LM Studio
How vibe coders and indie builders use LM Studio: 55 projects built with it and 6 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
55
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.3%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
6
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- Ollama 48
- OpenAI API 28
- Claude API 23
- Gemini API 22
- OpenRouter 19
- llama.cpp 12
- Groq 8
- vLLM 8
What's built with it
Latest projects built with LM Studio
- PrivoidCut — Automatically edits raw talking-head video into vertical shorts by cutting pauses, tracking the face, and adding word-synced captions and motion graphics.“I built PrivoidCut: an offline, open-source editor for talking-head shorts”
- OpenTerminalUI — Provides a self-hosted stock research terminal with charts, fundamentals, screening, backtesting, and an AI agent that summarizes a stock from live data and filings.“Spent way too many weekends building my own "Bloomberg terminal" for Indian + US stocks. Here's the AI agent doing a quick read on CCL”
- OpenNotch — Turns the MacBook notch into an AI assistant that can run tools on the Mac, asking for approval before risky actions.“I spent my evenings making the MacBook notch useful: an open-source AI assistant + a jelly blob named Puff" + video.”
- SayWrite — Turns speech into text typed at the cursor on a Mac, with optional local AI cleanup of the dictated text.“I built a Mac dictation app with local speech recognition and local AI cleanup”
- PaperCat — Runs local OCR on scanned paper mail and uses an AI model to extract deadlines, amounts, document type and suggested next actions, with optional reply drafts.“I built a Windows app because I wanted my scanned paper mail to actually understand deadlines, amounts and what I need to do next.”
- Four Notes — Combines notes, to-dos and spending tracking in one Mac app, with an assistant that files typed or spoken input into the right place.“Four Notes - Your Everyday App”
- Quizmark — Injects short AI-generated quizzes into YouTube videos at intervals the user chooses.“My ADHD inspired Quizmark, a free chrome extension that embeds short quizzes in YouTube videos”
- Daisy Local — Records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings locally on desktop and iPhone, with speaker identification and searchable history.“We built a private meeting assistant that runs locally on desktop and iPhone”
- RayMate — Provides a Mac launcher panel for AI chat, on-device or cloud dictation, and inline text rewriting with diff review.“RayMate - a Spotlight-like AI Copilot that is totally free. It allows to dictate, chat, and inline re-write. Local and online.”
- Orihai — Runs long-form interactive fiction over weeks, keeping characters, locations and facts consistent by compiling each turn into a budgeted context.“I made an interactive app for long-form fiction you play over weeks”
- Crucible — Runs a terminal AI agent harness that lets local LLMs call a built-in constraint solver and rewind file and conversation state via git checkpoints.“I built Crucible – A terminal AI agent harness powered by a custom functional logic programming language with a built-in constraint solver”
- AIDA — Runs a self-hosted personal AI assistant that handles daily tasks like briefings, inbox triage, and document creation through chat apps.“Built a self-hosted personal AI agent – looking for feedback on positioning”
- Have AI API keys / self-hosted… — Lets users chat with multiple cloud and self-hosted LLMs on iOS using their own API keys, with MCP connectors, RAG memory, and parameter controls.“Have AI API keys / self-hosted models but no iOS client? I have an app for you!”
- Otaku — Runs LLM-powered roleplay chats with automatic summarization, character extraction, and transparent context building, through a web UI or terminal UI.“Otaku — an LLM frontend for roleplay”
- Correctly — Checks grammar and writing in the browser using local models, on-device AI, or the user's own API key.“Correctly: A Grammar checking run by your AI.”
Latest add-ons built for LM Studio
- Local LLM Cleaner — Scans disks for AI model files across local AI apps, finds identical copies, and merges them via symlinks.“I built a free Windows tool that finds the AI models eating your disk and merges the duplicates”
- TokenFlow — Proxies coding agent traffic to LLM providers and shows per-prompt token usage and full request and response logs in a local dashboard.“See what Claude Code, Codex, and Local AI coding agents are actually sending under the hood. (Request/Response Capture - Open Source)”
- local-llmup — Installs and switches local LLM models across runtimes such as Ollama, llama.cpp, MLX, and LM Studio.“Local-llmup : package to manage localllm , install or switch in any runtime : ollama , llama.cpp , mlx , lm studio”
- Compresh — Compresses growing LLM conversation histories into structured episodic memory before each API call, keeping recent turns raw and letting the model retrieve elided content on demand.“I built Compresh — an open-source proxy that compresses LLM conversations as they grow, so you stop re-paying for the same context every turn”
- LM Manager Pro — Provides a mobile interface for chatting with local and cloud AI models, running multi-model group chats, and generating images.“LM Manager Pro - Your Local and Cloud AI Companion”
- claudely — Launches Claude Code against local LLM servers like LM Studio, Ollama, and llama.cpp without modifying the user's real Claude config.“claudely: launch Claude Code against Local LLM provider like LM Studio / Ollama / llama.cpp without trashing your real claude config”
Pitched as alternatives to LM Studio
- CaptainLocalAI — Runs local LLMs offline on a Mac to organize files by content, transcribe voice into meeting minutes, and recommend models based on RAM.“CaptainLocalAI v1.0.2 is here 🚀 – A 100% offline, privacy-first AI utility for Mac (Now with improved Smart File sorting!)”
- axolotl-companion — Provides a local-first AI chat interface that runs models on the user's own GPU.“I built my own local AI chat instead of using OpenWebUI — and I’m not sure if it was worth it”