123 open-source AI desktop apps
Open Source AI Desktop Apps & LLM Clients
The most popular open-source AI desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux on GitHub are Ollama, Cc Switch and NextChat. appsgit lists 123, each with its platforms, license and install commands.
Updated Oct 8, 2026
Open Source AI Desktop Apps & LLM Clients
Ollama
ollama/ollama
Get up and running with Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.
OfficialAI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxCc Switch
farion1231/cc-switch
A cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Grok Build & Hermes Agent.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxNextChat
ChatGPTNextWeb/NextChat
Zero-config AI chat assistant. No API key needed — sign up and instantly chat with GPT-5, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, DeepSeek & 100+ top models.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxPake
tw93/Pake
🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxCherry Studio
CherryHQ/cherry-studio
AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxChatbox
chatboxai/chatbox
Your Ultimate AI Copilot on the Desktop. Chatbox is a desktop client for ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs, available on Windows, Mac, Linux.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxOpenhuman
tinyhumansai/openhuman
OpenHuman is the fastest, cheapest, most efficient open-source agent harness.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxOmlx
jundot/omlx
LLM inference server with continuous batching & SSD caching for Apple Silicon — managed from the macOS menu bar.
AI desktop appsmacOSCodexBar
steipete/CodexBar
Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, without having to login.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxBuzz
chidiwilliams/buzz
Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxCc Haha
NanmiCoder/cc-haha
Local-first cross-platform desktop workspace for Claude Code / agents: multi-agent, Git worktrees, code diffs, skill marketplace, multi-model, Computer Use, task-aware desktop pets, with WeChat…
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxEasydict
tisfeng/Easydict
一个简洁优雅的词典翻译 macOS App。开箱即用,支持离线 OCR 识别,支持有道词典, 苹果系统词典, 苹果系统翻译,OpenAI,Gemini,DeepL,Google,Bing,腾讯,百度,阿里,小牛,彩云和火山翻译。A concise and elegant Dictionary and Translator macOS App for looking up words and…
AI desktop appsmacOSClaudecodeui
siteboon/claudecodeui
Use Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor CLI, and Codex on mobile and web with CloudCLI (aka Claude Code UI).
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSBrowserOS
browseros-ai/BrowserOS
The open-source Agentic browser; alternative to ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Dia.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxCodeburn
getagentseal/codeburn
Free, local tool to track AI coding token usage and cost across 37 tools and agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini and more), by model, project, and task.
OfficialAI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxUFO
microsoft/UFO
UFO³: Weaving the Digital Agent Galaxy.
OfficialAI desktop appsWindowsLinuxOpenwhispr
OpenWhispr/openwhispr
Voice-to-text dictation app with local (Nvidia Parakeet/Whisper) and cloud models (BYOK).
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxStabilityMatrix
LykosAI/StabilityMatrix
Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion.
OfficialAI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxScc
boyter/scc
Sloc, Cloc and Code: scc is a very fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates written in pure Go.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxMunder Difflin
HarnessMD/munder-difflin
an open-source alternative to the dots, bots and muses of the world, run an office of claude code/codex like agents on your laptop, sandboxes or anywhere, uses your existing subscriptions.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxOpen Codesign
OpenCoworkAI/open-codesign
Open-source Claude Design alternative. One-click import your Claude Code / Codex API key.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxMochiDiffusion
MochiDiffusion/MochiDiffusion
Run Stable Diffusion on Mac natively.
AI desktop appsmacOSDayflow
JerryZLiu/Dayflow
The automatic work journal/time tracker. Privately turns your screen into a timeline of what you actually accomplished.
AI desktop appsmacOSBoxplayer
gaozhangmin/boxplayer
BoxPlayer - 聚合网盘管理+影视聚合 支持 Windows Linux iOS macOS tvOS Android.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxClawd On Desk
rullerzhou-afk/clawd-on-desk
A pixel desktop pet that watches Claude Code, Codex, Cursor & other AI coding agents — so you don't have to.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxDeepchat
ThinkInAIXYZ/deepchat
DeepChat - A smart assistant that connects powerful AI to your personal world.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxCopilotForXcode
github/CopilotForXcode
GitHub Copilot for Xcode is the leading AI coding assistant for Swift, Objective-C and iOS/macOS development.
OfficialAI desktop appsmacOSLobsterAI
netease-youdao/LobsterAI
Open-source, desktop-grade AI agent that gets real work done — data analysis, slides, docs, video & web research.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxMaka
apache/maka
Apache Maka (Incubating) is a high-performance agent workspace that keeps a complete record of everything it did.
OfficialAI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxMineContext
volcengine/MineContext
MineContext is your proactive context-aware AI partner(Context-Engineering+ChatGPT Pulse).
