The 34 AI Features in Our Open-Source Showcase - All Running in Your Browser Right Now

Open localmode.ai in Chrome or Edge, and you will find 34 fully functional AI applications. Every one of them runs entirely in your browser tab. No backend server. No API key. No data leaves your device. Close the tab and the computation stops - there is nothing to shut down, no bill to reconcile, no logs on a server you do not control.

This is not a collection of toy demos. These are complete applications - with file upload, drag-and-drop, batch processing, export to CSV/JSON/SRT, real-time streaming, and persistent IndexedDB storage - built on the same @localmode packages you would use in production. The showcase exists so you can see exactly what local-first AI looks like before you write a single line of code.

This post is a guided tour through all 34 apps, organized by category. Each entry includes what the app does, which model powers it, how large the download is, and a direct link to try it.

1. LLM Chat and Agents

1.1 LLM Chat

The flagship demo. A full-featured chat interface with streaming responses, semantic caching, conversation persistence, and vision support (attach images and ask questions about them). What makes it unusual is the model selector: it surfaces models from four different inference backends - WebLLM (MLC WebGPU), Transformers.js v4 (ONNX WebGPU), wllama (GGUF WASM), and LiteRT - all behind the same LanguageModel interface. Pick a tiny 78 MB model for quick answers or a 5.41 GB 8B-parameter model for deeper reasoning. Agent mode is available on models above 500 MB, enabling tool-calling with a built-in knowledge base, calculator, and summarizer.

Models: 76 models across four backends (Llama 3.2, Qwen 3, Phi 3.5, Mistral, DeepSeek R1, Gemma 4, and more) | Size: 78 MB -- 5.41 GB | Try LLM Chat

1.2 GGUF Explorer

Browse, inspect, and chat with any GGUF model from HuggingFace - over 180,000 of them. Paste a HuggingFace URL or shorthand like bartowski/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M.gguf, and the app parses the GGUF metadata header (architecture, quantization type, context length, vocabulary size), runs a browser compatibility check (RAM estimate, WebAssembly support, cross-origin isolation status), and lets you chat with the model via wllama's WASM inference engine. Think of it as a browser-native model playground for the entire GGUF ecosystem.

Models: Any GGUF model on HuggingFace + 30 curated defaults (25 language + 3 embedding + 2 reranker) | Size: 35 MB -- 5.41 GB | Try GGUF Explorer

1.3 Research Agent

An autonomous AI agent that uses a ReAct (Reason + Act) loop to research topics step by step. Ask a question like "Compare photosynthesis and solar panels for energy conversion," and watch the agent think, search a knowledge base, take notes, perform calculations, and synthesize a final answer - all rendered in real time as expandable step cards. The agent framework is built on @localmode/core's createAgent() and runAgent() primitives with typed tool definitions.

Model: Qwen 3 1.7B (WebLLM) | Size: 1.1 GB | Try Research Agent

1.4 Data Extractor

Extract structured JSON from unstructured text. Choose from five built-in templates (contact info, event details, product review, recipe, job posting) or define a custom Zod schema, paste any text, and the app generates schema-validated JSON using generateObject() with automatic retry and self-correction. Supports 15 models from Qwen 3 1.7B up to Llama 3.1 8B.

Models: Qwen 3 1.7B through Llama 3.1 8B (WebLLM) | Size: 1.1 GB -- 4.9 GB | Try Data Extractor

2. RAG and Search

2.1 PDF Search

Upload one or more PDF documents, and the app extracts text with @localmode/pdfjs, chunks it, embeds each chunk with BGE Small, indexes everything in a local VectorDB, and lets you ask natural-language questions. Results come back with source citations linking to specific passages. A reranker model re-scores the top candidates for higher precision, and an optional LLM generates a synthesized answer.

Models: BGE Small (33 MB) + MS MARCO Reranker (22 MB) + optional Llama 3.2 1B | Try PDF Search

2.2 Personal Knowledge Base (Semantic Search)

A note-taking app with semantic and hybrid search. Add notes with tags, and the app embeds them in real time. Search by meaning - type "budget concerns" and find a note titled "Q3 financial projections." Supports keyword search, semantic search, and hybrid mode. Notes persist in IndexedDB across sessions, with import/export to JSON.

Model: BGE Small | Size: 33 MB | Try Semantic Search

2.3 LangChain RAG

A complete LangChain.js RAG pipeline running locally. Uses LocalModeEmbeddings, LocalModeVectorStore, and ChatLocalMode adapters from @localmode/langchain - so if you already use LangChain, you can swap in local models with zero architecture changes. Paste or upload a document, ask questions, and get LLM-generated answers with source citations, all powered by a local Qwen 3 1.7B model.

