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by gtirloni 558 days ago
Tangent question: is there anything better on the desktop than ChatGPT's native client? I find it too simple to organize chats but I'm having a hard time evaluating the dozen or so apps (most are disguise for some company's API service). Any recommendations? macOS/Linux compatibility preferred.
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Telosnex: every platform, native. Also, has web. Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, Groq, Gemini, and any local LLM on literally every platform. and you can bring your own API keys, and the best search available. Pay as you go, with everything at cost if you pay $10/month. Otherwise, free. Everythings stored in simple JSON.
There’s https://www.typingmind.com/ local-only (no server) and built by an indie dev
Peesonally im a Typing Mind user but it got too slow and buggy with long cbaglts. Ended up with boltai which is a natice mac app and found it very good after months of heavy use. I think it could also improve navigation coloring or iconography to help distinguish chats better but its my favorite so far.
I'm working on a native LLM client that is beautiful and fast[1], developed in Qt C++ and QML - so it can run on Windows, macOS, Linux (and mobile). Would love to get your feedback once it launches.

[1] https://rubymamistvalove.com/client.mp4