AI Desktop Apps

Desktop workspace for fiction writers combining drafts, annotations, and AI rewrite proposals under the author's own control.

Best for: novelists and fiction writers wanting AI suggestions, not auto-rewrites

Desktop agent workspace that runs work off your calendar and connects to thousands of tools over MCP

Best for: People whose work is already organised around meetings and deadlines

Reads receipt and invoice photos with an AI vision model, renames the files, and builds an Excel report.

Best for: Freelancers and small business owners doing quarterly expense reconciliation

Free, open-source desktop app from Block for wiring together AI agents, model providers, and automations on a canvas.

Best for: Engineers who want a local, inspectable agent workspace instead of a hosted subscription

Open-source desktop chat app that runs open models offline or connects to cloud providers, plus a terminal coding agent.

Best for: Privacy-focused users who want an offline ChatGPT-style app

Desktop app for downloading and running open-weight LLMs locally, now with a Bionic agent and optional US-hosted cloud models.

Best for: Developers testing open-weight models behind an OpenAI-compatible local endpoint

Desktop hotkey that rewrites, translates, shortens or proofreads the text you selected in any Mac or Windows app.

Best for: Editing text inside apps that have no AI features of their own

Mac menu bar and Dock app that opens the ChatGPT web interface from a keyboard shortcut, with custom CSS and JavaScript.

Best for: Mac users who want ChatGPT on a global shortcut

Desktop app that live-translates English meetings into 31 languages with AI summaries, no bot joining the call.

Best for: Non-native English speakers attending English meetings regularly

Desktop denoise, deblur and upscaling up to 32K for Windows and Mac, sold as a licence not credits

Best for: Photographers batch-processing large sets without wanting a per-image cost

Desktop image generator where you block out a rough 3D scene first, then let the model render it

Best for: Artists who need the same character or product across several camera angles

Group chat where people and several AI agents share one thread and review each other's drafts

Best for: Teams who already run more than one model and want the outputs compared in one place

Free open-source desktop app that builds web apps from prompts on your machine using your own AI keys or local models.

Best for: Hobbyists and students who want a free app builder with their own API keys

Desktop app that erases watermarks, logos, stamps, and other unwanted objects from photos using AI or manual selection.

Best for: Batch-removing watermarks or logos from many photos on desktop

Desktop app that reads an incoming message and drafts the reply for you to edit

Best for: People who switch between Outlook, Gmail and other clients

Desktop app that runs LinkedIn prospecting from your own machine instead of a cloud proxy

Best for: founders and SDRs prospecting on LinkedIn themselves

Desktop app that drafts cited academic and biomedical research papers, from Insilico Medicine.

Best for: Biomedical and scientific researchers drafting papers with heavy citation needs