Looking for alternatives, since the developer has abandoned this app? Here's some options.
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Harsha K
I'm not affiliated with any of these, just providing options to those of you who, like me, got burned by this app.
- BoltAI - This is the absolute best alternative if you're Mac-only. https://boltai.com/. tonsof regular updates.
- Msty - Phenomenal app, multi-plat, lots of great productivity features, update frequently, lots of activity in Discord: https://msty.app/. Free version does a ton.
- Jan.ai - Not nearly as powerful, since it's primarily intended for Local LLM usage but also happens to do some cloud LLM inference as well, but fully open source: https://jan.ai/
- MacAI - Open source, extremely new, Mac-Native, progressing very rapidly: https://github.com/Renset/macai
- SupGPT - decent, not much experience: https://supgpt.app/
Good look to anyone else looking for an alternative.
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Steve S
Thank you, Harsha! I wish I had seen this post before paying for a MindMac license. Anyway, I just tried Msty and MacAI and they are both great. Thanks for the recommendations!
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Johan van de Merwe
BoltAI has a steep price. I have 4 devices, which was no problem with Mindmac license, but BoltAI wants to have 400 USD for it. That's bold.
Chris Flora
Thanks for the link to MacAI - I had not heard of that one and will check it out now! I've been using msty quite a bit, and yeah their free tier is phenomenal.
If you use Obsidian (a free, local-first note taking app), there's a great open-source plugin called Obsidian Copilot. Nice to have it built right in to your note workflow:
For a more technical user, LibreChat is a phenomenal open-source web app that you can self-host. It requires some know-how to get it up and running & exposed to the internet safely, but once it's up you can access it from any device, anywhere, and set up logins for multiple users (friends & family) who can either use the same API keys or separate ones. It also supports agents & tools (including Anthropic's MCP).
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Harsha K
Chris Flora all
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suggestions! Another alternative to LibreChat if you're comfortable with self-hosting is https://github.com/open-webui/open-webuiChris Flora
Harsha K - I tried running open-webui, but got stuck during the docker build steps. Haven't had a chance to dig into why it kept failing on the pip update commands. But yeah, a lot of people seem to be using it with no trouble - I just haven't been able to :D