Best Open Source local first Libraries
A curated list of the most popular GitHub repositories tagged with local first. Select any project to visualize its architecture and dive into the codebase using RepoMind's AI engine.
#1nexu-io/open-design
🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images & video — real files, HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export. 🤖 Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / DeepSeek Harness / OpenCode & 20+ CLIs via BYOK.
#2siyuan-note/siyuan
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
#3logseq/logseq
A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: https://discuss.logseq.com/t/logseq-product-roadmap/34267
#4Hmbown/CodeWhale
Open-source coding agent for your terminal, built in Rust and on a journey of continuous community improvement. Issues and PRs welcome.
#5TriliumNext/Trilium
Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
#6super-productivity/super-productivity
Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, GitLab, GitHub and Open Project.
#7AprilNEA/OpenLogi
⚡️A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.
#8electric-sql/electric
Read-path sync engine for Postgres that handles partial replication, data delivery and fan-out.
#9basicmachines-co/basic-memory
AI conversations that actually remember. Never re-explain your project to your AI again. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/tyvKNccgqN
#10aipoch/open-science
Open-Source AI research workbench with scientific agents for reproducible research and discovery.
#11apache/maka
Apache Maka (Incubating) is a local-first AI agent workspace. Model messages, tool calls, tool results, permission decisions, and termination events are recorded as an append-only log.
#12Javis603/token-monitor
Local-first desktop widget for tracking token usage, costs, and limits across 32+ AI coding tools—including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and OpenClaw—with multi-device sync.
#13xiufengsun/TokenTracker
Local-first AI token usage & cost tracker for 31 coding tools incl. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini & DeepSeek Harness—with native apps. Never reads prompts.
#14Pinvou/pinvou-agent
Open-source desktop AI agent for tools, files, knowledge, workflows, and real deliverables.
#15ChesterRa/cccc
Coordinate your coding agents like a group chat — read receipts, delivery tracking, and remote ops from your phone. One pip install, zero infrastructure. A production‑minded orchestrator for 24/7 workflow
#16BradGroux/veritas-kanban
Lightweight orchestration harness built for your AI agents. The unfiltered truth about where your project stands.
#17artokun/comfyui-mcp
Local-first, agent-native control plane for ComfyUI — MCP server + sidebar agent that generates images, video & audio, authors and runs workflows, and edits your live graph in natural language on ANY LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, offline Ollama, or any hosted model). 178 tools, 36 AI skills, 55 installer packs. Local, LAN, VPS, or Comfy Cloud.
#18vibeinging/dsh-desktop
DeepSeek Harness Desktop App: a local AI desktop workspace for DSH Sessions, projects, files, web research, plugins, and Office artifacts.
#19anyproto/anytype-swift
Official Anytype client for iOS
#20avibe-bot/avibe
The local-first Agent OS — your AI partner lives on your own machine. Drive the official Claude Code, Codex & OpenCode from your browser or any chat app.
#21liliu-z/stashbase
Turn local files into searchable context for AI agents.
#22Lyellr88/marm-memory
Local-first 3-in-1 AI memory layer & MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Grok, Gemini, VS Code and Cursor. Fuses session history, codebase indexing & concept graphs in SQLite. Enables zero-cloud, privacy-first context & instant recall, supports multi-agent swarms.
#23Peiiii/nextclaw
An open-source, extensible, self-hosted agent workspace with multi-runtime support for Codex, Claude Code, and more, plus reusable local apps for custom interfaces and services.
#24px0-ai/px0
An agent that works the way you work.
#25smixs/iva-agent
AI assistant in Telegram that remembers everything and helps you run your life. Self-hosted in one command.
#26joshuaswarren/remnic
Open-source memory and context for user-aware agents: scoped memory, provenance, retrieval quality, correction, boundaries, evals, and MCP/HTTP access.
#27NimaChu/my-wiki
Local-first AI knowledge app and Agent Skill with evidence-backed Wiki, an interactive knowledge universe, Viki Q&A, and shareable knowledge galaxies.
#28xixihhhh/hotclip
免费开源的 AI 剪辑 / 直播切片工具:长视频、直播回放、播客一键切成爆款竖屏短视频,直发抖音/快手/B站/小红书/视频号——AI 找高光金句、弹幕热度进爆点判断、自动加字幕、横屏转竖屏,本地运行无水印不上传 | Free open-source Opus Clip alternative, 100% local: AI clips long videos & livestream VODs into viral 9:16 shorts for TikTok & YouTube Shorts. No credits, no watermark, no uploads. Win/macOS/Linux.
#29Drakonis96/nodus
Open-source research workspace for connecting sources, evidence, notes and ideas. Built for academic research with Zotero integration. Available on MacOS, Windows and Linux.
#30Perseus-Computing-LLC/perseus-vault
Persistent, encrypted memory for AI agents: one Rust binary, one file, no cloud. 122 canonical MCP tools, hybrid recall, bi-temporal history, AES-256-GCM. Local-first, air-gap ready, MIT.
#31vastsa/PI-Desktop
Local-first AI coding agent desktop: Electron + Rust host core + pi Agent Harness + user-installable plugins