Models: BGE Small (33 MB) + Qwen 3 1.7B (1.1 GB) | Try LangChain RAG

2.4 Data Migrator

Import vector data from Pinecone, ChromaDB, CSV, or JSONL. The app auto-detects the format, shows a preview of the parsed records, and imports them into a local VectorDB. For text-only records without vectors, it re-embeds them locally with BGE Small. Export back to CSV or JSONL for interoperability. Useful for testing RAG pipelines with real data without needing a cloud vector database running.

Model: BGE Small | Size: 33 MB | Try Data Migrator

3. Text and NLP

3.1 Customer Feedback Analyzer (Sentiment)

Classify reviews, support tickets, or social mentions as positive or negative. Paste a single text or batch-process hundreds at once. The app shows a statistics dashboard with distribution charts and lets you export results to CSV. One of the smallest model downloads in the showcase at 67 MB.

Model: DistilBERT SST-2 | Size: 67 MB | Try Sentiment Analyzer

3.2 Email Intent Classifier

Zero-shot classification with custom labels. Define your own categories - "billing inquiry," "technical support," "feature request," "spam" - and the model classifies emails into them without any fine-tuning. Add or remove labels on the fly. Batch-process an inbox export and route emails to folders automatically.

Model: MobileBERT MNLI | Size: 25 MB | Try Email Classifier

3.3 Document Summarizer

Summarize long documents into key points. Control output length with min/max parameters. Handles articles, meeting notes, and support threads. The DistilBART model provides abstractive summarization - it generates new sentences rather than extracting existing ones.

Model: DistilBART CNN | Size: 300 MB | Try Text Summarizer

3.4 Document Q&A Bot

Extractive question answering: paste a context paragraph, ask a question, and the model returns the exact span of text that answers it, along with a confidence score and the character offset. Useful for building FAQ bots, documentation search, or study tools.

Model: DistilBERT SQuAD | Size: 100 MB | Try Q&A Bot

3.5 Offline Translator

Translate text between six language pairs (EN↔DE, EN↔FR, EN↔ES). Each language pair uses a dedicated Helsinki-NLP Opus MT model. Works completely offline after the initial model download. Supports batch translation and maintains a history of translations across sessions.

Models: Opus MT (EN-DE, EN-FR, EN-ES, and more) | Size: 100 -- 300 MB per language pair | Try Translator

3.6 Smart Autocomplete

Intelligent text completion powered by fill-mask models. Type a sentence with a gap, and the model suggests contextually appropriate words to fill it. Uses ModernBERT Base for high-quality, context-aware predictions with multiple ranked suggestions in real time.

Model: ModernBERT Base | Size: 150 MB | Try Smart Autocomplete

3.7 Smart Writer

An AI writing assistant that combines summarization (TL;DR, key points, teaser, headline) and translation (seven languages) in one interface. It tries Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano first for zero-download, instant results, and automatically falls back to Transformers.js models if Chrome AI is not available. A practical demonstration of the try/catch provider fallback pattern.

Models: Chrome AI (0 MB) with DistilBART CNN fallback (300 MB) | Try Smart Writer

3.8 Invoice Q&A Assistant

Visual document understanding for invoices, receipts, and forms. Upload an image of a document, ask "What is the total amount?" or "Who is the vendor?", and the Donut model answers based on the visual content. Supports table extraction and batch processing of multiple document images.

Model: Donut Base (DocVQA) | Size: ~800 MB | Try Invoice Q&A

4. Computer Vision

4.1 Image Background Remover

Upload a photo, and the RMBG-1.4 segmentation model removes the background automatically. Preview the before/after result, then download as a PNG with transparency. Supports batch processing - drag in a folder of product photos and process them all.

Model: RMBG-1.4 | Size: 170 MB | Try Background Remover

4.2 Smart Photo Gallery

Upload photos and the app auto-categorizes them using SigLIP embeddings. Search your gallery by text description ("sunset over water," "group photo at a restaurant"), find visually similar images, and detect near-duplicates. All indexing and search happens in a local VectorDB.

Model: SigLIP Base | Size: 400 MB | Try Smart Gallery

4.3 E-commerce Visual Search

Search a product catalog by image. Upload a photo of a product, and the app finds visually similar items using SigLIP multimodal embeddings. Auto-categorize your catalog, detect duplicate listings, and build a visual search experience - all without sending product images to any external service.

Model: SigLIP Base | Size: 400 MB | Try Product Search

4.4 Accessibility Alt-Text Generator

Generate descriptive alt-text for images automatically. Upload an image and the ViT-GPT2 model produces a natural-language caption suitable for screen readers. Also supports visual QA - ask questions about image content. Batch-process a folder of images and export captions as an HTML snippet.

