Open source local-first projects
Every project in the registry tagged local-first, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Privacy-first knowledge management with block-level linking
Privacy-first knowledge base that connects your notes
OpenHuman is an open source agent harness with local-first memory, agent orchestration, and workflows
Open-source coding agent for your terminal, built in Rust and on a journey of continuous community improvement. Issues and PRs welcome.
The local-first database that runs on every JS runtime and replicates with your existing backend - no vendor, no lock-in - https://rxdb.info/
Task manager built for deep work, privacy, and focus
24/7 screen and audio recorder with AI memory search
Free, open-source AI Office suite: Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDF, Markdown and HTML editors with a built-in AI agent, plus a `genoffice` CLI and agent skill so Clau
A smarter, self-hosted AI assistant — multi-user, multi-agent.
Private meeting notes, no bots, files you own
Private workspace for notes, tasks, and databases
⛷ Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences.
Local-first AI coding agent desktop: Electron + Rust host core + pi Agent Harness + user-installable plugins
Long-horizon agent control plane for durable, governed work across Codex, Claude Code, and other harnesses.
🧩 Content editing tech stack for the web - BlockSuite is a toolkit for building editors and collaborative applications.
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
Apache Maka (Incubating) is a high-performance agent workspace that keeps a complete record of everything it did.
Open-source AI research workbench for scientific research—local-first and model-agnostic.
Self-hosted team workspace with chat, docs, and databases
Versioned Codex instruction deployment with preview, ownership manifests, hook isolation, scenario evaluation, and recovery.
Fast and beautiful note-taking app written in C++. Write down your thoughts.
An offline-first photo manager for large local libraries
Professional-grade, local-first browser extension that transforms any webpage into high-fidelity, LLM-friendly Markdown entirely within the browser's runtime. Z
本地私有、开源的自进化跨平台 AI 内容发现 Agent:先理解你,再主动从 B站、小红书、抖音、YouTube、X、知乎、Reddit、微博等平台与开放 Web 寻找内容。(支持 deepseek harness 插件) | Local-first open-source cross-platform AI cont
Atomic Agent is a local-first AI agent. Runs open-weight models on your own machine via llama.cpp.
Open-source, local-first conversational AI video editor with a professional multi-track timeline, Agent Skills, MCP integration, and Remotion rendering.
Serverless team chat over Tor, no phone number needed
System of record for how agents build software: Built-in rust harness & 20+ CLIs.
Bitterbot - a mesh of agents that turns shared experience into collective capability.
A high-performance, cross-platform editor that supports WYSIWYG Markdown and general text editing.
Waku Waku! Waku Agent is a local-first AI agent harness you actually own, including loop, memory, eval, all in code built to stay legible as it grows.
Local-first browser editor for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF, with an experimental AI assistant. No Office installation or account required.
TidGi is an privacy-in-mind, automated, auto-git-backup, freely-deployed knowledge management Desktop note app, based on Tiddlywiki, with REST API for web-clipp
Peer-to-peer, editor-agnostic collaborative editing of local text files.
Markdown knowledge graph — LSP for your editor, CLI + MCP memory for your AI agents
Browser-native side panel for Hermes Agent — connect web context to your local Hermes runtime.
AI-native workspace for local shells and remote machines.Zero Webview, zero OpenSSL, zero telemetry, and no app subscription.
A markdown editor — and the bridge to your LLM. Local-first, MIT, ~15 MB. Bundled MCP server lets Claude Code / Codex / Cursor drive your vault directly. 14 AI
A browser-based video editor powered by ffmpeg.wasm. No uploads, no servers -- all processing happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly.
An AI co-scientist running on your desktop. Claude Science but better.
An open-source, local-first writing workspace where you can write with Claude Code and Codex, drawing on your own sources and past work.
Monica Pass,Password Management, 2FA Generator
vibe coding 的驾驶舱:左边文件,右边/下边终端,中间看清每一次改动。 / The cockpit for vibe coding: browse files on the left, command agents on the right, watch every change in between.
Open-source, local-first desktop AI research workbench for scientific computing with Python/R, MCP bioinformatics tools, SSH/WSL/GPU runtimes, and OpenAI/Anthro
100% Free, Open-source local-first AI diagramming for architecture diagrams and flowcharts with animated exports.
Give your AI agent a real browser — with a human in the loop. Open-source MCP-native browser agent.
Self-hosted 24/7 personal AI agent that runs on your own machine — memory, schedules, tools and credentials stay local. Single Go binary with MCP.
Supercharge yourself!
Lightweight orchestration harness built for your AI agents. The unfiltered truth about where your project stands.
A simple tool for building stories.
AI gets the context. Not your private data. Local-first privacy proxy for browser chat, AI APIs, and coding agents.
A powerful browser extension that supercharges DeepSeek Chat with custom tooling, persistent memory, and seamless project scaffolding. Generate and download fil
The local-first LLM Wiki: open-source knowledge graph builder, RAG knowledge base, and agent memory store. Built on Andrej Karpathy's pattern. An Obsidian alter
Your thinking deserves a map: an infinite canvas where LLM conversations grow into an editable thought graph. Wires are the context.
Think before doing, prove before saving. Vestige is a local, deterministic safety kernel for AI agents. Every memory write and agent action is recorded in Stra
Open-source database & workspace for AI agents — structured data, durable knowledge, reusable skills, runnable apps, and human review on the writes that matter.
Self-hosted, sharable kanban for humans and agents. One 4.5 MB binary, 4.5 MB of RAM, 10 to 60 tokens per agent reply, starts in 2 ms, zero setup.
Free, open-source AI Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Markdown) — macOS build, one-click install
Embrace a docs-as-code approach to build, version, and publish Git-driven documentation sites using Markdown and a visual editor
Self-hosted folder-based Instagram-style photo and video gallery app.
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source local-first projects are there?
This registry tracks 67 projects tagged local-first, with 413,134 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is SiYuan at 47,033 stars.
Are these local-first projects free to use?
Yes — 65 of the 67 carry an explicit open-source licence across 7 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.
Which local-first project should I choose?
The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.
Are these local-first projects still maintained?
63 of the 67 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.