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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

Showing the top 48 of 123 by GitHub stars. Every entry is listed in the sitemap and the JSON API.

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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.