Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Piko
Free, open-source Claude context with privacy-first BYOK
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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AI Toolbox 3.0▲434AI Toolbox (formerly ChatGPT Toolbox): folders, search, bulk export, and prompt chaining for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. 40,000+ users. Start free.
Jul 2026 · ai-toolbox.co · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built this out of frustration of the evergrowing list of AI models and features to try and to fit my workflow. The visual approach clicks for me so i went with it, it provides more freedom and control of the outcome, because predictable results and increased productivity is what I’m after when using conversational AI. The app is packed with features, my most used are prompt library, voice input and text search, narration is useful too. The app is local-first and works right in the browser, no sign up needed and it's absolutely free to try. BYOAK – bring your own API Keys. Let me…
2024 · grafychat.com · its alternatives →
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Pika▲291A free, open-source colour picker app for macOS
2021 · superhighfives.com · its alternatives →
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OP here. I built this because I recently caught myself almost pasting a block of logs containing AWS keys into Claude. The Problem: I need the reasoning capabilities of cloud models (GPT/Claude/Gemini), but I can't trust myself not to accidentally leak PII or secrets. The Solution: A Chrome extension that acts as a local middleware. It intercepts the prompt and runs a local BERT model (via a Python FastAPI backend) to scrub names, emails, and keys before the request leaves the browser. A few notes up front (to set expectations clearly): Everything runs 100% locally. Regex detection…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Local meeting transcription with no account needed
Jun 2026 · hirekai.ai · its alternatives →
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Pi Coding Agent▲176A new Emacs mode for AI-assisted coding (Claude Code style), with native Emacs buffers instead of a flickering terminal. Built on top of pi, a no-bs open source Claude Code alternative. It supports Claude, GPT, Gemini, Ollama. I've been using it daily for weeks. Demo video that says more than $NUMBER words: https://danielnouri.org/media/pi-coding-agent-demo.mp4 The key decision here is that we have two separate windows: chat history is a markdown-mode buffer, with beautiful rendering, unlimted scrollback, selective tool expansion where it matters, etc. The input window…
May 2026 · pi.dev · its alternatives →
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Supercharge your Email, Twitter, and Web with ChatGPT
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Chrome extension allow the user to communicate with the AI
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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YourAIScroll▲116Export and manage your AI chat history from Grok, Deepseek, Gemini and more. Save conversations including ChatGPT Canvas, Claude Artifacts.
2025 · youraiscroll.com · its alternatives →
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Using the new Prompt API to build a free open source privacy-first chat extension that runs on Chrome or Edge on Linux, Mac, Windows and ChromeOS
2025 · blog.alexewerlof.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, We are the team behind Tabstack (https://tabstack.ai) - part of Mozilla. We just open sourced Pilo (pronounce PIE-low), the core engine that powers our automation platform. You can check it out on Github at https://github.com/mozilla/pilo. Pilo is an agentic web automation library. Instead of writing rigid scripts with CSS selectors, you give it a natural language goal (e.g., "Find the best pizza in Seattle and extract the ratings") and it autonomously navigates the browser to achieve it. We built this because we were struggling to make reliable agents…
Feb 2026 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m one of the maintainers of Bridge Anonymization. We built this because the existing solutions for translating sensitive user content are insufficient for many of our privacy-concious clients (Governments, Banks, Healthcare, etc.). We couldn't send PII to third-party APIs, but standard redaction destroyed the translation quality. If you scrub "John" to "[PERSON]", the translation engine loses gender context (often defaulting to masculine), which breaks grammatical agreement in languages like French or German. So we built a reversible, local-first pipeline for Node.js/Bun. Here…
Dec 2025 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Free alternative to claude for chrome extension
2025 · claudechrome.com · its alternatives →
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As I started to use Claude Code to do more random tasks I realized I could basically build any CLI tool and it would use it. So I built one that controls the browser and open-sourced it. It should work with Codex or any other CLI-based agent! I have a long term idea where the models are all local and then the tool is privacy preserving because it's easy to remove PII from text, but I'd definitely not recommend using this for anything important just yet. You'll need a Gemini key until I (or someone else) figure out how to distill a local version out of that part of the pipeline. Github link:…
2025 · cli-agents.click · its alternatives →
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AI Buddy▲4This is a weekend project I created due to my frustration with the classic terminal applications that have the issue that if I restart my Mac, then my Claude Code instances or my shell instances—are stopped, and I have to manually run them again. Plus, they are not quite optimized for running multiple Claude Code instances, so I created this project to address this issue.
Jun 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone, This past Saturday, I decided to make purchase on Cursor after hearing how good it is with Composer function that allow to generate code on fly, especially on Claude Sonnet (not an affiliate of the products, just curious!). To make the purchase worthwhile, I challenged myself to build a Google Sheets extension in just 24 hours that allows users to connect with any Language Model (LLM)—whether it’s ChatGPT, Claude, Groq, or Gemini. The Idea The idea was simple: a formula like =Claude(prompt, model) that lets users integrate AI anywhere in their sheets. The most impressive…
2024 · aisheeter.com · its alternatives →
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A CLI tool to build beautiful rich text command-line interfaces with type validation. - Andarius/piou
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AI ChatHub▲11Free Chrome and Edge extension for chatting with multiple AI models at once. Compare ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and more side by side.
Nov 2025 · aichathub.net · its alternatives →
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I built a small Chrome extension for people who write long conversations in Claude and don’t want to unexpectedly hit the 200,000-token limit. Context Compass automatically counts words and estimates token usage as you write. It updates in real time, gives you a visible percentage bar, and helps power users manage sprawling chats without losing work or flow. I built it because I kept getting the “max context” error and realized there was no way to track usage in Claude. No signups, no tracking, just a simple install. Would love any feedback or ideas for improvements. Thanks!
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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