Local & private AI for chat

Private ChatGPT-style chat apps and interfaces that talk to models running on your own machine or home server.

4 real examples, each linked to its original source.

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A private ChatGPT for a family of four on a Mac mini

One always-on M4 Mac mini serves Open WebUI to every phone and laptop in the house. Kids get a tutor preset, and three AI subscriptions are gone.

Think Different · 2026-06-07

Øxygen: a private desktop chat app for Ollama

Conversations, files and settings live in a file in your home directory. It talks only to Ollama on 127.0.0.1 and adds optional embeddings, vision, voice and image generation.

guhhammer.dev

Branching conversation graphs with OpenYoke

A Tauri and Rust desktop app for Ollama where every exchange is a node you can branch from, and sibling branches never bleed context into each other.

GitHub

Offline chat on desktop or Android via Termux with Prefrontal

A privacy-first chat UI that works with Ollama on desktop or llama.cpp anywhere, including Android through Termux. No telemetry, no subscriptions.

GitHub