Model: ViT-GPT2 Image Captioning | Size: ~230 MB | Try Image Captioner

4.5 OCR Document Scanner

Extract text from images and scanned documents. Uses the TrOCR model, which handles both printed and handwritten text. Upload a photo of a receipt, whiteboard, or handwritten note, and get the text content back. Useful for digitizing paper documents without cloud OCR services.

Model: TrOCR Small Printed | Size: 10 -- 50 MB | Try OCR Scanner

4.6 Real-Time Object Detector

Detect and locate objects in images with bounding boxes and confidence scores. Uses DETR ResNet-50, a transformer-based detection architecture. Upload an image or connect your webcam for real-time detection. The model identifies 80 COCO object categories including people, vehicles, animals, and household items.

Model: DETR ResNet-50 | Size: ~42 MB | Try Object Detector

4.7 Photo Enhancer

Upscale and enhance images using super-resolution models. Upload a low-resolution photo, and the Swin2SR model produces a 2x or 4x upscaled version with sharpened detail. Useful for restoring old photos, improving thumbnails, or preparing images for print.

Model: Swin2SR Lightweight x2 | Size: 50 MB | Try Photo Enhancer

4.8 Duplicate Photo Finder

Find visually similar and duplicate images in your photo library. Upload a batch of photos, and the DINOv3 model extracts visual features to identify near-duplicates and similar-looking images. Group them by similarity and clean up your library without manually comparing hundreds of photos.

Model: DINOv3 Small | Size: 86 MB | Try Duplicate Finder

4.9 Cross-Modal Photo Search

Search photos by text description or by reference image. The CLIP model embeds text and images in the same 512-dimensional vector space, so you can type "a dog playing in snow" and find matching photos, or upload a photo and find visually similar ones. Drag and drop images to build your searchable collection.

Model: CLIP ViT Base Patch32 | Size: ~350 MB | Try Cross-Modal Search

5. Audio

5.1 Voice Notes and Transcription

Record audio directly in the browser or upload audio files, and the Moonshine Tiny model transcribes speech to text with timestamps. Search your voice notes semantically using embedded transcripts. One of the most practical demos - record a thought on your phone, and it is instantly searchable by meaning.

Models: Moonshine Tiny (50 MB) + BGE Small (33 MB) | Try Voice Notes

5.2 Meeting Transcription Assistant

A more full-featured audio app: transcribe meetings with Moonshine Base (higher accuracy than Tiny), then generate summaries and extract action items using DistilBART. Export transcripts in SRT or VTT subtitle formats. Designed for the workflow of recording a meeting, getting the transcript, and sharing the summary - all without the audio ever leaving the device.

Models: Moonshine Base (~237 MB) + DistilBART CNN (~200 MB) | Try Meeting Assistant

5.3 Audiobook Creator

Convert text to natural-sounding speech. Paste or type text, and the Kokoro model generates audio you can play back or download. Designed for creating audiobooks, podcasts, or accessibility audio from written content. The model is compact at around 86 MB.

Model: Kokoro-82M | Size: ~86 MB | Try Audiobook Creator

6. Privacy and Security

6.1 Privacy Document Redactor

Detect and redact personally identifiable information from documents. The BERT NER model identifies names, locations, organizations, and other entities. Preview detected entities highlighted in the text, choose which categories to redact, and export the sanitized document. Because the model runs locally, the sensitive document never touches a server - which is exactly the point when you are redacting PII.

Model: BERT Base NER | Size: 110 MB | Try Document Redactor

6.2 Encrypted Vault

End-to-end encrypted notes using the Web Crypto API. Set a master password, and every note is encrypted with PBKDF2 key derivation and AES-GCM before being stored in localStorage. The encryption key exists only in memory while the vault is unlocked and is cleared when you lock it or close the tab. Semantic search over encrypted notes is supported via @localmode/core's embedding model - embeddings are generated client-side before storage. No plaintext ever persists.

Model: BGE Small (for semantic search) | Size: 33 MB | Try Encrypted Vault

7. Developer Tools

7.1 Model Advisor

A zero-download diagnostic tool. It detects your device capabilities - WebGPU support, available memory, cross-origin isolation, hardware concurrency - and provides ranked model recommendations for any of 21 task categories (embedding, classification, generation, vision, audio, and more). It also computes optimal batch sizes using computeOptimalBatchSize() from @localmode/core. Useful for building adaptive applications that select the right model based on the user's hardware. No model is downloaded; this app uses only the model registry and capabilities APIs.

Models: None (0 MB) | Try Model Advisor

7.2 Model Evaluator

Evaluate classification models with real metrics: accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and a confusion matrix visualization. Load a sample dataset (sentiment analysis or news topic classification) or create your own, run the model against it, and see where it succeeds and fails. A second tab provides threshold calibration - embed a corpus, compute the similarity distribution, and find the optimal cosine similarity threshold for your use case at a given percentile. Export results to JSON.

