The best foundry-local alternatives

meetily

Zackriya-Solutions/meetily

Privacy first, AI meeting assistant with 4x faster Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization built on Rust. 100% local processing. no cloud required. Meetily (Meetly Ai - https://meetily.ai) is the #1 Self-hosted, Open-source Ai meeting note taker for macOS & Windows. Understand How to write meeting minutes

Choose meetily if…

• you would rather work in Rust than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (32.4k)
• you specifically need ai or ai-meeting-assistant

Shares local-ai, speech-to-text, whisper with foundry-local.

ODS

Osmantic/ODS

Turn your PC, Mac, or Linux box into an AI server. LLM inference, chat UI, voice, agents, workflows, RAG, and image generation.

Choose ODS if…

• you would rather work in Python than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (7.8k)
• you specifically need ai-agents or amd

Shares local-ai, speech-to-text with foundry-local.

llamafile

mozilla-ai/llamafile

Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.

Choose llamafile if…

• you want the more widely starred option (26.6k)
• you specifically need cross-platform or gguf

Shares local-ai, speech-to-text with foundry-local.

screenpipe

screenpipe/screenpipe

YC (S26) | Open Computer History | Record your screen continuously locally and provide context to your agents (Claude, Codex, Openclaw, Hermes, Runner...)

Choose screenpipe if…

• you would rather work in Rust than C++
• you want the more widely starred option (22.2k)
• you specifically need agents or agi

Shares local-ai, speech-to-text with foundry-local.

inference

xorbitsai/inference

Swap GPT for any LLM by changing a single line of code. Xinference lets you run open-source, speech, and multimodal models on cloud, on-prem, or your laptop — all through one unified, production-ready inference API.

Choose inference if…

• you would rather work in Python than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (9.6k)
• you specifically need artificial-intelligence or deployment

Shares whisper with foundry-local.

voicebox

jamiepine/voicebox

The open-source AI voice studio. Clone, dictate, create.

Choose voicebox if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (59.3k)
• you specifically need ai or cuda

Shares whisper with foundry-local.

leon

leon-ai/leon

🧠 Leon is your open-source personal assistant.

Choose leon if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (17.6k)
• you specifically need ai or ai-agent

Shares speech-to-text with foundry-local.

Soup

MakazhanAlpamys/Soup

Fine-tune LLMs from one YAML. Layer streaming trains an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU.

Choose Soup if…

• you would rather work in Python than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (10.1k)
• you specifically need cli or consumer-gpu

Shares local-ai with foundry-local.

GenieX

qualcomm/GenieX

Run frontier LLMs and VLMs locally on Qualcomm devices across NPU, GPU, and CPU with a few lines of code

Choose GenieX if…

• you would rather work in Rust than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
• you want the more widely starred option (8.5k)
• you specifically need gemma4 or go

Shares local-ai with foundry-local.

Text-Grab

TheJoeFin/Text-Grab

Use OCR in Windows quickly and easily with Text Grab. With optional background process and notifications.

Choose Text-Grab if…

• you would rather work in C# than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (5.1k)
• you specifically need dotnet or msix

Shares local-ai with foundry-local.

MTPLX

youssofal/MTPLX

3x faster speeds on MLX | Qwen 3.8 27B | Native MTP Speculative Decoding On Apple Silicon With No External Drafter.

Choose MTPLX if…

• you would rather work in Python than C++
• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• you specifically need anthropic-compatible or apple-silicon

Shares local-ai with foundry-local.

Personal AI desktop agent for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android & iOS. Set a goal, it works on its own. Teams (pair two desktops, agents + humans), Agent2Agent, Workflows, Codework, multi-agent orgs, desktop + browser automation. 15+ AI providers, BYOK. No Docker, no terminal. Agent Skills (SKILL.md). Migration importer. Recurring autonomous tasks.

Choose skales if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than C++
• you specifically need agentic-ai or ai-agent

Shares local-ai with foundry-local.