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	Upscayl Enlarge and sharpen images with AI, offline and free. Visit	Jan Run open-source AI chatbots offline on your own computer. Visit
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Pricing	Freemium	Free
Category	Photo Editing	Chatbots
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Pros	Completely free and open source, with no watermarks, sign-ups, or upload limits Runs locally on your GPU, so images never leave your computer Batch mode upscales entire folders in one pass Supports extra community-made models beyond the built-in ones, plus GPU selection Native apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux with a simple before/after workflow	Runs LLMs fully offline on your own hardware, so conversations stay private by default Simple point-and-click model downloads from Hugging Face, no command line required Genuinely open source under the permissive Apache-2.0 license Exposes an OpenAI-compatible local API server (localhost:1337) for wiring into other apps Optionally connects to cloud providers and supports MCP for agent-style tool use
Cons	Requires a Vulkan-compatible GPU; many integrated graphics chips and CPUs will not work Cannot deblur or fix out-of-focus images, only enhance low-resolution or pixelated ones AGPL-3.0 license can complicate embedding it in closed commercial products Large images and big batches can be slow or memory-hungry on modest GPUs	Local model quality depends heavily on your RAM and GPU; small models are far weaker than ChatGPT or Claude Decent performance effectively needs 16GB+ RAM and ideally a supported GPU Still maturing, with a fairly high open issue count and occasional rough edges Building from source on Windows is involved and requires a full compiler toolchain

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