# Anse

Supercharged experience for multiple models such as ChatGPT, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion.

Repository: https://github.com/anse-app/anse
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/anse
Homepage: https://anse.app
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: chatgpt, dall-e, stable-diffusion, openai, gpt-3, gpt-35-turbo, gpt-4, google-gemini, azure-openai
Last push: 2025-05-12T02:21:03+00:00
Link (homepage): https://anse.app

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 30/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 21, release rhythm 8, longevity 87
- inputs: {"age_days": 1225, "days_push": 479, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1971, forks 409 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:00.902213+00:00)

## What it is
Anse is a minimal, self-hostable web UI for chatting with OpenAI's ChatGPT models (GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4) via the OpenAI API. Built with Astro and TypeScript, it can be deployed with one click to Vercel or Netlify and supports optional site password protection.

## Use cases
- self-host a ChatGPT web interface with my own API key
- deploy a lightweight chat UI to Vercel or Netlify
- chat with GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 in the browser
- add password protection to a shared ChatGPT frontend
- run a minimal alternative to the official ChatGPT site
- demo an OpenAI-powered chat app locally with Node

## When to choose
- you want a minimal, easy-to-deploy ChatGPT frontend on your own domain
- you need one-click Vercel/Netlify deployment with just an OpenAI API key
- you want a lightweight UI without heavy dependencies

## When to avoid
- you need multi-model, multi-chat, or image-generation features (use the successor Anse repo or a fuller client)
- you want a fully local/offline LLM without an OpenAI API key
- you need enterprise features like team management or usage billing

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: chatbot, chat-interface, web-framework, llm-inference
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, chatbots, web-development, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: chatgpt, openai-api, astro, vercel, gpt-3-5-turbo, web-ui, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- anse-app/anse (main) score 30
- anse-app/chatgpt-demo (mirror) score 30

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:00.902213+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:33:14.632134+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/anse-app/anse (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:00.902213+00:00, sha 05a5c13e6678)
  - homepage: https://anse.app (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:29.522873+00:00, sha 8b545259c164)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.