8 free GitHub repos with 792K stars that take your AI off Big Tech's servers
alex_verem · x · 2026-11-04
alexverem lists 8 free GitHub repos (792K combined stars) that replace apps keeping your chats, photos or camera footage on Big Tech servers, all self-hosted:
- Ollama — run DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemma, gpt-oss on your own laptop
- Open WebUI — self-hosted ChatGPT-style UI for your own models
- colibri — pure C, zero deps, runs a 744B MoE model on 25GB RAM by streaming from disk
- ComfyUI — Midjourney-style images locally, no subscription
- whisper.cpp — offline speech-to-text for calls and voice notes
- Immich — self-hosted Google Photos with face and object search
- Frigate — turn cameras into Ring-style AI cameras with footage kept at home
- paperless-ngx — self-hosted document management: scan, index, archive
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