Alternatives to Elephas
An AI knowledge assistant for Mac, iPhone and iPad that answers questions from your own documents. Notes say what changes if you switch.
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Elephas
An AI knowledge assistant for Mac, iPhone and iPad that answers questions from your own documents.
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Fello AI
A native Mac, iPhone and iPad app that brings over 20 AI models into one chat interface.
Enclave AI
An iPhone, iPad and Mac app for chatting with open-source AI models that run offline on the device.
Enclave AI is a free app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that chats with PDFs and text files using offline on-device models, which are smaller than cloud models.
AnythingLLM
A desktop AI app that answers questions about your own documents, with no account and no API key needed.
AnythingLLM is an MIT-licensed desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux that answers questions about your documents locally or with a cloud key, with separate workspaces.
Highlight AI
A desktop AI assistant that captures context from your meetings, screen and tools and drafts follow-ups.
Private LLM
An offline AI chat app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that runs open language models on the device.
Khoj
Open-source AI second brain that researches across your documents and the web with any model.
Khoj is an AGPL-3.0 web and self-hosted assistant that searches your documents and the web with local or remote models, adding automations and custom agents.
Alter
A macOS AI assistant that combines screen context and voice commands to act across your apps.
Sidekick
A native macOS app for chatting with a local LLM that can draw on your files.
Sidekick is a free native macOS app that answers using your files, folders and websites with local llama.cpp models, without iPhone or cloud model options.
Kerlig
A macOS AI writing app for drafting, proofreading and chatting with documents in any app.
RecurseChat
A macOS chat app for local AI models, with optional Claude and ChatGPT support.
RecurseChat is a paid macOS app for offline local models with on-device RAG over your files and optional Claude and ChatGPT support, without an iOS version.
Msty
Desktop workspace for chatting with local and hosted AI models in one place.
Msty is a freemium desktop workspace for Windows, macOS and Linux with local and hosted models and attached knowledge bases, closed source with paid advanced features.
PDF Pals
A native macOS app for asking questions about PDF documents using an AI model.
GPT4All
A local AI chat app with document chat built in, from Nomic AI. Stable, MIT licensed, but not updated since early 2025.
GPT4All is a free MIT-licensed app for Windows, macOS and Linux whose LocalDocs answers from your files on CPU, though it has not been updated since February 2025.
LM Studio
A polished desktop app for downloading, running and chatting with local language models, with an OpenAI-compatible server built in.
Fixkey
A macOS AI writing assistant that rewrites, translates and dictates text in any app.
Open WebUI
A self-hosted chat interface that talks to Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible API, so your local models get a proper front end.
Dropbox Dash
AI universal search tool that finds files and answers across connected work apps from one workspace.
RewriteBar
A macOS AI writing assistant that fixes grammar, rewrites and translates selected text in any app.
Text Generator
An Obsidian plugin that generates and rewrites note content with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or local models.
