20 SillyTavern alternatives
SillyTavern: A free, open-source local interface for chatting with character cards on any LLM backend, with lorebooks, group chats, image generation and TTS. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Open Source, Local Models and Chatbot, ranked by how much they have in common with SillyTavern.
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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, Open Source, Self-Hosted
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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, Open Source
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Cloudflare
Open-source AI workspace you deploy into your own Cloudflare account: agent chat wired to company context, sandboxed app building, and policy guardrails.
Also: Chatbot, Open Source, Self-Hosted
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Glimpse AI
An AI companion with short- and long-term memory that chats, sends voice messages and selfies, and roleplays stories alone or in multi-character group chats.
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Beautifully Incorporated
An AI companion app where you design a character's personality, backstory, voice and look, then chat, call or roleplay with it across long-term memory.
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Create and chat with millions of user-made AI characters — the largest conversational roleplay community on the internet.
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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: 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 polished desktop app for discovering, running, and chatting with local language models — no terminal required.
Also: Chatbot, Local Models
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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, Open Source
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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: 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: Local Models, Open Source
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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, 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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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
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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, 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, Open Source
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OpenClaw Foundation
Open-source personal AI assistant that runs on your own machine and answers from WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage and 25 other chat apps.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted
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Open-source voice AI platform you can self-host — a visual workflow builder, bring-your-own STT/LLM/TTS models, telephony, and no per-minute platform lock-in.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted
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All Hands AI
OpenHands — the leading open-source coding agent platform, self-hostable or run in the cloud.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted