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View 33 business solutionsBrowse free open source AI Assistants and projects for Mac and Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source AI Assistants by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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OpenClaw
Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform.
OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot/Moltbot) is an open-source, self-hosted autonomous AI assistant designed to run on user-controlled hardware and bridge conversational natural language with real-world task execution, effectively acting as a proactive digital assistant rather than a reactive chatbot. It lets you send instructions through familiar messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage, and more, and then interprets those instructions to carry out actions such as managing calendars, sending emails or messages, browsing the web, executing system commands, and coordinating workflows across services — all while maintaining long-term memory and context across sessions. Because it runs locally or on infrastructure you choose (like a personal computer, VPS, or Raspberry Pi), OpenClaw emphasizes data ownership, privacy, and full transparency into how your instructions are handled and what actions are taken, giving users autonomy over their AI workflows. -
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Jarvis
Personal Assistant for Linux and macOS
Jarvis is a simple personal assistant for Linux, MacOS and Windows which works on the command line. He can talk to you if you enable his voice. He can tell you the weather, he can find restaurants and other places near you. He can do some great stuff for you. In order to start Jarvis just clone this repository and run python installer. Run Jarvis from anywhere by command jarvis. You can start by typing help within the Jarvis command line to check what Jarvis can do for you. Plugins may be modified using the decorators @alias, @require and @complete. These special decorators may be used in any order or several times.Not all plugins are compatible with every system. To specify compatibility constraints, use the require-feature. -
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PicoClaw
Ultra-Efficient AI Assistant in Go
PicoClaw is an ultra-lightweight, open-source personal AI assistant written in Go, architected from the ground up to operate with extremely low memory usage (under 10 MB) and fast boot times, making it suitable for inexpensive hardware platforms and embedded devices. Inspired by earlier AI assistant projects like “nanobot,” it was refactored to emphasize resource efficiency while still supporting meaningful AI-driven interactions such as conversational workflows, planning tasks, and automation. PicoClaw can run on hardware costing as little as $10 and on resource-constrained environments like RISC-V or ARM boards, with cross-architecture portability achieved through a single self-contained binary. The project’s goals include broad platform support (including Linux, macOS, and multiple CPU architectures), rapid startup times that make the assistant feel responsive, and integration with popular messaging platforms via gateways or bots. -
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ZeroClaw
Fast, small, and fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure
ZeroClaw is a Rust-native autonomous AI agent framework engineered for teams and developers who need highly efficient, secure, and modular AI automation infrastructure that can run reliably in both production and self-hosted environments. It is designed around a trait-based architecture so that model providers, communication channels, memory systems, and tooling integrations can be swapped or extended without rewriting core components, giving engineers flexibility and long-term maintainability. The framework features a compact single binary with fast cold and warm startup times and very low memory overhead, making it suitable even for resource-constrained hardware like small servers or edge devices. Security is a first-class concern, with sandbox controls, encrypted secrets, allowlisted operations, and scoped filesystem access by default, helping reduce risk when running autonomous agents. -
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OpenClaw CN
The Chinese version of OpenClaw
OpenClaw-CN is a Chinese language community adaptation and localization of the OpenClaw project, focused on making a powerful open-source agent framework usable and understandable for Chinese-speaking developers. It includes translated documentation, localized examples, and language-specific nuances so that developers in the Chinese ecosystem can adopt and contribute without a language barrier. The repository mirrors the structure of the upstream project but adds Chinese translations of core workflows, prompts, guidelines, and best practices for building multi-agent systems or AI applications. Beyond simple translation, the project often curates region-specific integrations or tooling recommendations that resonate with local developer environments and platforms. It helps accelerate adoption by providing readable guides, sample configurations, and annotated code that aligns with Chinese developer preferences and tooling conventions. -
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NullClaw
