Local-First Directory
The crawler that will index /.well-known/freehold.json beacons automatically is still in development (see what's coming, below). Until it ships, this is a hand-checked starting list of local-first AI tools, grouped by where they sit in the stack. Inclusion here means a tool runs locally or self-hosts and keeps your data on your own hardware. It is the curated version, not yet the formal freehold verification, that arrives with the beacon. No ads, no rankings, no pay to play.
Ollama
Run open models from one command, with a local API. Pulls and serves Llama, Mistral, Gemma, Qwen and more.
llama.cpp
The inference engine most local tools build on. Runs quantised GGUF models on CPU or GPU.
LM Studio
Desktop app to find, run and chat with local models, with an OpenAI-compatible server built in.
Jan
An open-source offline ChatGPT alternative. Runs models on-device with an OpenAI-compatible API.
GPT4All
Nomic's desktop app for running local models, including private chat over your own documents.
LocalAI
A self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible API for local inference across text, audio and images.
vLLM
A high-throughput serving engine for running models efficiently on your own GPUs.
Open WebUI
A self-hosted, ChatGPT-style web interface that pairs with Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible backend.
LibreChat
A self-hostable chat interface that works across many local and remote model backends.
AnythingLLM
An all-in-one app for chatting with your own documents using local models, with retrieval built in.
Obsidian
A local-first Markdown knowledge base. Your notes are plain files on your disk, with optional AI plugins.
Logseq
An open-source, local-first outliner that stores everything as Markdown files on your machine.
Reor
A local-first AI note-taking app that runs models on-device and links related notes automatically.
Khoj
A self-hostable AI that searches and chats over your own notes and documents, scoped mainly to your files.
Odysseus AI
A free, self-hosted AI workspace from PewDiePie. Chat, autonomous agents, tools, model serving, email, research and documents in one private interface that runs on your own hardware. Connect local models or your own API endpoints.
LocalGhost
A fleet of small Go daemons for notes, memory, voice, vision and adversarial review, running on hardware you own with no cloud dependency. Early-stage and in active development, not yet a finished product.
Rotki
A local-first, privacy-preserving portfolio and accounting tracker. Your financial data stays on your machine.
whisper.cpp
Fully offline speech-to-text on your own hardware. Transcribe audio with no upload.
ComfyUI
A node-based interface for running image-generation models locally, with full control of the pipeline.
> WHAT'S COMING
- Automated discovery of projects hosting
/.well-known/freehold.json - Submit your project URL and we'll validate your beacon file
- Searchable index by capability: offline-first, self-hosted, export formats
- Verification that your project actually works offline and the export works
- RSS feed to follow new additions to the index
- Full directory downloadable as JSON, take the data, run it yourself
> WHAT STILL NEEDS TO BE BUILT
See something missing from the ecosystem? We've mapped the gaps, the critical infrastructure, the tools that don't exist yet, and where help is needed most.
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