desktop AI chat clients
An unofficial, cross-platform Tauri desktop wrapper that wraps OpenAI's ChatGPT web interface so users can run ChatGPT as a standalone desktop app.
Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.
Active unofficial ChatGPT desktop app for Linux; choose it when you are on Linux and want a maintained ChatGPT desktop client.
Unofficial ChatGPT desktop app for Linux (formerly the Codex app), built locally from OpenAI’s official macOS app. Includes Chat, Work, and Codex. Packages for Debian/Ubuntu (.deb), Fedora/openSUSE (.rpm), Arch (pacman), Nix/NixOS, and AppImage, with Wayland and X11 support.
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
Choose it when you want one cross-platform AI client that can connect to ChatGPT and other providers via API keys instead of wrapping the ChatGPT website.
Powerful AI Client
Choose it when you need fully offline/private AI chat with local models rather than a remote ChatGPT wrapper.
Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.
Choose it when you want to run ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Bard, etc. side by side in one desktop GUI and compare answers.
Concurrently chat with ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Bard, Alpaca, Vicuna, Claude, ChatGLM, MOSS, 讯飞星火, 文心一言 and more, discover the best answers
Choose it when you want a self-hostable cross-platform AI assistant that can use ChatGPT/Claude/etc. with API keys rather than a web-only wrapper.
✨ Light and Fast AI Assistant. Support: Web | iOS | MacOS | Android | Linux | Windows
An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.
Unmaintained menubar-only ChatGPT wrapper; choose it if you want a tiny macOS/Windows menu bar client and can accept stale code.
Unofficial ChatGPT desktop app for Mac & Windows menubar using Tauri & Rust
Stale desktop wrapper for Microsoft Bing's AI chat; pick it only if you want Bing/Copilot in a desktop shell instead of ChatGPT and can accept old code.
Desktop application of new Bing's AI-powered chat (Windows, macOS and Linux)
These projects were analysed and named ChatGPT among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how ChatGPT rates them is a separate judgement, made when ChatGPT is analysed in its own right.
calls ChatGPT “Desktop client for OpenAI ChatGPT rather than Microsoft Bing; choose it when your preferred AI service is OpenAI.”
Desktop application of new Bing's AI-powered chat (Windows, macOS and Linux)
calls ChatGPT “Choose only if you want a ChatGPT-only desktop wrapper; unmaintained since 2023.”
Powerful AI Client