Fastest, smallest, and fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure
NullClaw is the smallest fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure, built entirely in Zig as a single static binary with zero runtime dependencies. At just 678 KB with ~1 MB peak RAM usage, it boots in under 2 milliseconds and runs on virtually any hardware, including low-cost ARM boards. Despite its size, it delivers a complete AI stack with 22+ model providers, 18+ communication channels, integrated tools, hybrid memory, and sandboxed runtime support. Its architecture is fully modular, using vtable interfaces that allow providers, channels, tools, memory backends, and runtimes to be swapped without code changes. NullClaw is secure by design, enforcing pairing-based authentication, strict sandboxing, encrypted secrets, resource limits, and workspace scoping by default. Designed for portability and independence, it supports OpenAI-compatible APIs, multiple tunnels, hardware peripherals, and edge deployments including WASM-based logic. -
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CowAgent
AI assistant based on large models that can actively think and plan
CowAgent, based on the chatgpt-on-wechat project, is an open-source AI agent framework that integrates large language models into the WeChat ecosystem to create intelligent conversational assistants. It enables automated message handling by connecting WeChat accounts with AI models that can generate contextual replies, process voice messages, and produce images directly inside chats. The platform has evolved beyond a simple chatbot into a more autonomous agent capable of planning complex tasks, maintaining long-term memory, and invoking external tools to complete workflows. It supports multi-turn conversations with per-user context tracking, allowing more natural and persistent interactions across private and group chats. Developers can extend functionality through a plugin architecture and customizable rules, making it suitable for both personal assistants and enterprise automation scenarios. -
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5ire
5ire is a cross-platform desktop AI assistant, MCP client
5ire is a sleek, cross‑platform desktop AI assistant and MCP client that connects to major service providers, supports a local knowledge base and tool integration via MCP servers, enabling robust RAG and assistant features. These components are required as they constitute the runtime environment for the MCP Server. If you don't anticipate using the tools feature immediately, you may choose to skip this installation step and complete it later when the need arises. MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. Just as USB-C provides a standardized way to connect your devices to various peripherals and accessories, MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to different data sources and tools. -
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NextChat
Light and Fast AI Assistant
NextChat is a browser extension that injects a floating ChatGPT-style chat sidebar into webpages, enabling instant AI assistance during web browsing. It supports context-aware chatting using page content, quick queries, and code assistance without opening a new tab. Developers appreciate its customization options—like hotkeys, themes, and engine selection—while everyday users enjoy handy tools for writing, summarizing, or brainstorming on the fly. -
AI-generated apps that pass security reviewRetool lets you generate dashboards, admin panels, and workflows directly on your data. Type something like “Build me a revenue dashboard on my Stripe data” and get a working app with security, permissions, and compliance built in from day one. Whether on our cloud or self-hosted, create the internal software your team needs without compromising enterprise standards or control.
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IronClaw
IronClaw is OpenClaw inspired but focused on privacy & security
IronClaw is a security-first, open-source personal AI assistant built in Rust and designed to keep your data fully under your control. It operates on the principle that your AI should work for you, not external vendors, ensuring all data is stored locally, encrypted, and never shared. The platform emphasizes transparency, offering auditable code with no hidden telemetry or data harvesting. IronClaw runs untrusted tools inside isolated WebAssembly (WASM) sandboxes with strict capability-based permissions. It supports multiple interaction channels, including REPL, HTTP webhooks, Telegram, Slack, and a real-time web gateway. With dynamic tool building, persistent memory, and background automation, IronClaw is built to securely expand and adapt to your personal and professional workflows. -
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OpenClaw Chinese Translation
Open source personal AI assistant Chinese version
OpenClawChineseTranslation is a community-driven effort to provide translated resources and documentation for the OpenClaw project in Chinese, making it easier for native Chinese developers to understand and implement the agent framework. It focuses on producing accurate and up-to-date translations of tutorials, API references, configuration guides, and explanatory materials so that learners don’t struggle with language barriers when working with the original project. The repository organizes translated articles, diagrams, and examples in a way that mirrors the structure of the original codebase, helping users correlate documentation with the actual implementation. It also includes localized explanations of conceptual topics such as agent reasoning, message handling, workflow design, and best practices. -
