A few months ago I got tired of bouncing between ChatGPT, Claude, and a dozen other AI chat UIs every time I wanted to test a different model. It felt like productivity, if productivity involved tab overload and constant context switching.
I also wanted to run everything locally without sending data off to someone else’s server just to ask a question about JSON formatting.
So I built Openbench AI.
What it is
OpenBench is a desktop chat app that connects to Ollama and lets you talk to local LLMs without the usual ritual of Docker, Python environments, or “why is this port not working again” debugging sessions.
