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AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Wallie V2

Open-source AI that watches and hears your screen and reacts live as any personality you design — for faceless content, autonomous AI streams, and real-time commentary. Runs locally on your own keys. - Alradyin/wallie-V2

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    AI avatars 9X faster, 4X expressive range w/, human fidelity

    Nov 2025 · avaturn.live · its alternatives →

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    Dograh▲599

    The open source VAPI alternative

    Aug 2026 · dograh.com · its alternatives →

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    Ojin▲106

    Talk to an AI Agent with a real face and voice, in real time

    Aug 2026 · ojin.ai · its alternatives →

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    OpenHuman▲549

    An open source AI harness built with the human in mind

    May 2026 · tinyhumans.ai · its alternatives →

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    Talkie AI▲284

    The most immersive experience with all your dream characters

    2024 · talkie-ai.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenBotfree▲362

    Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer

    24d ago · openbot.run · its alternatives →

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    The Live AI DeepFake

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chert▲210

    Vapi for FaceTime: AI video agents in a few lines

    Aug 2026 · trychert.com · its alternatives →

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    AI Avatars with natural expressions and perfect lipsync

    2025 · creatorkit.com · its alternatives →

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    1. In the US, about 1/5 children are hospitalized each year that don’t have a caregiver. Caregiver such as play therapists and parents’ stress can also affect children's emotions. 2. Not everyone is good at making friends and not everyone has a BFF to talk to. Imagine you're having a hard time in life or at work, and you can't tell your parents or friends. So, we built an open-source project Starmoon and are using affordable hardware components to bring AI characters to real-word objects like toys and plushies to help people emotional growth. We believe this is a complement tool and it…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create a free chatbot for your website without coding

    2019 · artibot.ai · 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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    Beni AI▲78

    Hi HN, I built Beni (https://thebeni.ai ), a web app for real-time video calls with an AI companion. The idea started as a pretty simple question: text chatbots are everywhere, but they rarely feel present. I wanted something closer to a call, where the character actually reacts in real time (voice, timing, expressions), not just “type, wait, reply”. Beni is basically: A Live2D avatar that animates during the call (expressions + motion driven by the conversation) Real-time voice conversation (streaming response, not “wait 10 seconds then speak”) Long-term memory so the character…

    Feb 2026 · thebeni.ai · its alternatives →

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    Your fantasy, your way

    2023 · talkie-ai.com · 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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    Hi I'm Dan from Elodin, making an open source real-time capable flight software simulation. For AI Grand Prix contestants, the wait for the Round 1 virtual qualifier simulation has been grueling. If you’re competing, check out our simulation harness to tide you over, built to match the published competition constraints and message format. It runs against real Betaflight, which we learned requires at least 1000 sensor samples per second to run real-time correctly. The competition warranted introducing a new feature to generate the camera sensor directly in the simulation loop. Typically…

    May 2026 · elodin.systems · its alternatives →

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    Virtual production-ready facial animation in real time

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Rep.ai▲37

    Human + AI Live Video Chat. Turn Traffic Into Conversations.

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Realtime lifelike interactive avatars for conversational AI

    Nov 2025 · liveavatar.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN folks ! I am the author of AVA, a self hosted AI Voice Agent that plugs into Asterisk/Freepbx so you own all the aspects of an AI Voice agent in your own infrastructure. It uses Asterisk native Audiosocket/RTP with python engine to run STT,LLM and TTS loop. The project support several full providers openai, gemini, grok, elevenlabs out of the box and also provides options to build custom pipelines by choosing different stt tts and llm. It also supports full local agent if you have a GPU with 25GB RAM which enables realtime conversation along with tool calling. I started this…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I've been working with a few friends on this app that lets you do real-time video chats with your new best AI friend named Annie. We just released the first version for iOS, you can find the download link on https://callannie.ai You can find a video demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MV2mjjQFSU Annie can help as a tutor on any topic, chat about your day, or help you practice any conversation. She can also check the weather and perform basic web searches. The original image of Annie's face was generated with Midjourney, and her expressions and…

    2023 · callannie.ai · its alternatives →

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    open-source AI chat that renders responses as visual blocks

    Feb 2026 · sketchvibe.app · its alternatives →

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    Bot/Agent Chat that scores guests in real-time (Free 4 Life)

    Dec 2025 · its alternatives →

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