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Open WebUI

Feature-rich offline AI platform with support for Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, text-to-image, cloud sync, privacy focus, ad-free experience, distraction-free and dark modes, no registration, easy deployment, and customizable UI.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
  • Cloudron
  • Docker
Connect multiple OpenAI compatible APIs or Ollama instances
Manage models on your Ollama instances — with update functionality!
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Download models directly from the Chat for Ollama
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Features

Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Distraction-free
  3.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  AI Chatbot
  3.  No Coding Required
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Works Offline
  6.  No registration required
  7.  Support for MarkDown
  8.  Text to Speech
  9.  Dark Mode
  10.  Text to Image Generation
  11.  Cloud Sync
  12.  VoiP Calls
  13.  Python-based
  14.  Speech to text
  15.  Docker Container
  16.  Mermaid support
  17.  Drag and Drop
  18.  LDAP support
  19.  Single Sign-On

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  • Rating

    Average rating of 4

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Bengali
    • Bulgarian
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • German
    • Basque
    • Danish
    • Spanish
    • Persian
    • Finnish
    • French
    • Greek
    • Hebrew
    • Hindi
    • Croatian
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Irish
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Georgian
    • Korean
    • Lithuanian
    • Malay
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Dutch
    • Panjabi, Punjabi
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Swedish
    • Serbian
    • Thai
    • Turkmen
    • Ukrainian
    • Urdu
    • Vietnamese
    • Chinese

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  •  22,317 Forks
  •  310 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Open WebUI, and it has gotten 61 likes

Open WebUI was added to AlternativeTo by AbstractGeo on and this page was last updated .

Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
AbstractGeo
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I love this tool - updates could be a bit simpler, and the documentation lags a bit behind features, but it's more than usable!

Top Negative Comment
Oktay Mercan
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It's just a FRONTEND app that requires a BACKEND like Ollama. Getting it to work is a pain. The installation process is pretty difficult I mean, you can't just download an .exe installer, click 'next, next' and voilà, the app is installed. Sadly, no. First of all, you need a specific Python version (3.11.x). If you want to use latest Python version for 3.11, you have to compile it yourself, otherwise you're forced to use an older version like 3.11.9.

After all that installation hassle, it forces you to create an account. Why??? Anyway, once you complete the setup and log in, you get to the start page, but then you have to fetch the AI models yourself. And guess what? There is no Hub or easy way to get models like in other apps (LM Studio, AnythingLLM, Jan, etc.). There isn't even a GUI to manage downloads or a way to just paste a Hugging Face link into an 'ollama pull' command. Long story short, I'm too tired to even bother with this... its good frontend GUI app but saddly its not user-friendly and lots of fragmentation and management required...

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What is Open WebUI?

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform designed to operate entirely offline. It supports various LLM runners like Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with built-in inference engine for RAG, making it a powerful AI deployment solution.