Alternatives to Cicada

Privacy-first AI meeting assistant that transcribes, diarizes, and summarizes calls locally on your device with Ollama, no cloud upload.

Open-source macOS text assistant that translates, polishes, and transforms selected text with the model provider you choose.

BaoCut combines local transcription, bilingual subtitles, translated dubbing, and agent-assisted video editing on Apple Silicon Macs.

A private, open-source desktop search app that uses EmbeddingGemma 2 to find images, documents, audio, video, and code by meaning.

WeFlow is a local WeChat chat export and annual-report app with HTTP API mapping, not a cloud inbox.

Zeno is Icosa's local AI workspace for Apple Silicon Macs, with a bundled model for reading files, drafting documents, and working offline.

oMLX is an Apache-2.0 Apple Silicon inference server with SSD KV cache and a macOS menu bar app for coding agents.

fcitx5-vinput is a GPL-3.0 Fcitx5 voice input addon with local or cloud ASR and LLM rewriting on Linux.

GreenBubbles lets AI agents read and search your WeChat history on macOS, with local storage and source-linked Markdown notes.

Kensaku is a local, open-source desktop search launcher that indexes files, documents, screenshots, and code, with read-only MCP access for AI agents.

Self-hostable AI second brain: chat with your docs and the web, custom agents, and automations. AGPL-3.0 open source.

Private, local-first PDF tools with a Rust CLI, MCP server, browser app, desktop app, and local REST API.

Bilibili's open multilingual translation family: 150-language text, speech subtitles, controlled dubbing, and long-document translation built on Qwen3.5.

Tiny neural TTS from 294k to 2.3M parameters. Runs in the browser or on a $3 ESP32-S3. 11 voices, 6 languages, GPL-3.0.