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24 alternatives to Billy.sh

Local AI coding assistant for your terminal using Ollama

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    The easiest way to chat with local AI

    2025 · ollama.com · its alternatives →

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    1Code▲569

    Just to clarify the background a bit. This project wasn’t planned as a big standalone release at first. On January 16, Ollama added support for an Anthropic-compatible API, and I was curious how far this could be pushed in practice. I decided to try plugging local Ollama models directly into a Claude Code-style workflow and see if it would actually work end to end. Here is the release note from Ollama that made this possible: https://ollama.com/blog/claude Technically, what I do is pretty straightforward: - Detect which local models are available in Ollama. - When…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    opencode▲393

    Your terminal's AI agent, with any model you want

    2025 · opencode.ai · its alternatives →

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    Massive local model speedup on Apple Silicon with MLX

    Apr 2026 · ollama.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi Hackers, Excited to share a macOS app I've been working on: https://recurse.chat/ for chatting with local AI. While it's amazing that you can run AI models locally quite easily these days (through llama.cpp / llamafile / ollama / llm CLI etc.), I missed feature complete chat interfaces. Tools like LMStudio are super powerful, but there's a learning curve to it. I'd like to hit a middleground of simplicity and customizability for advanced users. Here's what separates RecurseChat out from similar apps: - UX designed for you to use local AI as a daily driver.…

    2024 · recurse.chat · its alternatives →

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    Ai-powered terminal assistant

    2025 · shellsage.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Complete AI Platform: RAG Systems & Intelligent Agents for Local AI

    2025 · rlama.dev · its alternatives →

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    Omnara▲436

    Claude Code in your Pocket

    2025 · omnara.com · its alternatives →

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    AI pair programming directly in your terminal

    2025 · cosine.sh · its alternatives →

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    Ollamac▲205

    A macOS app for interacting with the Ollama models

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Always Googling those pesky Terminal commands? Use AI to find the commands for you from within the command line.

    2022 · oh-heck.dev · its alternatives →

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    Ollama▲235

    The easiest way to run large language models locally

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Local voice chatbot for engaging conversations, powered by Ollama, Hugging Face Transformers, and Coqui TTS Toolkit - mezbaul-h/june

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bob's CLI▲151

    A local-first AI coding CLI that adapts to you

    Jun 2026 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Epho▲156

    Hey folks, Burak here. Epho is an API that allows running Claude Code, Codex or Opencode in a sandbox in the cloud. It abstracts away sandboxes, and allows running coding agents with a single HTTP request. Epho came out of our own struggles with building our own AI analyst: - Sandboxes give you bare machines; you need to configure them for agentic workloads. - Each agent behaves differently, and you need to build integrations with each of them. - Sandbox providers are not very reliable, which means you need to figure out a multi-provider strategy to avoid failures. - Logging, artifacts,…

    Aug 2026 · epho.io · its alternatives →

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    RLAMA▲138

    Open-Source RAG CLI for Ollama

    2025 · rlama.dev · its alternatives →

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    Noeth▲74

    The coding interview AI that lets you bring your own API key

    May 2026 · noeth.dev · its alternatives →

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    Eron▲140

    Portable Ollama instance for working with your own Al

    Mar 2026 · henningwinter.com · its alternatives →

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    BU▲138

    Openclaw in the cloud

    Mar 2026 · cloud.browser-use.com · its alternatives →

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    VEXI▲94

    Open-source AI coding agent for your terminal

    Jun 2026 · vexi.pro · its alternatives →

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    Private local AI coding agent for Ollama

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Documentation compiler for humans and machines. One Markdown source to website, search, AI context, and knowledge formats together. - docmd-io/docmd

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN. This is a script I have been using for some time for coding tasks, which I have polished a bit and published. The motivation behind this script was to have an agent with persistent session which I can use from the shell like a regular command. It _can_ also be scripted, although I don't use it in such a way. The script uses a minimal prompt, which just tells it to use standard unix tools to do everything. I was surprised at how well it worked, when using a good model. Qwen3-coder is on openrouter, and it works well with the minimal instructions. I also tested qwen2.5-coder with ollama…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm excited to introduce OllaMan, a desktop application designed to streamline your workflow with Ollama local AI models. If you're already using Ollama, you've likely experienced its power in running large language models (LLMs) locally. However, managing models, switching between them, and engaging in conversations often requires frequent command-line interaction, which can be inefficient and less intuitive for many users. OllaMan aims to solve these pain points by providing an intuitive and elegant graphical user interface (GUI), especially tailored for macOS users, adhering to…

    2025 · ollaman.com · its alternatives →

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