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mit, with local document chat built into the free app instead of sold as a feature.
unrestricted mit and the easiest local document chat here — on a project whose development pace we could not confirm is keeping up.
localdocs is the reason to pick it: point the app at a folder and ask questions about its contents, entirely locally, with no vector database to stand up and no configuration. rivals either omit this or treat it as an advanced feature.
the licence is mit with no conditions, the gui is qt-based and available on macos, windows and linux, and there are python bindings and a local server alongside cuda, vulkan, metal and cpu backends.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- local llm tools
- pricing
- free
- website
- github.com
unrestricted mit and the easiest local document chat here — on a project whose development pace we could not confirm is keeping up.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.