Jan
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6recommend
0warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Oct 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“jan.ai is the F/LOSS alternative to it.”
“is similar and works great for me”
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“Open WebUI or Jan (https://www.jan.ai/)”
“Jan(https://www.jan.ai/) is another open-source desktop app with a clean chat interface”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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All comments 11
“I do think you could take a look at ChatWise, Kelivo, Rikkahub, Jan, and Waku if you wanted to see who your real competitors are.”
“jan.ai is the F/LOSS alternative to it.”
“I can't really tell why would I use this over like lm studio, jan.ai and such?”
“which is what https://jan.ai uses”
“Jan and LMStudio are other options for actually running a model on your own hardware”
“is similar and works great for me”
“Open WebUI or Jan (https://www.jan.ai/)”
“Jan(https://www.jan.ai/) is another open-source desktop app with a clean chat interface”
“Jan: https://www.jan.ai/”
“Give Jan (https://www.jan.ai/) a try for instance.”
“https://github.com/janhq/jan”