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Chatbox vs Follamac: catalog facts
Chatbox	Follamac
Freemium The community edition is free and open source, and using it with your own API keys costs…	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
Works with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Azure and local Ollama models from one window Conversations are stored locally rather than on someone else's server	Graphical front end for Ollama models Builds for Linux, Mac and Windows
You need your own API keys, and those cost money per use It is a client, so it cannot run a model itself without Ollama or similar	Requires a separate Ollama installation Early version number (0.1.3)
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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