RecurseChat

RecurseChat is a personal AI app for macOS that runs local AI offline and privately, as well as a powerful ChatGPT/Claude client. It offers a wide range of features to enhance your AI interaction experience: chat with local documents (PDF, markdown, and txt) completely offline, multimodal chat, import and search your ChatGPT chat history, fast full-text search across thousands of messages, and the ability to use multiple AI models in the same chat session.

RecurseChat provides a philosophy focused on simplicity, data ownership, and privacy. It aims to be intuitive for beginners while offering customization for power users, with the option to export chat history and work offline with local models.

The app runs inside Mac App Sandbox and supports local and online models, including GGUF files, Hugging Face endpoints, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints. It emphasizes privacy, with chats not leaving the device when using local models and an option to avoid data use when using online models.

RecurseChat supports various models and configurations, allowing imports of local GGUF models, Ollama models, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints, while prioritizing user data ownership and privacy.

Use cases

• Owner-ship over chat history with export options