133 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 Open Design. appsgit lists 133, each with its platforms, license and install commands.
Updated Oct 28, 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.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
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.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxOpen Design
nexu-io/open-design
The 1st Collaborative AI Design Agent Workspace.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
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.
Maintained · last commit Oct 20, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxPake
tw93/Pake
Turn any website into a lightweight desktop app with one command, on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxCherry Studio
CherryHQ/cherry-studio
AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxJan
janhq/jan
Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
OfficialAI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxOpenhuman
tinyhumansai/openhuman
The fastest, cheapest, most efficient open-source agent harness.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
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.
Active · last commit Sep 24, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxMagpie
yetone/magpie
Every agent's model. One place. Codex on DeepSeek, Claude Code on Kimi, from the menu bar.
Too new to judge · created Sep 23, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxOmlx
jundot/omlx
LLM inference server with continuous batching & SSD caching for Apple Silicon — managed from the macOS menu bar.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
AI desktop appsmacOSCodexBar
steipete/CodexBar
Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, without having to login.
Active · last commit Oct 26, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxBuzz
chidiwilliams/buzz
Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer.
Active · last commit Oct 27, 2026
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…
Active · last commit Oct 27, 2026
AI desktop appsmacOSClaudecodeui
siteboon/claudecodeui
Use Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor CLI, and Codex on mobile and web with CloudCLI (aka Claude Code UI).
Active · last commit Oct 27, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSBrowserOS
browseros-ai/BrowserOS
The open-source Agentic browser; alternative to ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Dia.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
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.
Active · last commit Oct 27, 2026
OfficialAI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxOpenwhispr
OpenWhispr/openwhispr
Voice-to-text dictation app with local (Nvidia Parakeet/Whisper) and cloud models (BYOK).
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxUFO
microsoft/UFO
UFO³: Weaving the Digital Agent Galaxy.
Active · last commit Oct 14, 2026
OfficialAI desktop appsWindowsLinuxAutoclip
zhouxiaoka/autoclip
AutoClip｜一个链接，一键出片。开源 AI 视频剪辑桌面工具，将播客、访谈、课程等长视频自动剪成短视频，生成字幕、封面和发布文案，适配抖音、小红书、TikTok、Reels 与 YouTube Shorts。Open-source AI video clipping & content repurposing.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSMunder 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.
Active · last commit Oct 27, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxStabilityMatrix
LykosAI/StabilityMatrix
Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion.
Active · last commit Oct 21, 2026
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.
Active · last commit Oct 27, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxCopilotForXcode
intitni/CopilotForXcode
The first GitHub Copilot, Codeium and ChatGPT Xcode Source Editor Extension.
Maintained · last commit Oct 24, 2026
AI desktop appsmacOSOpen Codesign
OpenCoworkAI/open-codesign
Open-source Claude Design alternative. One-click import your Claude Code / Codex API key.
Active · last commit Oct 24, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxMochiDiffusion
MochiDiffusion/MochiDiffusion
Run Stable Diffusion on Mac natively.
Active · last commit Sep 30, 2026
AI desktop appsmacOSCindy
makecindy/cindy
Consider it done. The open-source AI agent that works out of the box · 想到，就能做到。开源、开箱即用的 AI Agent。.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
OfficialAI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxBoxplayer
gaozhangmin/boxplayer
BoxPlayer - 聚合网盘管理+影视聚合 支持 Windows Linux iOS macOS tvOS Android.
Active · last commit Oct 26, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxDayflow
JerryZLiu/Dayflow
The automatic work journal/time tracker. Privately turns your screen into a timeline of what you actually accomplished.
Active · last commit Oct 22, 2026
AI desktop appsmacOSVoiceInk
Beingpax/VoiceInk
The best open-source alternative to Superwhisper & Wispr Flow.
Active · last commit Oct 27, 2026
AI desktop appsmacOSCoucou
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.
Too new to judge · created Sep 27, 2026
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.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxDeepchat
ThinkInAIXYZ/deepchat
DeepChat - A smart assistant that connects powerful AI to your personal world.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxCopilotForXcode
github/CopilotForXcode
GitHub Copilot for Xcode is the leading AI coding assistant for Swift, Objective-C and iOS/macOS development.
Active · last commit Sep 18, 2026
OfficialAI desktop appsmacOSLobsterAI
netease-youdao/LobsterAI
Open-source, desktop-grade AI agent that gets real work done — data analysis, slides, docs, video & web research.
Active · last commit Oct 23, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSRakazo
elie222/rakazo
Open-source Grok Bot alternative. Choose your own model and sandbox.
Too new to judge · created Aug 13, 2026
AI desktop appsmacOSLinuxMaka
apache/maka
Apache Maka (Incubating) is a high-performance agent workspace that keeps a complete record of everything it did.
Maintained · last commit Oct 28, 2026
OfficialAI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxOpenMausBot
milind-soni/OpenMausBot
Open-source Grok Bot alternative with a virtual machine that bots can use.
Too new to judge · created Aug 11, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxMineContext
volcengine/MineContext
MineContext is your proactive context-aware AI partner（Context-Engineering+ChatGPT Pulse）.
Maintained · last commit May 7, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSSkill 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…
Active · last commit Sep 21, 2026
OfficialAI 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…
Active · last commit Oct 27, 2026
AI desktop appsmacOSOpen Science
aipoch/open-science
The open-source AI research workbench for scientific research and agent workflows.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxTransformerlab 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.
Active · last commit Aug 6, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxChat 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.
Too new to judge · created Aug 22, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxAliens Eye
arxhr007/Aliens_eye
AI powered OSINT engine to discover and map 840+ social media identities across the web.
Active · last commit Oct 25, 2026
AI desktop appsLinuxCodeg
spacering-net/codeg
Collaborative multi-agent AI coding workspace: aggregate sessions from Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Grok Build, etc.
Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinuxCodex 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.
Active · last commit Oct 10, 2026
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.
Active · last commit Sep 26, 2026
AI desktop appsWindowsmacOSLinux
Showing 1-48 of 133 by GitHub stars. All desktop apps A to Z · JSON API
What are the best open-source AI desktop apps?
By GitHub stars, Ollama is the most popular (185,076 stars), followed by Cc Switch and Open Design. Each page lists the platforms, license and last commit.
Which of these run on Windows, Mac and Linux?
108 of the 133 open-source AI desktop apps listed here run on Windows, 121 on macOS and 90 on Linux; on a Mac, the most starred is Ollama. 32 can be installed with a package manager such as Flathub, Homebrew, winget or Chocolatey.
Are these open-source AI desktop apps free?
Yes. All 133 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.