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Top 23 ollama Open-Source Projects
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ollama
Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.1, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.
This guide shows how to swap out every cloud API with a local Ollama server running qwen3-coder:30b. Same tools, same workflows, no data leaving your network.
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Project mention: Quick and easy local AI RAG setup with JetBrains IDE integration and browser UI | dev.to | 2026-06-02
To get a local web UI (that is very similar to CharGPT) that supports Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), workflows and many other features, we'll use Open WebUI (https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui). Although it can be setup using locally installed Python, I've decided to try out their Docker image instead. Since I have an Nvidia card, I've used their Nvidia GPU supported docker image.
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ragflow
RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs
Project mention: I Scanned 5 Popular Open-Source AI Projects for EU AI Act Compliance. Here's What I Found. | dev.to | 2026-03-31I ran AIR Blackbox (the scanner itself), Browser Use (79K+ stars), RAGFlow (76K+ stars), LiteLLM (23K+ stars), and Superlinked (15K+ stars) through the same compliance checks.
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LobeHub
The ultimate space for work and life — to find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you.
Project mention: Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-24You can set this up yourself with API keys to the corresponding providers and creating an Agent Group in https://github.com/lobehub/lobehub. Agent groups allow you to easily create a room of agents and have them discuss any of your topics. Easily make agents with types and skills, it even assists in drafting starting prompts and even team members depending what your query (and selected model) is.
You can self-host as well, but not via desktop app. Sever setup required.
Be careful of your token context, you can easily rack up costs if you leave Opus selected as the model and get lost in some rabbit hole of results.
Enjoy enjoy!
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anything-llm
Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience
Project mention: NVIDIA RTX Spark: What the Backlash Gets Wrong About AI on Your Desktop [2026] | dev.to | 2026-06-04The headline marketing number is "1 petaflop" of AI performance. Sounds staggering. Tim Carambat, creator of AnythingLLM and one of the most credible voices in the local AI developer community, has already questioned this figure. His point is one I've validated repeatedly in my own benchmarking: for running large language models locally, memory bandwidth is the actual bottleneck, not raw FLOPS. You can have all the tensor cores in the world, but if you can't feed them data fast enough, your Llama 3 inference is still going to crawl.
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siyuan
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
Project mention: SiYuan: The Open-Source Knowledge Base That Lets Developers Truly Own Their Thoughts | dev.to | 2025-11-28View the Project on GitHub
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dyad
Local, open-source AI app builder for power users ✨ v0 / Lovable / Replit / Bolt alternative 🌟 Star if you like it!
Project mention: Vibe coded Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-27One dev of a Lovable competitor pointed me to the rules thats supposed to ensure queries are limited to that user's data. This seems like "pretty please?" to my amateur eyes.
https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/blob/de2cc2b48f2c8bfa401608c...
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kirara-ai
🤖 可 DIY 的 多模态 AI 聊天机器人 | 🚀 快速接入 微信、 QQ、Telegram、等聊天平台 | 🦈支持DeepSeek、Grok、Claude、Ollama、Gemini、OpenAI | 工作流系统、网页搜索、AI画图、人设调教、虚拟女仆、语音对话 |
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deepwiki-open
Open Source DeepWiki: AI-Powered Wiki Generator for GitHub/Gitlab/Bitbucket Repositories. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/gMwThUMeme
Project mention: Open Source DeepWiki: AI-Powered Wiki Generator for GitHub/Gitlab Repos | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-01 -
Project mention: Preview your coding agents' work without painful CIs or servers; just paste a prompt | dev.to | 2026-05-05
Trying to preview a WIP branch of LangBot :
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WeKnora
Open-source LLM knowledge platform: turn raw documents into a queryable RAG, an autonomous reasoning agent, and a self-maintaining Wiki.
Project mention: WeKnora – LLM-Powered Document Understanding and Retrieval Framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-14 -
ChuanhuChatGPT
GUI for ChatGPT API and many LLMs. Supports agents, file-based QA, GPT finetuning and query with web search. All with a neat UI.
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meetily
Privacy first, AI meeting assistant with 4x faster Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization built on Rust. 100% local processing. no cloud required. Meetily (Meetly Ai - https://meetily.ai) is the #1 Self-hosted, Open-source Ai meeting note taker for macOS & Windows.
Download Free → | Star on GitHub →
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langchain4j
LangChain4j is an idiomatic, open-source Java library for building LLM-powered applications on the JVM. It offers a unified API over popular LLM providers and vector stores, and makes implementing tool calling (including MCP support), agents and RAG easy. It integrates seamlessly with enterprise Java frameworks like Quarkus and Spring Boot.
In this article, we'll build a small, memory-backed assistant with LangChain4j and Oracle AI Database. The assistant can search prior incidents, runbooks, decisions, and shift handoffs to answer questions. It can write new memories back to the database so they become searchable in any session. Additionally, all user, agent, and tool messages are logged to database table for observability and auditing.
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shell_gpt
A command-line productivity tool powered by AI large language models like GPT-5, will help you accomplish your tasks faster and more efficiently.
Project mention: Supercharge Your Terminal: ShellGPT + ChromaDB + LangChain for Context-Aware Automation | dev.to | 2025-09-01🗃 To explore ShellGPT in depth, including installation instructions, usage examples, and advanced configuration options, head over to the official ShellGPT GitHub repository.
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LEANN
[MLsys2026]: RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.
Project mention: First lightweight local semantic search MCP for Claude Code | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-15@Berkeley SkyLab, we’re the first to bring semantic search to Claude Code with a fully local index in a novel, lightweight structure — check it out at LEANN(https://github.com/yichuan-w/LEANN).
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Project mention: https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/runanywhere-sdks/pull/296 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-25
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Code Examples
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aichat
All-in-one LLM CLI tool featuring Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, AI Tools & Agents, with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more.
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local-deep-research
~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents. Everything Local & Encrypted.
Project mention: Local Deep Research: Run Your Own AI Research Assistant, Fully Private | dev.to | 2026-05-06Local Deep Research is a self-hosted AI research assistant. You give it a question. It searches across multiple sources — web, arXiv, PubMed, Wikipedia, GitHub, your own local documents — iterates on what it finds, and produces a structured report with citations.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Quick and easy local AI RAG setup with JetBrains IDE integration and browser UI
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Index
What are some of the best open-source ollama projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | ollama | 173,220 |
| 2 | open-webui | 139,852 |
| 3 | NextChat | 88,169 |
| 4 | ragflow | 81,919 |
| 5 | LobeHub | 78,186 |
| 6 | anything-llm | 61,083 |
| 7 | siyuan | 44,301 |
| 8 | chatbox | 40,313 |
| 9 | dyad | 20,516 |
| 10 | kirara-ai | 18,785 |
| 11 | deepwiki-open | 16,731 |
| 12 | LangBot | 16,193 |
| 13 | WeKnora | 15,967 |
| 14 | ChuanhuChatGPT | 15,318 |
| 15 | meetily | 12,543 |
| 16 | langchain4j | 12,221 |
| 17 | shell_gpt | 12,110 |
| 18 | LEANN | 11,827 |
| 19 | runanywhere-sdks | 10,347 |
| 20 | ollama-python | 10,118 |
| 21 | aichat | 10,086 |
| 22 | morphic | 8,883 |
| 23 | local-deep-research | 8,374 |
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