Chat frontend
Jan
Jan is a Apache-2.0-licensed local-AI chat frontend for Linux · macOS · Windows. It connects to local runtimes including Ollama, LM Studio.
- Category
- Chat frontend
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Operating systems
- Linux · macOS · Windows
- Install
- binary / source
- Interface
- GUI
- Model classes
- llm
- Latest version
- v0.8.3
- GitHub stars
- 43,548
As of 2026-07-13 · source · GitHub · homepage
Hardware
Minimum 8GB RAM for smaller models; up to 32GB for larger models
Works with these local runtimes
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