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The Pope Bot
Autonomous AI agent that you can configure and build
The Pope Bot is an autonomous AI agent framework that lets users configure and run an AI-powered agent that can perform tasks continuously, day in and day out, by leveraging GitHub Actions, commit history, and secure workflows. It’s designed so that every action taken by the agent is logged as a git commit, giving users complete visibility into what the agent did, why it did it, and when, which makes actions auditable and reversible. The framework treats the repository itself as the agent’s “brain,” and GitHub Actions serve as the compute layer, enabling tasks to run securely without exposing sensitive API keys to the underlying AI. The system integrates with messaging platforms like Telegram, where users can interact with the bot, trigger actions, or receive notifications, and supports scheduling and automation through patterns of request handling. -
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PyGPT
Open source personal AI Assistant for Linux, Windows and Mac
PyGPT is a desktop application that allows you to talk to OpenAI's LLM models such as GPT4 and GPT3 using your own computer and OpenAI API. It allows you to talk in chat mode and in completion mode, as well as generate images using DALL-E 2. PyGPT also adds access to the Internet for GPT via Google Custom Search API and Wikipedia API and includes voice synthesis using Microsoft Azure Text-to-Speech API. Moreover, the application has implemented context memory support, context storage, history of contexts, which can be restored at any time and e.g. continue the conversation from point in history, and also has a convenient and intuitive system of presets that allows you to quickly and pleasantly create and manage your prompts. Plugins support is also available. -
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nanobot
🐈 nanobot: The Ultra-Lightweight Clawdbot / OpenClaw
nanobot is an ultra-lightweight personal AI assistant designed to deliver powerful agent capabilities without unnecessary complexity. Built in just ~4,000 lines of clean, readable code, it offers a minimalist alternative to heavyweight agent frameworks while retaining core intelligence and extensibility. nanobot is optimized for speed and efficiency, enabling fast startup times and low resource usage across environments. Its research-ready architecture makes it easy for developers to understand, customize, and extend for experimentation or production use. With simple one-click deployment and a straightforward CLI, users can get a working AI assistant running in minutes. Inspired by Clawdbot but radically simplified, nanobot proves that capable AI agents don’t need massive codebases. -
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GPT Computer Assistant
gpt-4o for windows, macos and linux
This is an alternative work for providing ChatGPT MacOS app to Windows and Linux. In this way, this is a fresh and stable work. You can easily install as a Python library for this time but we will prepare a pipeline for providing native install scripts (.exe). -
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MetaGPT
The Multi-Agent Framework
The Multi-Agent Framework: Given one line Requirement, return PRD, Design, Tasks, Repo. Assign different roles to GPTs to form a collaborative software entity for complex tasks. MetaGPT takes a one-line requirement as input and outputs user stories / competitive analysis/requirements/data structures / APIs / documents, etc. Internally, MetaGPT includes product managers/architects/project managers/engineers. It provides the entire process of a software company along with carefully orchestrated SOPs. -
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MimiClaw
Run OpenClaw on a $5 chip
MimiClaw (from the mimiclaw project) is an edge-AI personal assistant that runs directly on extremely low-cost hardware like an ESP32-S3 microcontroller without a full operating system, Node.js, or cloud backend. By running pure C on a bare-metal chip, MimiClaw brings AI interactions and persistent memory to a tiny USB-powered device you can carry in your pocket. You connect the device to Wi-Fi and chat with it using Telegram, making it a convenient always-on assistant for tasks like reminders, quick lookups, or custom AI interactions. Even though it’s running on minimal hardware, MimiClaw maintains local memory that persists across power cycles, enabling context continuity over time without relying on cloud services. Its architecture emphasizes privacy, low power, and portability, ideal for personal or hobbyist use cases where privacy and local control matter. -
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SafeClaw
Chat with it via text and voice
