Software · AI chatbots & assistants

renfield

Self-hosted AI assistant with voice satellites, 100+ tool integrations, RAG knowledge base, and full offline capability. Built with FastAPI + React + Ollama.

Completely free
the web
Open source
No account

Overview

renfield is an AI chat assistant, available on the web.

Features described in its GitHub repository: self-hosting on your own server, chat with your documents, read-aloud, casting to other devices (Chromecast, DLNA…), voice input and commands.

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

“Self-hosted AI assistant with voice satellites, 100+ tool integrations, RAG knowledge base, and full offline capability.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Self-hosted AI assistant with voice satellites, 100+ tool integrations, RAG knowledge base, and full offline capability.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Self-hosted AI assistant with voice satellites, 100+ tool integrations, RAG knowledge base, and full offline capability.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Wake word, STT, TTS — fully local. • 10 MCP servers, 100+ tools, Agent Loop — Weather, search, news, calendar, smart home, media, DLNA, documents, email, workflows.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Wake word, STT, TTS — fully local. • 10 MCP servers, 100+ tools, Agent Loop — Weather, search, news, calendar, smart home, media, DLNA, documents, email, workflows.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Chat Interface — Conversation history, streaming responses, voice input” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

renfield 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 GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) — 10 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub ebongard/renfield (MIT)

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