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Jharu -A disk cleaner that can think.

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Free disk cleaner for your AI model and dev caches

FreeOpen sourceNo tracking

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How it works: AI model önbellekleri ve geliştirici çöplerini tanıyıp gigabaytlarca yer açar; telemetri yok, kalıcı silme yok.
What's different: Ücretli CleanMyMac'e karşı ücretsiz alternatif.

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LLMconfigurator.com

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A free tool that checks whether a given GPU can run specific local LLMs and estimates VRAM usage and cloud-vs-local cost.

Domain registered 8 months ago

Free

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How it works: compares GPU specs against 75+ models and includes setup guides for tools like Ollama and LM Studio
Pricing: free
Best for: people deciding whether their hardware can run a local LLM

Watched for 11 days · last checked 5d ago

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Vellium

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A free, open-source desktop app for AI character chat, roleplay and long-form writing, where your data stays in a local database even with a cloud AI backend.

FreeWorks offlineOpen source

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How it works: A desktop AI workspace for character chat, multi-character roleplay, and long-form writing with RAG, LoreBooks, and MCP tools and plugins; you bring your own backend, such as OpenAI-compatible APIs, OpenRouter, LM Studio, Ollama, or KoboldCpp, while chats, characters, projects, and knowledge are stored in a local SQLite database.
What's different: Keeps your data in a local database even when you connect a cloud AI backend, and is free and open source.
Pricing: Free and open source.
Best for: Writers and roleplayers who want to choose their own AI backend while keeping their data local. Native builds are available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Watched for 14 days · last checked 3d ago

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Freebird AI

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A free, lighter AI coding assistant built for indie developers and small teams as an alternative to Cursor and Copilot, running fully private and local via Ollama.

Free

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How it works: Multi-file agent mode, inline edits, semantic codebase search, and AI commit messages, running fully private and unlimited via Ollama.
Pricing: 20 real AI edits/day forever free; Pro $6/mo or Team $25/mo for more.
Best for: Indie developers and small teams who want an AI coding assistant without enterprise pricing or throttled quotas.

Watched for 12 days · last checked 6d ago

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PopGuy

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A Mac text-selection toolbar that improves, translates, defines, or runs custom AI actions on selected text, using your own AI key or fully local models via Ollama.

FreeNo subscription

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How it works: Select text in any Mac app, use the floating toolbar to run built-in or custom AI actions, either with your own API key or 100% locally through Ollama or built-in models.
Pricing: Free tier included; one-time $15 Pro upgrade, no subscription.

Watched for 12 days · last checked 8d ago

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A self-hosted, open-source AI coding agent that runs on your local Ollama models and can be driven from Slack, Telegram, Discord, or the web, with human-in-the-loop plan approval before it edits code.

FreeData stays with youOpen sourceSelf-hosted

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How it works: Uses a ReAct architecture with human-in-the-loop plan approval, deterministic edits, and PR creation; supports DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, Mistral, OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini models.
Pricing: Free and open source.

Watched for 12 days · last checked 9d ago

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Smeltcore

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Benchmark database showing which open-weight AI models run on which consumer GPUs, with install recipes and a GPU advisor.

Domain registered 2 months ago

FreeNo sign-up

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How it works: Provides honest benchmarks for 84 open-weight AI models across 27 consumer GPUs from RTX 3060 to Apple Silicon, each pair rated as runs, tight fit, or won't fit with real speed and VRAM numbers, plus 800+ step-by-step install recipes for llama.cpp, Ollama, ComfyUI, and MLX, and a GPU Advisor.
What's different: No invented numbers.
Pricing: Free under CC BY-SA, no signup.

Watched for 9 days · last checked 3d ago

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Linggen

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An open-source Mac app that runs local AI mini-apps, including a private finance analyzer that redacts data before AI sees it.

FreeOpen source

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How it works: Runs AI mini-apps locally on Mac; the lead app is a private CFO that turns bank/card CSV or PDF exports into spend reports (trends, subscriptions, duplicate charges) with account numbers redacted before any AI sees them. Also includes a music DJ with karaoke, a Mac health scanner, and cross-agent memory shared with Claude Code and Codex.
Pricing: Open source; free hosted tier, or bring your own OpenAI-compatible/Ollama model.
Watch out: macOS only.

Watched for 8 days · last checked 6d ago

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Atlarix

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A desktop coding harness built specifically around open-weight models like DeepSeek, Qwen and Kimi, instead of bolting them onto a Claude or GPT-first interface as an afterthought.

FreeWorks offline

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How it works: A desktop AI coding harness built around open-weight models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, MiniMax) instead of Claude/GPT, using a structural + lexical code-retrieval engine (Blueprint) that builds a real dependency graph of the codebase rather than embeddings or a vector DB.
What's different: Built specifically for open-weight models' weaker context discipline, instead of treating them as an afterthought behind a Claude/GPT-first interface.
Pricing: Free.
Best for: Developers who want to use open-weight models like DeepSeek, Qwen, or Kimi for coding with retrieval built for their limitations.
Watch out: Depends on local tools like Ollama and MCP — offline/no-cloud setup requires configuring those dependencies yourself.

Watched for 18 days · last checked 2d ago

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growths.dev

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A guide site teaching setup of Claude Code, Codex, OpenRouter, and local LLMs like Ollama.

Domain registered 2 months ago

Free

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How it works: Beginner-friendly guides covering how to install Ollama, run LLMs locally, and set up Claude Code, Codex, and OpenRouter.
Pricing: Free.

Watched for 9 days · last checked 6d ago

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WisprFree

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A voice-to-text app that transcribes on-device and optionally cleans up grammar with a user-chosen AI, positioned as a free alternative to Wispr Flow.

FreeWorks offlineOpen source

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How it works: Transcribes speech on-device (Parakeet/Whisper/Cohere), then optionally uses a chosen AI (Gemini, OpenAI, OpenRouter or local Ollama) to remove filler words and fix grammar; API keys stay in the Keychain.
What's different: Positioned as a free alternative to Wispr Flow, fully offline if you skip the AI cleanup step.
Pricing: Free, open-source.
Best for: People wanting private voice-to-text across any app.

Watched for 3 days · last checked 1d ago

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VRAM Shield

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A lightweight Windows utility monitors and manages GPU memory temperature during AI inference or gaming, for owners of high-performance laptops trying to avoid thermal throttling.

Domain registered 5 months ago

FreeNo subscription

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How it works: Monitors GPU memory junction temperature via low-level hardware telemetry and applies software-defined duty-cycling (millisecond-level pulse throttling) to prevent thermal-driven performance drops during AI inference or gaming.
What's different: Targets memory junction temperature specifically, which standard tools like MSI Afterburner only tune for the GPU core, not the memory hotspot that triggers emergency throttling.
Pricing: Pulse Throttling is free.
Best for: Owners of high-performance gaming or AI laptops running sustained local inference (Stable Diffusion, llama.cpp, Ollama) who see performance drop from memory overheating.

Watched for 9 days · last checked 9d ago

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