DeepChat
- desktop-chat
Your AI Partner on Desktop
About
What is DeepChat?
DeepChat is a desktop chat client that supports multiple cloud and local large language model providers, including DeepSeek, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, and others. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and is designed for users who want a unified, feature-rich interface for interacting with various AI models.
How to use DeepChat?
Users install DeepChat on their chosen platform and configure their preferred model providers (cloud or local) through the intuitive interface. To connect MCP servers, users can leverage the built-in configuration interface and support for StreamableHTTP/SSE/Stdio protocols, with a built-in Node.js runtime for services like npx.
Key features of DeepChat
- Supports multiple cloud LLM providers (DeepSeek, OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, etc.)
- Local model deployment and management via Ollama without command-line operations
- Rich chatbot features: Markdown, multi-session, artifacts, retry, fork
- Robust search extension capabilities with built-in search APIs and engine simulation
- Excellent MCP support with user-friendly configuration and tool call debugging
- Multi-platform support: Windows, macOS, Linux
- Privacy protection: screen projection hiding, network proxies, encrypted data
Use cases of DeepChat
- Conducting multi-turn conversations with cloud or local LLMs in a single interface
- Using MCP tools to let models execute code, retrieve web info, or perform file operations
- Searching the web intelligently by integrating search engines and letting the model decide when to search
- Rendering artifacts, images, Mermaid diagrams, and LaTeX for diverse output presentations
FAQ from DeepChat
How does DeepChat compare to using a model provider's native interface?
DeepChat aggregates multiple providers and local models in one app, adds MCP tool integration, search, and artifact support, and provides a consistent user experience across platforms.
What platforms and models are supported?
DeepChat runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It supports cloud models from providers like DeepSeek, OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Grok, Silicon Flow, and many more, as well as local models via Ollama.
How does DeepChat support MCP?
DeepChat has an intuitive MCP configuration interface, supports StreamableHTTP/SSE/Stdio protocols, includes a built-in Node.js runtime for npx services, and provides a detailed tool call debugging window.
Is DeepChat free and open source?
DeepChat is licensed under Apache License 2.0, meaning it is free and open source for both personal and commercial use.
What are known limitations?
The README does not explicitly list limitations; however, it mentions that for Mac signing/packaging, users should refer to a separate guide. The app is actively developed.
Details
- Author
- ThinkInAIXYZ
- Category
- desktop-chat
- Repository
- thinkinaixyz/deepchat
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<h1 align="center">DeepChat</h1>
<p align="center">Dolphins are good friends of whales, and DeepChat is your good assistant</p>
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<a href="./README.zh.md">中文</a> / English / <a href="./README.jp.md">日本語</a>
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Reasoning
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Search
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Latex
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Artifacts support
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Main Features
- 🌐 Supports multiple cloud LLM providers: DeepSeek, OpenAI, Silicon Flow, Grok, Gemini, Anthropic, etc.
- 🏠 Supports local model deployment: Ollama, with comprehensive management capabilities, allowing control and management of Ollama model downloads, deployments, and runs without command-line operations.
- 🚀 Rich and easy-to-use chatbot capabilities
- Complete Markdown rendering with excellent code block display.
- Native support for simultaneous multi-session conversations; start new sessions without waiting for model generation to finish, maximizing efficiency.
- Supports Artifacts rendering for diverse result presentation, significantly saving token consumption after MCP integration.
- Messages support retry to generate multiple variations; conversations can be forked freely, ensuring there's always a suitable line of thought.
- Supports rendering images, Mermaid diagrams, and other multi-modal content; includes Gemini's text-to-image capabilities.
- Supports highlighting external information sources like search results within the content.
- 🔍 Robust search extension capabilities
- Built-in integration with leading search APIs like Brave Search via MCP mode, allowing the model to intelligently decide when to search.
- Supports mainstream search engines like Google, Bing, Baidu, and Sogou Official Accounts search by simulating user web browsing, enabling the LLM to read search engines like a human.
