ExpressAI AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Large Language Model (LLM) Tools

The best Large Language Model (LLM) alternative to ExpressAI is Lumo by Proton, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to ExpressAI and many of them are Large Language Model (LLM) Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Large Language Model (LLM) Tool alternatives to ExpressAI are DuckDuckGo AI Chat, Jan.ai, AnythingLLM and Alpaca - Ollama Client.

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  1. Lumo by Proton icon
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    Privacy-first AI assistant utilizing zero-access encryption and open-source code, ensuring no data logging, profiling, or training on chats, providing user-controlled, encrypted conversations, with compliance under GDPR and no sharing with third parties.

    125 Lumo by Proton alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
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    • F-Droid
     
  2. Duck.ai is a free feature that allows you to have private conversations with 3rd-party AI chat models, anonymized by us. It currently supports Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 4, Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini.

    126 DuckDuckGo AI Chat alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • DuckDuckGo
     
  3. Jan.ai icon
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    Open-source offline AI platform supports local LLMs including Llama, Gemma, Qwen, GPT-oss, integrates cloud services like OpenAI and Anthropic, enables custom assistant creation, offers OpenAI-compatible API on localhost, operates across diverse hardware and ensures privacy.

    241 Jan.ai alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  4. AnythingLLM icon
     50 likes

    Open-source privacy-focused chatbot platform allowing unlimited document uploads, multi-user and single-user modes, AI-powered chat with documents, vector database and LLM compatibility, customizable interface, message history, secure desktop deployment, and full user controls.

    215 AnythingLLM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  5. Poe icon
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    Poe is a web-based AI platform that hosts multiple assistant bots—including Claude and various GPT and image/audio models—to provide conversational Q&A, image and audio generation, and automated AI workflows.

    369 Poe alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  6. Ensu icon
     24 likes

    Private offline AI chat using local language models on mobile and desktop, no accounts or tracking, open source Rust core, privacy-first design, cross-platform availability, ideal for confidential conversations, with end-to-end encrypted sync coming soon.

    55 Ensu alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  7. Apertus icon
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    As a fully open language model, Apertus allows researchers, professionals and enthusiasts to build upon the model and adapt it to their specific needs, as well as to inspect any part of the training process.

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Khoj icon
     40 likes

    Khoj is an open-source AI second brain that learns from your notes (Obsidian, EMACS), documents, and has access to the internet. It can replace your search engine, help you with reading papers, and get you transparent, fast answers.

    196 Khoj alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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    • Android
    • Docker
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
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