Otaku: an open-source LLM frontend for roleplay and local chat, a SillyTavern alternative
Fickle_Tradition4491 · reddit · 2026-09-06
Otaku is a free, open-source (MIT) LLM frontend positioned as an alternative to SillyTavern, focused on roleplay; disabling lore extraction turns it into a general-purpose chat UI like Open WebUI, working with local backends such as Ollama or cloud models.
- Two interfaces (customizable web UI and terminal UI) with identical features; interactive demos available on the site
- Auto-detects local installs of Ollama, oMLX, LM Studio, llama.cpp and KoboldCpp; cloud providers like OpenRouter and NanoGPT supported via API key
- Ships with sample stories to get started
- Works on macOS, Linux and Windows; install via uv
The author, building it as a side project, is soliciting community feedback.
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