AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to LlamaChat
Chat with your favourite LLaMA models right on your Mac
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. LlamaChat launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Excited to launch a side-project that I've been working on over the past few weeks, LlamaChat: an open-source SwiftUI app which allows you to chat with your local LLaMA models right on your Mac. Powered by the excellent llama.cpp (and Swift wrapper, llama.swift), LlamaChat allows you to import your local LLaMA models (and Alpaca, GPT4All, and soon, Vicuna and Koala) and interact with them locally.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Llamao▲496Private & offline alternative to ChatGPT on your device
2025 · llamao.app · 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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Ollama▲235The easiest way to run large language models locally
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ChatLLaMA is an experimental chatbot interface for interacting with variants of Facebook's LLaMA. Currently, we support the 7 billion parameter variant that was fine-tuned on the Alpaca dataset. This early versions isn't as conversational as we'd like, but over the next week or so, we're planning on adding support for the 30 billion parameter variant, another variant fine-tuned on LAION's OpenAssistant dataset and more as we explore what this model is capable of. If you want deploy your own instance is the model powering the chatbot and build something similar we've open sourced the Truss…
2023 · chatllama.baseten.co · its alternatives →
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A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device. New: Code Llama support! - getumbrel/llama-gpt
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Locally run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM . Contribute to antimatter15/alpaca.cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I spent the last few days building out a nicer ChatGPT-like interface to use Mistral 7B and Llama 3 fully within a browser (no deps and installs). I’ve used the WebLLM project by MLC AI for a while to interact with LLMs in the browser when handling sensitive data but I found their UI quite lacking for serious use so I built a much better interface around WebLLM. I’ve been using it as a therapist and coach. And it’s wonderful knowing that my personal information never leaves my local computer. Should work on Desktop with Chrome or Edge. Other browsers are adding WebGPU support as well - see…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ModelHub▲317The missing menu bar app for local LLMs on Mac.
May 2026 · studio.consciousengines.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN A few folks and I have been working on this project for a couple weeks now. After previously working on the Docker project for a number of years (both on the container runtime and image registry side), the recent rise in open source language models made us think something similar needed to exist for large language models too. While not exactly the same as running linux containers, running LLMs shares quite a few of the same challenges. There are "base layers" (e.g. models like Llama 2), specific configuration to run correctly (parameters, temperature, context window sizes etc). There's…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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High-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B parameter GPT model - shawwn/llama-dl
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi folks, we're Debanjum and Saba. We created Khoj as a hobby project 2+ years ago because: (1) Search on the desktop sucked; we just had keyword search on the desktop vs google for the internet; and (2) Natural language search models had become good and easy to run on consumer hardware by this point. Once we made Khoj search incremental, I completely stopped using the default incremental search (C-s) in Emacs. Since then Khoj has grown to support more content types, deeper integrations and chat (using ChatGPT). With Llama 2 released last week, chat models are finally good and easy enough to…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've been thinking about the idea of a LLM thats a clone of me - instead of generating replies to be a helpful assistant, it generates replies that are exactly like mine. The concept's appeared in fiction numerous times (the talking paintings in Harry Potter that mimic the person painted, the clones in The Prestige), and I think with LLMs, there might actually be a possibility of us doing something like this! I've just released a fork of the facebookresearch/llama-recipes which allows you to fine-tune a Llama model on your personal WhatsApp conversations. This adaptation can…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MyGPT by SamurAI▲526Access to plugins without ChatGPT Plus
2023 · chatgptplugins.thesamur.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Code Llama was released, but we noticed a ton of questions in the main thread about how/where to use it — not just from an API or the terminal, but in your own codebase as a drop-in replacement for Copilot Chat. Without this, developers don't get much utility from the model. This concern is also important because benchmarks like HumanEval don't perfectly reflect the quality of responses. There's likely to be a flurry of improvements to coding models in the coming months, and rather than relying on the benchmarks to evaluate them, the community will get better feedback from people…
2023 · continue.dev · its alternatives →
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Llama 4▲422A new era of natively multimodal AI innovation
2025 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Llama▲3123.1-405B: an open source model to rival GPT-4o / Claude-3.5
2024 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Llama 2▲263The next generation of Meta's open source LLM
2023 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, we created a ChatGPT alternative for anyone to try out LLaMA models and benchmark responses across OpenAI's models and other open source models. Would love some feedback! No data is being used for retraining models.
2023 · chat.nbox.ai · its alternatives →
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Let Llama take over your desktop
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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