General-purpose AI assistants, chatbots, and chatbot-builder platforms.
17 tools · ranked by community votes and reviews
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Turns technical docs into an AI support chatbot for developer products.
Kapa.ai ingests a company's documentation, GitHub issues, and community forums to power an AI chatbot that answers developer support questions accurately and with sources.
A personal AI companion app that chats, listens, and adapts to you over time.
Replika is an AI companion app that uses natural language processing to build a personalized virtual friend, learning a user's communication style and interests through ongoing conversation. It offers text chat, voice calls, and an AR mode, and is positioned as a self-care and emotional-support companion rather than a productivity tool.
Personal AI assistant from Inflection AI focused on supportive conversation.
Pi is a conversational AI assistant built by Inflection AI, designed to be a supportive, emotionally intelligent chat companion — helping with everyday questions, talking through decisions, or just having a low-stakes conversation, with a voice mode for spoken back-and-forth.
Built-in AI browsing assistant inside the Opera web browser.
Aria is Opera's built-in AI assistant, accessible from the browser sidebar to answer questions, summarize the page you're on, generate images, and search the web with cited sources — without installing a separate extension.
Privacy-focused AI assistant built into the Brave browser.
Leo is Brave's built-in AI assistant, integrated directly into the browser sidebar to summarize pages and videos, answer questions, and draft text, with Brave's usual emphasis on privacy — chats aren't used to train models and browsing stays local.
AI browser extension that adds GPT-powered chat and summarization to any website.
Merlin is a browser extension that overlays an AI chat assistant on top of any webpage — summarizing articles and YouTube videos, drafting emails and social posts, and answering questions about the page you're currently on, across most major websites.
Open-source, privacy-first desktop app for running AI models locally.
Jan is an open-source ChatGPT-alternative desktop app that runs entirely on-device, letting people download and chat with open-source LLMs without an internet connection or sending data to a cloud provider, with an extension system for adding cloud models too if wanted.
Free desktop app for running open-source LLMs privately on your own device.
GPT4All, built by Nomic AI, is a free desktop application that runs open-source language models entirely locally with no internet connection needed, aimed at people who want a private ChatGPT-style experience without any data leaving their computer.
Open-source, all-in-one desktop app for chatting with your own documents privately.
AnythingLLM lets anyone build a private, document-aware chatbot by dropping in PDFs, spreadsheets, and other files, then chatting with that knowledge base using a local or cloud LLM of choice — packaging RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) into a simple desktop app.
Desktop app for chatting with local and online AI models side by side.
Msty is a desktop chat app that lets people run local open-source models and connect cloud models (OpenAI, Anthropic, and others) in the same interface, with features like conversation branching, split-screen model comparison, and offline document chat.