# BruceMacD/chatd

Chat with your documents using local AI

Repository: https://github.com/BruceMacD/chatd
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chatd
Homepage: https://chatd.ai
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: chat, desktop, electron, llm, ollama, rag, llama2, mistral, mistral-7b
Last push: 2024-07-06T01:21:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 18/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 74
- inputs: {"age_days": 1048, "days_push": 789, "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 1082, forks 78 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:30.979127+00:00)

## What it is
Chatd is an Electron desktop application that lets you chat with your local documents using a local large language model (Mistral-7B) via Ollama. It bundles the LLM runner so everything runs on your machine with no data sent to the cloud.

## Use cases
- chat with pdf documents locally
- ask questions about my files with a private AI
- run a local LLM to summarize documents
- query documents offline without sending data to the cloud
- chat with documents using ollama
- private document Q&A on my desktop

## When to choose
- you want a fully private, offline document chat experience with no setup
- you want a bundled LLM runner so you don't have to install Ollama separately
- you prefer a simple desktop GUI over CLI tools

## When to avoid
- you need cloud-scale models or the highest answer quality from frontier LLMs
- you need to index very large document collections at scale
- you need a web-based or multi-user deployment

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: rag, llm-inference, chatbot, pdf
- domain: large-language-models, privacy, desktop-applications, artificial-intelligence
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: local-ai, ollama, document-chat, mistral-7b, offline-llm, private-ai, retrieval-augmented-generation, macos, desktop, electron

## Member repositories
- BruceMacD/chatd (main) score 18

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:30.979127+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 2026-08-30T06:51:13.036882+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/BruceMacD/chatd (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:30.979127+00:00, sha a1527034f235)
  - homepage: https://chatd.ai (fetched 2026-08-29T12:53:15.968997+00:00, sha 5512e170d9e3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.