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AI services and tools that don't farm your data

Self-hosted, end-to-end encrypted, audited. Privacy claims with sources. The list of services where we know what they do with the inputs.

Privacy you can verify

24 curated, receipts-backed across 4 categories.

On-Device AI · 4

Brethof Voice Pro

Offline voice-to-text. Audio, transcripts, and personal training data never leave your machine. 30 transcription languages, 38 for offline translation. *Disclosure: maintained by us.*

on-deviceclosed sourcefreepaid

GPT4All

Privacy-first desktop chat with curated quantised models.

on-deviceopen sourcefree

LM Studio

Polished desktop app for local models. Free for personal + commercial.

on-deviceclosed sourcefree

Ollama

Local LLM runtime. Single binary, no account, no telemetry by default.

on-deviceopen sourcefree

Self-Hostable AI Stacks · 8

Anything LLM

Self-hosted RAG + chat. Workspace per project, all data on your disk.

on-deviceself-hostedopen sourcefree

LibreChat

Multi-model chat platform. Self-host with full audit logging if you want it, none if you don't.

self-hostedopen sourcefree

LocalAI

OpenAI-compatible inference server. Self-host once, swap in any client app.

on-deviceself-hostedopen sourcefree

Onyx (formerly Danswer)

Open-source enterprise search + chat over your team's docs. SSO, audit, all on-prem.

self-hostedopen sourcefree

Open WebUI

Self-hosted chat UI for local + remote LLMs. Pair with Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible backend.

self-hostedopen sourcefree

OpenLLM

Run any open-source LLM as a production-grade endpoint on your Kubernetes / Docker.

self-hostedopen sourcefree

Verba

Self-hosted RAG over your documents. By the Weaviate team.

self-hostedopen sourcefree

vLLM

High-throughput LLM serving. Self-host the same engine the big labs use — no per-token middleman.

self-hostedopen sourcefree

Open-Weights Models You Can Audit · 7

DeepSeek V4

Open-weights frontier reasoning model.

Gemma

Google's open-weights family.

Llama 4

Meta's open-weights family.

Mistral / Mixtral

Permissive licensing, Apache 2.0 weights for older + flagship variants.

Qwen 3.5 / 3.6

Alibaba's strongly-multilingual family.

Qwen3-ASR

Multilingual ASR model. Powers Brethof Voice Pro.

Whisper

OpenAI's open-weights ASR.

Privacy Auditing Tools · 5

Exodus Privacy

Static analysis of Android apps' tracker libraries.

open sourcefreeEU-hosted

Little Snitch

macOS equivalent. The de-facto standard for spotting telemetry.

closed sourcepaidmacOS

mitmproxy

Intercept-and-inspect HTTP/S traffic. See what an "offline" tool actually sends home.

open sourcefree

OpenSnitch

Application-level firewall for Linux. Confirm a desktop AI tool isn't talking to anyone.

open sourcefreeLinux

Wireshark

Packet capture and analysis. Last-resort proof of what crosses the network.

open sourcefree

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