Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)

Open-source, polished chat framework supporting many providers & local runners; extensible for RP and character presets.

Self-hosted multi-provider chat UI (OpenAI/Anthropic/Ollama etc.) with roles, files, and search—flexible RP client.

Privacy-first local chatbot app with downloadable models, long chats, and document memory—usable for custom RP.

Popular desktop app to run and chat with local LLMs; simple model management and fast GPU/CPU offload for RP sessions.

Modern self-hosted chat UI for local models (Ollama/OpenAI-compatible) with histories, file/RAG, tools—great RP shell.

All-in-one local web UI for LLMs with chat, memory, extensions and RP-friendly presets; runs GGUF/llama.cpp and more.

Power-user local frontend for roleplay chats with character cards, lorebooks, multi-model connectors, TTS/vision/image support.