Best Chat UI Top 20
Top 20 most popular open-source Chat UI projects, ranked by GitHub Stars.
Open WebUI
143.6k StarsOpen WebUI is a feature-rich, user-friendly self-hosted AI platform supporting Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with RAG, agents, and MCP capabilities.
Open WebUI
143.6k StarsSelf-hostable multi-model chat UI compatible with Ollama and OpenAI.
NextChat
88.3k StarsNextChat is a lightweight, cross-platform AI assistant client supporting GPT-4, Claude, Gemini and more, with Web, desktop, and mobile experiences.
ChatGPT Next Web
88.3k StarsCross-platform ChatGPT-style frontend, multi-provider and one-click deploy.
Lobe Chat
79.3k StarsModern open-source chat UI with multi-model and plugin support.
Lobe Chat
79.3k StarsLobe Chat is an open-source ChatGPT-style chat application with a plugin system and multi-model support, suitable as an agent conversation interface.
LobeHub
79.3k StarsThe ultimate space for work and life to find, build and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you, enabling multi-agent collaboration and team design.
GPT4All
77.4k StarsRun Local LLMs on Any Device. Open-source and available for commercial use. Provides fully offline local inference and chat for AI agents.
Warp
62.6k StarsThe agentic development environment built for coding with multiple AI agents, providing a next-generation terminal experience.
AnythingLLM
62.4k StarsAnythingLLM is an all-in-one AI productivity app with a self-hosted chat UI, RAG knowledge base, AI agents, and multi-model management, privacy-first with zero configuration.
VibeVoice
49.8k StarsOpen-source frontier voice AI from Microsoft, providing high-quality speech synthesis and recognition for building real-time conversational voice agent applications.
tldraw
48.4k Starstldraw is an infinite canvas SDK for the web; its AI integrations let agents draw, annotate, and reason visually over a shared whiteboard.
Cherry Studio
48.0k StarsCherry Studio is an AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants, providing unified access to frontier LLMs.
text-generation-webui
47.4k StarsThe original local LLM interface supporting text generation, vision, tool-calling, and training with both a web UI and API. Runs 100% offline and private.
Jan
43.3k StarsJan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer, supporting multiple local LLMs with a full desktop chat UI and API server.
Chatbox
40.8k StarsChatbox is a powerful cross-platform AI client supporting OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and other LLMs with desktop and mobile apps.
Chatbox
40.8k StarsCross-platform desktop AI client with multi-provider and local model support.
LibreChat
40.1k StarsLibreChat is an enhanced open-source ChatGPT clone featuring Agents, MCP tools, multi-model support, code interpreter, AI search, and more.
LibreChat
40.1k StarsFully open-source ChatGPT alternative with multi-provider and advanced agents.
novu
39.2k StarsNovu is the open-source notification infrastructure for developers, providing a unified API to deliver in-app, email, SMS, and push notifications triggered by agent events.
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