20 Cactus alternatives
Cactus: 8-29 MB automation models that run on phones, wearables and microcontrollers — tool calling, structured extraction and embeddings, fully offline. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Local Models, Offline and Open Source, ranked by how much they have in common with Cactus.
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Unsloth AI
Open-source desktop app to run, serve and fine-tune text, image, video and audio models entirely on your own machine.
Also: Fine-tuning, Inference, Local Models, Open Source
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Open-source inference engine that runs LLMs, vision and speech models fully on-device — no API keys, no cloud calls, from Swift to Godot.
Also: Inference, Local Models, Mobile, Open Source
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Menlo Research
An open-source, offline-first ChatGPT alternative that runs models on your own computer.
Also: Local Models, Offline, Open Source
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Osaurus, Inc.
Native macOS harness for AI agents — any model, persistent memory, sandboxed execution and cryptographic identity, fully offline and open source.
Also: Local Models, Offline, Open Source
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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: Inference, Local Models, Open Source
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Inference, fine-tuning, and GPU clusters for open models — the full stack for teams building on open weights.
Also: Fine-tuning, Inference
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A polished desktop app for discovering, running, and chatting with local language models — no terminal required.
Also: Local Models, Offline
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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, Offline
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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, Offline
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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, Offline
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Daniel Saad
On-device Mac dictation, rewriting, translation, and local agent — no cloud, no accounts.
Also: Local Models, Offline
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Anas Ouhdda
Searches the text, speech and faces inside your phone's photos and videos, with every model running on-device — no cloud, no account.
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Bending Spoons
Translate text, websites and objects across 100+ languages, hold voice-to-voice conversations, and keep working offline without roaming charges.
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Duomenu vizija, MB
iPhone app that uses on-device computer vision to count push-ups, squats, sit-ups, and planks in real time.
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Free, open-source Mac dictation: hold a shortcut, speak, and clean text lands in any app. Local speech models, no account.
Also: Offline, Open Source
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The open-source AI hub: over a million models, hundreds of thousands of datasets, and hosted demo Spaces.
Also: Inference, Open Source
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Jun Kim
Menu-bar LLM inference server for Apple Silicon, with continuous batching and tiered KV caching that keeps local models fast enough for real coding work.
Also: Inference, Open Source
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Continue
Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal; acquired by Cursor in 2026 and no longer maintained.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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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: Local Models, Open Source
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Advait Paliwal
Open-source AI research agent with a CLI and a local science workbench for deep literature review, paper retrieval and replication planning.
Also: Local Models, Open Source