otaku is a free, open-source (MIT) roleplay client that runs in the terminal, on macOS and Linux (Windows via WSL). It works with local model servers — llama.cpp, KoboldCpp, Ollama, LM Studio, oMLX — and with OpenRouter and NanoGPT, and needs no infrastructure: no server, Node.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux







