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Chaty

Private, local AI desktop app — run open LLMs fully offline with a coding agent, knowledge base and voice.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Chaty is an AI chat assistant, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository, on its official website and in its Winget manifest: local model execution, chat with your documents, open-weight models (Llama, Mistral…), hardware acceleration, web search, image understanding, full-text search and Markdown support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “GGUF and MLX.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Private, local AI desktop app — run open LLMs fully offline with a coding agent, knowledge base and voice.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Chaty runs open large language models 100% locally.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Download · Website · Docs · Changelog macOS (Apple Silicon) · Windows 10/11 · Linux (AppImage) — GGUF on llama.cpp, MLX natively on Apple Silicon, text-to-image on stable-diffusion.cpp, text-to-music on audio.cpp” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Chat with any GGUF model (llama.cpp, Vulkan GPU), use a local coding agent that can drive a real browser, ground answers in your own documents with a private knowledge base (RAG), generate cited Deep Research…” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “What's on, at a glance A quiet line above the message box names what the next message will use — thinking, web search, the knowledge base — each one click from off.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Pictures in, too Drop an image on any vision model — a GGUF with its projector, or an MLX build.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Every conversation, searchable Full-text search across your history; export any conversation to Markdown or JSON.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Every conversation, searchable Full-text search across your history; export any conversation to Markdown or JSON.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Load a text-to-music model and Chaty becomes a music studio: your style and lyrics as a turn in the conversation, the piece as a waveform to play, seek and select, and each family's recommended settings filled in for…” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Chaty is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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