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🤖 Free AI Tools and Local LLM Software
Most mainstream AI products want a subscription, an account, and your content on their servers. This category collects AI tools whose core features are free and that do not force a sign-up, prioritizing open source, offline capability and self-hosting. Start here to run models on your own machine or to find free alternatives to ChatGPT and Copilot.
28 tools
Aider
Every AI edit lands as a Git commit you can walk back
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
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A Copilot replacement inside VS Code and JetBrains, with the model your choice
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
eSpeak NG
A few megabytes, over a hundred languages, reading aloud with no network
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
LocalAI
Wraps local models in an OpenAI-shaped API — point your code at a new URL
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Piper
Local neural speech synthesis fast enough for a Raspberry Pi
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
DeepSeek Harness
DeepSeek's open-source agent runtime, where everything is a plugin
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
OpenClaw
An AI assistant that runs on your own machine and meets you in the chat apps you already use
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
OpenCode
An open-source coding agent for the terminal, wired to 75-plus model providers
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
Fooocus
Install-and-go AI image generation with no parameter tuning — development has stopped
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
InvokeAI
AI image generation that feels like real image software — canvas and inpainting in the UI
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
Stable Diffusion WebUI
The most-starred AI image tool — but no longer maintained
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
SwarmUI
A simplified front end over ComfyUI — the engine underneath is still ComfyUI
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
Buzz
Drag a file in and transcribe — batch jobs and multiple export formats
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
faster-whisper
A CTranslate2 Whisper implementation — same models, faster, less VRAM
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
Vibe
The lightest local transcription desktop app — a few dozen MB to install
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
whisper.cpp
Whisper reimplemented in C++ — runs on CPU, no Python required
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
WhisperX
Whisper for subtitles — word-level timestamps and speaker diarization
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
AnythingLLM
Feed your own documents to a local model and get answers from your material
- Open Source
- No Ads
- Offline
- No Sign-up
Chatbox
One window for every model, with conversations stored locally
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
Cline
An open-source AI coding assistant — you choose the model
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
ComfyUI
AI image generation broken into nodes, every step under your control
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Jan
An open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs 100% offline on your own machine
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
LibreChat
Host your own ChatGPT for a household or a whole team
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Self-hostable
llama.cpp
The foundation nearly every local LLM tool is built on
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
LM Studio
Run local LLMs in a desktop GUI — free for personal and commercial use
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
Ollama
Run large language models on your own machine, one command away
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
Open WebUI
A self-hosted web interface for local LLMs, usually placed in front of Ollama
- Self-hostable
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
Upscayl
Enlarge a small blurry image — detail reconstructed, not stretched
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline