The plug-and-play local AI studio — uncensored chat, image & video generation, and a coding agent. One installer. No cloud.
Install it like a normal app and you're chatting, generating images, and making videos in minutes. No command line, no Docker, no config files. Auto-detects 12 local backends. Your AI, your hardware, your rules.
The only desktop app that runs AI chat, image, and video generation — locally, one click, no cloud.
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Locally Uncensored (LU) is a free, open-source local AI studio for Windows and Linux. It combines four things most local-AI tools keep separate — AI chat, a coding agent, image generation, and video generation — in one desktop app, and it installs like a normal program: run one installer, let the setup wizard detect (or install) an AI engine, one-click a model, start typing.
- Uncensored by default — first-class support for abliterated models that answer directly, without refusals or lectures. Mainstream models are in the same menu.
- 100% local and private — zero telemetry, zero analytics, works fully offline after model download. Cloud providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Groq…) are optional and use your own keys.
- Plug and play — auto-detects 12 local backends (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, KoboldCpp, Jan, llama.cpp, LocalAI, GPT4All, TabbyAPI, Aphrodite, SGLang, TGI). Nothing installed? One click installs the engine for you.
- Free forever — AGPL-3.0. The models are open weights. No subscription, no credits, no rate limits.
New to local AI? Start with the 5-minute beginner guide — no command line anywhere.
| Chat that draws your images | Built-in image & video studio |
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| Coding Agent reviews & fixes | Agent Mode builds it for you |
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Grab the latest release from Releases:
| Platform | File | Status |
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| Windows 10/11 | .exe (NSIS, recommended) or .msi |
Fully tested, signed auto-update channel |
| Linux | .deb / .rpm / .AppImage |
Packages on every release |
| macOS | — | Coming soon (source builds via npm run tauri build) |
Antivirus warning? Some engines flag unsigned NSIS installers that download other binaries — a false positive. The installer is built by GitHub Actions from the public source on
master, and the auto-update channel is signed against a public minisign key. Verification steps: SECURITY.md.
Current release: v2.5.7 (July 2026) — portable-friendly installers for Windows and Linux (no admin rights required), now under the short in-app name LU by LU Labs. Full history in Releases and CHANGELOG.md.
- Install — download the installer and run it. No Docker, no terminal, no config files.
- Detect — the first-launch wizard scans for all 12 supported local backends and offers one-click installs if none are running. ComfyUI (for images/video) is detected or installed the same way.
- Run — pick a model in the Model Manager (hardware-aware recommendations, one-click downloads) and start chatting. Flip to the Coding Agent or the Create tab whenever you like.
Full walkthrough with screenshots: Getting Started Guide.
Build from source / contribute
git clone https://github.com/PurpleDoubleD/locally-uncensored.git
cd locally-uncensored
npm install
npm run dev # browser dev-mode (for contributing)
npm run tauri build # production desktop binarysetup.bat (Windows) / setup.sh (Linux/macOS) bootstrap Node, Git, and Ollama for dev-mode. See the Contributing Guide.
- Uncensored AI chat — abliterated models with the refusal behavior removed from the weights (not a jailbreak). Streaming, thinking display, unlimited history.
- 20+ provider presets — local: Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, KoboldCpp, llama.cpp, LocalAI, Jan, TabbyAPI, GPT4All, Aphrodite, SGLang, TGI. Cloud (optional, your keys): OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Groq, Together, DeepSeek, Mistral.
- Thinking Mode (provider-agnostic), file upload with vision, memory system, Document Chat (RAG) with local embeddings, voice (Whisper STT + neural TTS), 25+ personas, chat import from ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini exports.
- Image generation via a bundled, auto-managed ComfyUI: FLUX 2 Klein, FLUX.1, Juggernaut XL, Z-Image Turbo (uncensored), ERNIE-Image, SDXL, SD 3.5. Per-model correct defaults — no node graphs, no config. How it works.
- Video generation — Wan 2.1/2.2, HunyuanVideo 1.5, LTX 2.3, AnimateDiff, CogVideoX. Image-to-video with FramePack F1 on just 6 GB VRAM. Image-to-image with denoise control.
- LoRA picker, VAE override, CLIP-skip, and a local gallery for everything you make. No content filter, no watermark, no credits.
- Coding Agent — Architect mode, repo-map (Aider-style PageRank), review-before-apply diffs, test-runner loop, typed git/GitHub tools, multi-repo workspaces, per-project
.lurules. - Agent Mode — 28 tools + MCP: web search/fetch, file I/O, shell, code execution, screenshots, background tasks, parallel sub-agents. Granular permissions (7 categories, 3 levels).
- Claude Code CLI integration and universal tool calling — native for supported models, XML fallback for everything else.
- Remote access from your phone — full mobile web app over LAN or Cloudflare Tunnel: QR pairing, 6-digit passcode, opt-in, visible connection status. Details.
- A/B model compare, local benchmark, hardware-aware model recommendations, model load/unload, auto-update over a signed channel.
| Feature | Locally Uncensored | Open WebUI | LM Studio | Jan | SillyTavern |
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| AI Chat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image Generation | Yes | No | No | No | Via ext. |
| Video Generation | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Image-to-Image / Image-to-Video | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Coding Agent | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Agent Tools + MCP | 28 tools | No | No | No | No |
| Plug & Play Backend Setup | 12 backends | No | Built-in | Built-in | No |
| Remote Access (Phone) | Yes | Browser | No | No | Browser |
| A/B Compare + Benchmark | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Uncensored by Default | Yes | No | No | No | Partial |
| Voice (STT + TTS) | Yes | Partial | No | No | Partial |
| Document Chat (RAG) | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| No Docker Required | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Open Source | AGPL-3.0 | Open | No | AGPL | AGPL |
Deep dives: vs LM Studio · vs Jan · vs Open WebUI · vs GPT4All · vs Msty · vs KoboldCpp · vs SillyTavern · LM Studio alternatives · Best local AI apps 2026
75+ one-click downloads in the Model Manager, filtered by what your hardware can run. Highlights:
| Model | VRAM | Best For |
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| Qwen 3.6 35B MoE | 24 GB | Vision + agentic coding + thinking. 256K context. Day-0 support. |
| Qwen 3.5 35B MoE | 16 GB | Best agentic, SWE-bench leader. |
| GLM-4.7-Flash IQ2 | 12 GB | Strongest 30B class. Tool calling, 198K context. |
| Gemma 4 27B / E4B | 16 / 4 GB | Google flagship — native tools + vision; E4B runs on small GPUs. |
| GPT-OSS 120B / 20B | via Ollama | OpenAI's open-weight models. |
| Llama 3.1 8B Abliterated | 6 GB | The classic uncensored starting point. |
| Hermes 3 8B | 6 GB | Uncensored + reliable tool calling for Agent Mode. |
| DeepSeek R1 (8B–70B) | 6–48 GB | Visible chain-of-thought reasoning. |
| Model | VRAM | Notes |
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| FLUX.1 Schnell / Dev | 8–10 GB | Best text-to-image; fast or quality. |
| FLUX 2 Klein 4B | 8–10 GB | Next-gen, fastest FLUX. |
| Juggernaut XL V9 | 6 GB | Best photoreal SDXL — friendliest entry point. |
| Z-Image Turbo | 10–16 GB | Uncensored, 8–15 s per image. |
| ERNIE-Image Turbo | 24 GB | Baidu DiT, 8 steps. |
| Model | VRAM | Notes |
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| Wan 2.1 T2V 1.3B / 14B | 8–10 / 12+ GB | Fast entry point → high quality 720p. |
| FramePack F1 (I2V) | 6 GB | Image-to-video on remarkably low VRAM. |
| LTX 2.3 | 10 GB | Fast text-to-video on modest hardware. |
| HunyuanVideo 1.5 | 12+ GB | Excellent temporal consistency. |
| AnimateDiff Lightning | 6–8 GB | Ultra-fast 4-step animation. |
Is it really free and offline? Yes. AGPL-3.0, no account, no telemetry, no usage limits. After the initial model download the local stack works fully offline. Cloud providers are optional and bring-your-own-key.
What does "uncensored" mean? Abliterated models have the trained-in refusal behavior removed from the weights themselves — not a jailbreak, nothing to patch or break. The model answers directly. Combined with local execution, your conversations stay private. Full guide.
What hardware do I need? Text chat: 8 GB RAM. Fast 8B chat: a GPU with 6 GB VRAM. Image generation: NVIDIA GPU with 8+ GB VRAM. Video: 10–12 GB (image-to-video from 6 GB via FramePack F1). The app recommends models that fit your machine.
Can it replace ChatGPT or Claude? For most chat, writing, and coding: yes, with a good 8–14B local model — private, unlimited, and refusal-free. Frontier cloud models are still stronger on the hardest reasoning; add them via your own API keys if you want both.
Does remote access leak data? No. It's opt-in, passcode-gated, and shows connected devices. LAN traffic never leaves your network; away from home an encrypted Cloudflare tunnel connects phone and PC. No third-party AI server involved.
macOS?
Not yet — Windows and Linux today, macOS is on the roadmap. The source builds on macOS via npm run tauri build if you want to try.
Everything from plug-and-play backend setup through the coding agent, Agent Mode (28 tools + MCP), image/video generation, remote access, voice, RAG, A/B compare, and signed auto-update has shipped — see Releases for the full history.
Next up:
- Create-tab polish + new generation features (face-ID / PuLID, cleaner image & video workflow)
- Upscale + inpainting
- Voice Mode (live voice conversations)
- macOS build
Tauri v2 (Rust backend, lightweight standalone binary) · React 19 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS 4 · Vite 8 · ComfyUI for media, faster-whisper for STT · 20+ AI provider integrations.
Join the Discord: https://locallyuncensored.com/discord — help channels for chat, image gen, video gen, and the coding agent. Bugs and ideas: Issues · Discussions.
AGPL-3.0 — see LICENSE.
Your data stays on your machine.
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