SafeClaw is an open-source, entirely local alternative to cloud-based AI assistants like OpenClaw, enabling users to build a personal assistant that runs on their own machine without incurring API usage charges or exposing data to third-party services. It emphasizes privacy and predictability by using traditional programming, rule-based intent parsing, and established machine learning tools rather than large language models, meaning there are no per-token API costs and deterministic behavior. The assistant offers features such as voice control using fully local speech-to-text (Whisper) and text-to-speech (Piper) capabilities, news aggregation with extractive summarization, and smart home or Bluetooth device control. SafeClaw supports multiple channels, including CLI and Telegram, and avoids prompt injection risk because it doesn’t rely on LLMs for core operations. -
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Secure OpenClaw
A personal 24x7 AI assistant like OpenClaw
Secure-OpenClaw is an open-source project designed to transform your everyday messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and iMessage into a 24×7 personal AI assistant that can respond to queries, run tasks, remember context, and interact with external services. Unlike a traditional chatbot that lives in a browser or API dashboard, Secure-OpenClaw runs locally or on your chosen infrastructure and listens for messages on channels you already use, giving you an always-on interface to a powerful agent. It leverages Claude and other models to interpret messages and is built to manage persistent memory, scheduled reminders, and integration with hundreds of third-party apps to automate workflows without leaving your chat. The design emphasizes security and autonomy by allowing you to maintain ownership of your data and run the system within your trusted environment, while still harnessing advanced AI capabilities. -
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Leon
Leon is your open-source personal assistant
Leon is an open-source personal AI assistant platform that lets users run a conversational agent locally or on their own servers, providing an alternative to cloud-hosted assistants with a focus on privacy, extensibility, and modular components. It’s designed to process natural language queries and perform tasks such as information retrieval, task automation, scheduling, and custom workflows defined by the user. The architecture emphasizes modularity: you can plug in different language models, intent recognizers, or action handlers to tailor Leon for specific domains like productivity, home automation, or developer tooling. Because it runs independently of third-party cloud services, Leon gives users full control over their data and system behavior, which is especially important for privacy-conscious users and organizations. -
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KDeep
AI assistent plugin for Kate editor
https://deepseek.com assistent🧙 plugin for https://github.com/KDE/kate editor. 👽 Alternatively, you can 👾download https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all and select any pre-made models to download (large sizes) and use it locally and freely, but this will also require your own powerful hardware. Next 🛸alternative is https://github.com/RightNow-AI/picolm, may be it add speedup for your hardware. -
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Chat4Us-Creator
A lightweight intelligent chatbots creator platform.
Chat4Us-Creator is a lightweight open-source cross-platform chatbots creator that handle Q/A and AI-driven conversations. Escalate to human agents when needed through a messenger app. Chatbots can be created using the graphic nodes editor from basic to advanced chat flows with the ability to connect them either to local/offline LLMs using GPT4All/Ollama or external API providers like OpenAI, DeepSeek or Groq. Requires Java (JRE) 21 or higher installed. Default authentication password: a123456/* -
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AIPex
AI browser automation assistant, no migration and privacy first
AIPex is an AI-augmented development toolkit and workflow platform that aims to accelerate software productivity by integrating intelligent assistants, code generation tools, and customizable automation patterns directly into developer workflows. Rather than treating AI as a separate helper, AIPex embeds AI capabilities into common tasks like scaffolding components, generating tests, analyzing code quality, and performing refactors, allowing developers to stay in flow while benefiting from model-assisted insights. It supports modular plugin architecture so teams can extend or customize how assistants behave based on project conventions, code standards, or tooling preferences. AIPex also includes orchestration pipelines that let teams define multi-step AI-driven transformations — for example, generating code then running validation, producing documentation, and opening change requests — all within a unified pattern. -
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alfred-ai
The development of my ai assistant, Alfred
The development of my ai assistant, Alfred. -
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nextcaptcha-csharp
Online CAPTCHA Solving and Image Recognition Service.
NextCaptcha is a powerful captcha solving service that helps developers easily integrate captcha solving capabilities into their C# projects. With NextCaptcha, you can solve a wide range of captcha types, including reCAPTCHA v2, reCAPTCHA v3, reCAPTCHA Enterprise,reCAPTCHA Mobile, hCaptcha, hCaptcha Enterprise, and FunCaptcha. Our SDK provides a simple and intuitive API that allows you to seamlessly integrate captcha solving into your applications.