- Supports reading any search engine; simply configure a search assistant model to connect various search sources, whether internal networks, API-less engines, or vertical domain search engines, as information sources for the model.
- 🔧 Excellent MCP (Model Controller Platform) support
- Extremely user-friendly configuration interface.
- Aesthetically pleasing and clear tool call display.
- Detailed tool call debugging window with automatic formatting of tool parameters and return data.
- Built-in Node.js runtime environment; npx-like services require no extra configuration.
- Supports StreamableHTTP/SSE/Stdio protocols.
- Supports inMemory services with built-in utilities like code execution, web information retrieval, and file operations; ready for most common use cases out-of-the-box without secondary installation.
- Converts visual model capabilities into universally usable functions for any model via the built-in MCP service.
- 💻 Multi-platform support: Windows, macOS, Linux.
- 🎨 Beautiful and user-friendly interface, user-oriented design, meticulously themed light and dark modes.
- 🔗 Rich DeepLink support: Initiate conversations via links for seamless integration with other applications. Also supports one-click installation of MCP services for simplicity and speed.
- 🚑 Security-first design: Chat data and configuration data have reserved encryption interfaces and code obfuscation capabilities.
- 🛡️ Privacy protection: Supports screen projection hiding, network proxies, and other privacy protection methods to reduce the risk of information leakage.
- 💰 Business-friendly, embraces open source, based on the Apache License 2.0 protocol.
Currently Supported Model Providers
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/ollama.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://ollama.com">Ollama</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/deepseek-color.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://deepseek.com/">Deepseek</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/siliconcloud.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://www.siliconflow.cn/">Silicon</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/qwen-color.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://chat.qwenlm.ai">QwenLM</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/doubao-color.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://console.volcengine.com/ark/">Doubao</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/minimax-color.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://platform.minimaxi.com/">MiniMax</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/fireworks-color.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://fireworks.ai/">Fireworks</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/ppio-color.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://ppinfra.com/">PPIO</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/openai.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/gemini-color.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://gemini.google.com/">Gemini</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/github.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://github.com/marketplace/models">GitHub Models</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/moonshot.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://moonshot.ai/">Moonshot</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/openrouter.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://openrouter.ai/">OpenRouter</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/azure-color.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/openai-service">Azure OpenAI</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/qiniu.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://www.qiniu.com/products/ai-token-api">Qiniu</a>
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<img src="./src/renderer/src/assets/llm-icons/grok.svg" width="50" height="50"><br/>
<a href="https://x.ai/">Grok</a>
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Compatible with any model provider in OpenAI/Gemini/Anthropic API format
Other Features
- Support for local model management with Ollama
- Support for local file processing
- Artifacts support
- Customizable search engines (parsed through models, no API adaptation required)
- MCP support (built-in npx, no additional node environment installation needed)
- Support for multimodality models
- Local chat data backup and recovery
- Compatibility with any model provider in OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic API formats
Development
Please read the Contribution Guidelines
Windows and Linux are packaged by GitHub Action.
For Mac-related signing and packaging, please refer to the Mac Release Guide.
Install dependencies
``
bash
$ npm install
$ npm run installRuntime
if got err: No module named 'distutils'
$ pip install setuptools
for windows x64
$ npm install --cpu=x64 --os=win32 sharp
for mac apple silicon
$ npm install --cpu=arm64 --os=darwin sharp
for mac intel
$ npm install --cpu=x64 --os=darwin sharp
for linux x64
$ npm install --cpu=x64 --os=linux sharp
`
Start development
`bash
$ npm run dev
`
Build
`bash
For windows
$ npm run build:win
For macOS
$ npm run build:mac
For Linux
$ npm run build:linux
Specify architecture packaging
$ npm run build:win:x64
$ npm run build:win:arm64
$ npm run build:mac:x64
$ npm run build:mac:arm64
$ npm run build:linux:x64
$ npm run build:linux:arm64
``Star History
Contributors
Thank you for considering contributing to deepchat! The contribution guide can be found in the Contribution Guidelines.
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📃 License
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