Model: DistilBERT SST-2 (or MobileBERT MNLI) | Size: 25 -- 67 MB | Try Model Evaluator

8. Media and Real-Time

8.1 MediaPipe Studio

An interactive playground for all of MediaPipe's real-time vision, audio, and text tasks. Switch between tabs for hand landmarks (21 points), pose estimation (33 points), face mesh (478 points), gesture recognition (8 gestures), audio classification (YAMNet, 521 categories), language detection (110 languages), and text embeddings - all via @localmode/mediapipe's streaming tracker APIs running at up to 60 fps through the webcam.

Models: MediaPipe task bundles (2--10 MB each) | Try MediaPipe Studio

8.2 Voice Studio

A text-to-speech exploration tool powered by Kokoro-82M. Browse all 29 English voices (American & British English), synthesize custom text with any voice, and compare voices side by side. Demonstrates @localmode/transformers's Kokoro TTS implementation with phonemizer-backed pronunciation and speed control.

Model: Kokoro-82M | Size: ~86 MB | Try Voice Studio

What Ties It All Together

Every one of these 34 apps is built on the same stack:

• @localmode/core provides the zero-dependency runtime: embed(), classify(), generateText(), generateObject(), createVectorDB(), createAgent(), runAgent(), encrypt(), evaluateModel(), recommendModels(), and dozens more functions. No external dependencies.
• @localmode/transformers wraps HuggingFace Transformers.js for 27 model types (embeddings, classification, NER, translation, summarization, vision, audio, OCR, and more).
• @localmode/webllm provides WebGPU-accelerated LLM inference with 32 curated chat models from Llama, Qwen, Phi, Mistral, and DeepSeek.
• @localmode/wllama runs any GGUF model via llama.cpp compiled to WebAssembly - 180,000+ models, universal browser support, no WebGPU required.
• @localmode/react provides 56 React hooks that manage loading states, cancellation, error handling, and streaming for every operation.
• @localmode/langchain adapts local models to LangChain.js interfaces for drop-in RAG pipelines.
• @localmode/pdfjs, @localmode/chrome-ai, @localmode/devtools, @localmode/litert, @localmode/mediapipe, @localmode/ai-sdk, @localmode/dexie, @localmode/idb, and @localmode/localforage round out the ecosystem with PDF extraction, Chrome Built-in AI, observability, on-device LiteRT inference, MediaPipe vision/audio tasks, Vercel AI SDK integration, and storage adapters.

The showcase app itself is a Next.js 16 application with React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, and daisyUI 5. Each of the 34 demo apps is fully self-contained in its own directory - no shared state, no shared components between apps. You can read the source of any app as a standalone reference implementation.

The Models Behind the Showcase

Here is a quick reference of every model used across the 34 apps, sorted by download size:

Every model is downloaded once from HuggingFace and cached in IndexedDB or the Cache API. Subsequent visits load from disk in seconds.

Running It Yourself

The entire showcase is open source. Clone the repo, install dependencies, and start the dev server:

git clone https://github.com/LocalMode-AI/LocalMode.git
cd localmode
pnpm install
pnpm dev --filter showcase-nextjs

Open http://localhost:3000 and all 34 apps are available locally. You can also read the source of any app at apps/showcase-nextjs/src/app/(apps)/{app-name}/ - each one is a self-contained reference implementation with its own components, hooks, services, types, and constants.

Methodology

All app names, counts, model IDs, and model sizes were verified against the apps/showcase-nextjs/src/app/(apps)/ directory and each app's _lib/constants.ts. Package counts were verified against the packages/ directory. React hook counts were verified against packages/react/src/index.ts. WebLLM and wllama model counts were verified against packages/webllm/src/models.ts and packages/wllama/src/models.ts respectively. The GGUF model count was verified against huggingface.co/models?library=gguf (180,000+ as of May 2026). Moonshine Base size was cross-referenced against the app's own constants (~237 MB).

Sources

• LocalMode showcase source - app directories -- ground truth for app names and count (34 apps)
• LocalMode documentation -- full API reference for all packages
• HuggingFace GGUF models filter -- live count of GGUF models (180,000+ as of May 2026)
• Xenova/detr-resnet-50 model card -- object detection model used in Object Detector app
• onnx-community/moonshine-base-ONNX file tree -- ONNX file sizes for Moonshine Base
• Xenova/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa model card -- model used in Invoice Q&A app
• Transformers.js documentation -- browser ML inference library
• WebLLM project -- WebGPU LLM inference engine
• Chrome Built-in AI -- Gemini Nano APIs in Chrome