OpenClient: Private AI Chat

OpenClient is an independent AI chat client for professionals and developers who run their own LLM infrastructure. Connect it to your self-hosted server and chat with your models, without mandatory subscriptions.

Compatible with LiteLLM, Ollama, and OpenAI-compatible servers. Supports many popular model families, including GPT, Claude, Llama, Gemini, Mistral, and more.

Chat
• Real-time streaming responses with Markdown and code block rendering
• Collapsible Thinking section for supported reasoning models
• Attach photos, camera captures, and PDF documents for multimodal conversations
• Drag and drop text, images, and files from other apps (Split View, Stage Manager, Finder on macOS)
• Dictate messages with Speech-to-Text and listen with Text-to-Speech
• Web search through the search provider configured on your server
• Tool-calling support for models that provide function calling
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools, browse, enable, and use external tools from MCP servers like GitHub, databases, and more, configured on your LiteLLM server
• Favourite messages to bookmark and revisit quickly
• Per-conversation system prompt and model parameters (temperature, max tokens, top-p)

Conversations
• Full conversation history with search, pins, and tags
• Branch from any message to explore alternatives, then edit and regenerate
• Media & Files gallery to browse all attached images and documents
• Share content from any app directly into a new conversation via Share Sheet
• Apple Shortcuts integration: New Chat, Search Chats, Send File to Chat
• Home Screen widgets: New Chat, Search, Quick Actions, Conversations Overview
• Control Center button: start a new chat from Control Center
• iCloud sync across your Apple devices
• Export conversations to JSON
• Token usage per message and estimated conversation cost

Models
• Browse available models with capability badges (vision, tools, JSON mode)
• Model detail sheet with context window, pricing, provider, and capabilities
• Voice selector for Text-to-Speech models
• Switch models per conversation

Personalization
• Prompt template library for recurring workflows
• User profile to provide name and context
• Memory to save facts and preferences, synced via iCloud

On macOS
• Menu bar companion for quick access without opening the main window

Privacy
• OpenClient does not operate a backend service for your chats. Your requests are sent to the server you configure.
• OpenClient does not include advertising SDKs or third-party analytics trackers.

This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0: https://github.com/ArtCC/openclient-llm

Privacy Policy: https://arturocarreterocalvo.com/openclient-llm/privacy
Terms of Use: https://arturocarreterocalvo.com/openclient-llm/terms

OpenClient is an independent client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the model or platform providers referenced above.