RisuAI Cross-platform RP client/app with multi-API support, TTS, assets-in-chat, regex filters, and character expressions. 0400 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# characters# local
DeepSeek-R1 (and distilled checkpoints) Open (MIT-licensed) reasoning model with distilled 1.5B–70B local checkpoints; known for chain-of-thought quality. 0400 Open-source Models# DeepSeek-R1# distilled# local
Ollama + Llama Guard 3 (local) Run Llama Guard 3 locally via Ollama to classify prompts/responses for safety. 0380 Guardrails & Moderation# classification# Llama Guard# local
RWKV Runner Local RWKV manager with a built-in chat UI and OpenAI-compatible API—lean setup for private RP conversations. 0330 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# chat-ui# local
OLMo 2 (AI2) Fully open training data, code, and checkpoints; transparent 7B/13B/32B family for reproducible research and apps. 0440 Open-source Models# AI2# fully open# local
SillyTavern Power-user local frontend for roleplay chats with character cards, lorebooks, multi-model connectors, TTS/vision/image support. 0430 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# characters# local
H2O GPT Private, self-hostable chat UI/server (Apache-2.0) supporting local models & Ollama—usable for RP and long-form chats. 0460 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# local# NSFW
Phi-4 Reasoning Microsoft’s 14B open-weight reasoning model yielding strong complex-task performance with modest hardware. 0470 Open-source Models# 14B# local# open weights
Text Generation WebUI (oobabooga) All-in-one local web UI for LLMs with chat, memory, extensions and RP-friendly presets; runs GGUF/llama.cpp and more. 0570 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# extensions# GGUF
Jan (Desktop) Open-source local LLM desktop app—download models, chat offline, and customize prompts for RP-style dialogs. 0350 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# desktop# local
LLaVA-OneVision 1.5 Fully open multimodal (images/video+text) models & training stack; strong results and reproducible recipes. 0470 Open-source Models# LLaVA# local# multimodal
Open WebUI Modern self-hosted chat UI for local models (Ollama/OpenAI-compatible) with histories, file/RAG, tools—great RP shell. 0400 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# local# NSFW
Backyard AI (Desktop, Deprecated) Character-focused local desktop app (now deprecated) known for no-filter RP; still useful as a reference/shell. 0360 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# characters# desktop
MiniCPM-V 2.6 Edge-friendly multimodal 8B model (images/video) with quantized variants for low-VRAM local inference. 0530 Open-source Models# edge# int4# local
LM Studio (Desktop) Popular desktop app to run and chat with local LLMs; simple model management and fast GPU/CPU offload for RP sessions. 0400 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# desktop# GPU