Overview
NextChat is a lightweight AI chat frontend for web, desktop, and mobile platforms that emphasizes privacy and self-hosting. It supports connecting to OpenAI, LocalAI, RWKV and other models, and provides plugins, prompt templates, and multilingual UI—ideal for quickly deploying conversational applications for individuals and teams.
Key Features
- One-click deployment (Vercel/Docker) and a compact client with fast first-screen load.
- Broad model compatibility (OpenAI, LocalAI, RWKV, etc.) with streaming responses support.
- Plugin and prompt-template ecosystem, conversation compression, and long-context management.
Use Cases
- Personal and developer private chat assistants and knowledge-retrieval interfaces.
- Team or enterprise intranet deployments for integrating internal knowledge bases and permission control.
- Teaching demos, prototyping, and quick front-end delivery for productization.
Technical Highlights
- Modern frontend stack, compact footprint, responsive and PWA-capable.
- Multi-language support and configurable model adapter layer for easy extension with self-hosted LLMs.
- MIT licensed, active community, continuous iteration and multi-platform adaptation.