real logged-in accounts.
Also: Browser
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Purike
Browser-based AI music studio that turns a text prompt or your own lyrics into finished royalty-free tracks.
Also: Browser
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Free browser-based AI inpainting tool that erases people, objects, text and watermarks from photos, then fills the gap.
Also: Browser
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Frances Staken
Browser-based AI photo editor combining background removal, magic eraser and 4K upscaling with Nano Banana image generation.
Also: Browser