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24 alternatives to Eron

Portable Ollama instance for working with your own Al

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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    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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    Chat with AI using your API keys. Pay only for what you use. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other LLMs supported. The best chat LLM frontend UI for all AI models.

    2023 · typingmind.com · 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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    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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    AgentSea▲439

    Today we’re excited to introduce AgentSea, a private AI chat built for sensitive work. When you use closed-source AI models, your data can: – be stored – pulled into training pipelines – shared with third parties That might be fine if you’re making memes or drafting LinkedIn posts. But it becomes a serious risk when you’re pasting contracts, health info, financial data, or business secrets. That’s why we built AgentSea. In Secure Mode, all chats run on open-source models or models hosted on our own servers. Your data never leaves, is never used for training, and is never leaked. Agentsea…

    2025 · agentsea.com · its alternatives →

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    Chaton▲88

    1:1 video chat P2P open source

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted chat for small teams.

    2015 · sdelements.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Like Slack, but opensource and self-hosted.

    2015 · sdelements.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, We have been building SecureAI Tools -- an open-source application layer for ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools. It works with locally running LLMs as well as with OpenAI-compatible APIs. For local LLMs, it supports Ollama which supports all the gguf/ggml models. Currently, it has two features: Chat-with-LLM, and Chat-with-PDFs. It is optimized for self-hosting use cases and comes with basic user management features. Here are some quick demos: * Chat with documents using OpenAI's GPT3.5 model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2D3G9O47s * Chat with documents…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Local AI coding assistant for your terminal using Ollama

    Mar 2026 · billysh.online · its alternatives →

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    with reasoning and ollama support

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    I’ve been building a small hardware box that runs local LLMs like Mistral, Qwen and Llama, and exposes an OpenAI compatible API on your local network. There’s no cloud, no login system and no telemetry. I built it because a lot of small firms want ChatGPTbstyle tools but can’t use cloud AI for privacy or compliance reasons, and most don’t want to deal with GPU servers, drivers, Docker or model configs. The aim is to make local AI feel as simple as plugging in a router. Right now the box boots into a very simple web UI where you choose a model and start using it. The API follows the OpenAI…

    Nov 2025 · axis-one-psi.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Open-source, serverless, multi-LLM group chat application

    Jun 2026 · xescapevelocity.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Kept▲104

    Your AI chats, saved as Markdown locally with no cloud

    May 2026 · kept.work · its alternatives →

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    We were building an agent system and wanted email as a trigger. We decided to take it out and made it a standalone service. The primary email features we wanted and used for our own agent system: 1. Email threading stays consistent with agent conversation threading 2. Human in the loop review for outbound emails (especially during testing phase) 3. Quick onboarding/offboarding email addresses for agents within minutes 4. Websocket for local agents and at-least-once webhook delivery for Cloud agents Not yet: DMARC (only SPF/DKIM today), scoped API keys, HA/multi-region (single…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chat▲88

    turn your backend into a chat app instantly

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Olark 2.0▲110

    Olark is easy to use live chat software

    2018 · olark.com · its alternatives →

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    ai-o▲92

    Browse the web and chat with AI, side by side

    2024 · ai-o-app.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Lapis▲79

    Secure, offline AI chat assistant on your device

    Nov 2025 · lapis.lvrpiz.com · its alternatives →

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    Alora▲24

    Your user-controlled memory that syncs across AI tools

    2025 · alora.website · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built Lambda ERP, an open-source ERP prototype where chat is the primary interface. It handles sales/purchase flows, invoices, payments, inventory, double-entry accounting, reports, and chat-generated analytics. There’s a live demo in the README with 3 years of simulated data, plus a Docker Compose setup if you want to run it locally. It is not production-ready yet; I’m looking for feedback on the architecture, the chat-first workflow, and whether this direction makes sense for small teams that can’t afford traditional ERP implementation projects.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatOSS is built on Ollama. If you use Ollama, ChatOSS local works out of the box. ChatOSS is a GUI desktop app that has multiple agentic coding apps and a kanban board integrated into coding sessions. There's also a simple way to create your own AI powered apps that can run inside of ChatOSS.

    Aug 2026 · chatoss.ai · its alternatives →

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    Chat with local LLMs — right inside your browser

    2025 · shishir435.github.io · its alternatives →

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