20 Ollama alternatives
Ollama: Run open language models on your own machine with a single command — no cloud, no API key, no data leaving the laptop. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Local Models, Offline and Privacy, ranked by how much they have in common with Ollama.
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Menlo Research
An open-source, offline-first ChatGPT alternative that runs models on your own computer.
Also: Local Models, Offline, Privacy
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A polished desktop app for discovering, running, and chatting with local language models — no terminal required.
Also: Local Models, Offline, 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, Offline, 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, Offline, Privacy
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Daniel Saad
On-device Mac dictation, rewriting, translation, and local agent — no cloud, no accounts.
Also: Local Models, Offline, Privacy
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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: CLI, Local Models, Privacy
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Cactus Compute, Inc.
8-29 MB automation models that run on phones, wearables and microcontrollers — tool calling, structured extraction and embeddings, fully offline.
Also: Local Models, Offline
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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
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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Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal; acquired by Cursor in 2026 and no longer maintained.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: CLI, Local Models
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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: CLI, Local Models
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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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Free, open-source Mac dictation: hold a shortcut, speak, and clean text lands in any app. Local speech models, no account.
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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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Brave
Brave's built-in browser assistant that summarizes pages and PDFs, with Brave Search grounding and bring-your-own-model support.
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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AgentCall
Free, fully on-device voice loop for AI coding agents — talk to Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and hear them answer back out loud.
Also: Developers, Offline
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Anthropic
Anthropic's agentic coding tool — a terminal-native agent that reads your codebase, edits files, runs tests, and opens PRs.
Also: CLI, Developers
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Meta
Meta's terminal coding agent for long-horizon work in large repositories, running the Muse Spark 1.2 model with parallel subagents and a replayable event log.
Also: CLI, Developers
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Agentic AI Foundation
Open-source AI agent from the Agentic AI Foundation — a native desktop app, CLI and API that runs tasks locally with 70+ MCP extensions.
Also: CLI, Developers
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Mario Zechner
Minimal, MIT-licensed terminal coding agent that adapts to your workflow via TypeScript extensions.
Also: CLI, Developers