OpenClaw AlternativesAI Chatbots & Task Automation Apps like OpenClaw

Apps similar to OpenClaw include Goose OSS, which is free and open source. Other options are Kimi, Manus, Hermes Agent and NanoClaw. There's no shortage of AI Chatbots like OpenClaw, with more than 100 alternatives for the web, Mac, Windows, Linux and Android.

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  1. Goose OSS icon
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    An open-source platform for seamless automation in engineering tasks, providing local execution and control. Customizable with any LLM for enhanced autonomy, enabling developers to efficiently handle debugging to deployment tasks while preserving privacy.

    145 Goose OSS alternatives

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  2. Kimi icon
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    AI assistant supports complex math, coding, image understanding, and reasoning with up to 128k token processing, short and long chain-of-thought tasks, visual and text input, accurate benchmarks, self-learning ability, and reinforcement learning for improvement.

    120 Kimi alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Windows
    • Mac
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  3. Manus icon
     24 likes

    AI agent bridges thoughts and actions, excelling in work and life tasks like personalized travel, stock analysis, insurance comparisons, and supplier sourcing, autonomously completing tasks and providing insights while users rest.

    113 Manus alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Mac
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  4. Hermes Agent icon
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    The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who...

    76 Hermes Agent alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Android
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Termux
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  5. NanoClaw icon
     18 likes

    Lightweight AI assistant runs in Apple containers with isolated Linux container processes for superior OS-level security, transparency, and privacy compared to complex chatbots, enabling quick code review, easy customization, and minimal dependencies for all users.

    144 NanoClaw alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
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  6. Odysseus icon
     15 likes

    Self-hosted AI workspace offering chat, tool use, and autonomous agent support. Enables email and research tasks securely on user hardware, keeps all data local, requires no external servers, and provides customizable AI workflows for privacy-focused environments.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  7. Khoj icon
     48 likes

    Open-source app offers local or cloud AI chat with major LLMs, advanced semantic search, automation, personal newsletters, document indexing, image generation, and text-to-speech. Access from web, Obsidian, Emacs, desktop, mobile, or messaging platforms.

    44 Khoj alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Python
    • Homebrew
    • Docker
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  8. Meta Muse icon
     13 likes

    An approval-based AI agent that manages email and scheduling, books reservations, tracks spending and subscriptions, compares prices, and monitors health data. It can continue tasks such as trip planning or bill negotiation, then sends alerts when attention is needed.

    25 Meta Muse alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
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  9. Private GPT icon
     36 likes

    Ask questions to your documents without an internet connection, using the power of LLMs. 100% private, no data leaves your execution environment at any point. You can ingest documents and ask questions without an internet connection!

    320 Private GPT alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  10. MiroThinker icon
     11 likes

    MiroThinker is an open-source search agent model, built for tool-augmented reasoning and real-world information seeking, aiming to match the deep research experience of OpenAI Deep Research and Gemini Deep Research.

    89 MiroThinker alternatives

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    • Python
    • Windows
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    • Mac
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Apollo AI icon
     11 likes

    Customizable interface for private, on-device AI model chatting, open source and closed source LLM connections, OpenRouter support, custom backend support, and unified access to language models without reliance on a single provider, ensuring privacy and flexibility.

    97 Apollo AI alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • iPhone
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