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSOpen Science
aipoch/open-science
The open-source AI research workbench for scientific research and agent workflows.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxPeekaboo
openclaw/Peekaboo
Peekaboo is a macOS CLI & optional MCP server that enables AI agents to capture screenshots of applications, or the entire system, with optional visual question answering through local or remote AI…
AI desktop appsmacOSTransformerlab App
transformerlab/transformerlab-app
The open source research environment for AI researchers to seamlessly train, evaluate, and scale models from local hardware to GPU clusters.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxAliens Eye
arxhr007/Aliens_eye
Hunt down 840+ social media accounts using AI.
AI desktop appsLinuxChat On Steroids
totec448-spec/chat-on-steroids
Cross-platform local MCP capabilities for ChatGPT with Chrome integration, Goal, Compact & Resume, and durable multi-agent workflows.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxSkill Recorder
microsoft/skill-recorder
Desktop app that records your on-screen work session and uses the GitHub Copilot SDK to reconstruct it as an intent + ordered steps, then builds a reusable Skill or Automation for Microsoft…
OfficialAI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxOpenMausBot
milind-soni/OpenMausBot
Open-source Grok Bot alternative with a virtual machine that bots can use.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxCoucou
Louis-CFM/coucou
A tiny friend in your Mac's notch and on your iPhone that keeps an eye on your AI coding agents: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Antigravity and more.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxClaude Devtools
matt1398/claude-devtools
The missing DevTools for Claude Code — inspect session logs, tool calls, token usage, subagents, and context window in a visual UI.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxCodex Desktop Linux
ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux
Unofficial ChatGPT desktop app for Linux (formerly the Codex app), built locally from OpenAI’s official macOS app.
AI desktop appsLinuxCodeg
spacering-net/codeg
Collaborative multi-agent AI coding workspace: aggregate sessions from Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Grok Build, etc.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxTutti
tutti-os/tutti
Where people and agents build in tune.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSCodex App Mirror
Wangnov/codex-app-mirror
原样镜像官方 Codex 桌面应用:每 15 分钟探测、SHA256 可校验、国内直连下载、 Mac 可增量更新 | Verbatim, verifiable mirror of the official Codex desktop app — probed every 15 min, with a Sparkle delta-update feed.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxGithubStarsManager
AmintaCCCP/GithubStarsManager
AI-powered GitHub stars manager with semantic search, auto-categorization, and release tracking.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxMaestro
RunMaestro/Maestro
Agent Orchestration Command Center.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxRakazo
elie222/rakazo
Open-source Grok Bot alternative. Choose your own model and sandbox.
AI desktop appsmacOSLinuxAny Auto Register
lxf746/any-auto-register
Auto-register & manage accounts for ChatGPT, Cursor, Kiro, Grok, Windsurf, Trae & 13+ AI platforms · Protocol/browser dual-mode · Plugin-based · One-click Mac/Windows desktop app.
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSSidekick
johnbean393/Sidekick
A native macOS app that allows users to chat with a local LLM that can respond with information from files, folders and websites on your Mac without installing any other software.
AI desktop appsmacOS
Showing the top 48 of 123 by GitHub stars. Every entry is listed in the sitemap and the JSON API.
What are the best open-source AI desktop apps?
By GitHub stars, Ollama is the most popular (182,515 stars), followed by Cc Switch and NextChat. Each page lists the platforms, license and last commit.
Which of these run on Windows, Mac and Linux?
101 of the 123 open-source AI desktop apps listed here run on Windows, 110 on macOS and 85 on Linux; on a Mac, the most starred is Ollama. 30 can be installed with a package manager such as Flathub, Homebrew, winget or Chocolatey.
Are these open-source AI desktop apps free?
Yes. All 123 use an open-source license (OSI-approved or FSF-free), so you can use, copy and change them for free.
How are these open-source AI desktop apps chosen?
Apps come from desktop awesome lists (Awesome Linux Software, awesome-mac, awesome-windows, awesome-electron and the media and file sections of awesome-cli-apps), more than 70 GitHub topics such as desktop-app, electron-app, tauri-app, gtk, qt, macos-app, pdf-editor, cad and remote-desktop, and a hand-picked list of flagship apps. An app is listed only if it has a license (one GitHub detects, or one appsgit checked by hand), a README and a commit in the last six months, is not archived or a fork, and has 1000+ GitHub stars (topics), 500+ (awesome lists) or 100+ (hand-picked). It must also be an end-user application with a desktop signal: installers in its releases, install instructions for Windows, macOS or Linux, or a Flathub, Homebrew, winget, Chocolatey, Snap or AUR package. Libraries, frameworks, themes, plugins and servers are left out, and source-available apps are labelled as such.