AI agent tools for chat
Short answer: Our top pick for chat: AionUi, with the highest AgentPick Score (81/100) among tools tagged "chat". Runners-up: MaiBot (78) and obot (71). Compare what each does, its license and how recently it was updated below.
| # | Tool | What it does | Score | Stars | License | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | AionUi | Open-source 24/7 Cowork app for OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and 20+ more CLI Agent | Customize your assistants | Team them up｜Star … | 81/100 | ★ 34k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #2 | MaiBot | MaiSaka, an LLM-based intelligent agent, is a digital lifeform devoted to understanding you and interacting in the style of a real human. She does not… | 78/100 | ★ 6.2k | GPL-3.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #3 | obot | Complete AI Governance Platform from Obot AI | 71/100 | ★ 1.1k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #4 | eca | Editor Code Assistant (ECA) - AI pair programming capabilities agnostic of editor | 71/100 | ★ 1k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #5 | conduit | Native iOS and Android client for Open WebUI, direct OpenAI-compatible, Ollama, and Hermes agents. | 70/100 | ★ 2.3k | GPL-3.0 | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #6 | smg | Engine-agnostic LLM gateway in Rust. Full OpenAI & Anthropic API compatibility across vLLM, TRT-LLM, TokenSpeed, SGLang, OpenAI, Gemini & more. Indust… | 70/100 | ★ 577 | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #7 | octo-web | Web & desktop (Electron) client for the OCTO open workplace — one React + TypeScript codebase shipping browser and PC surfaces, with first-class AI ag… | 68/100 | ★ 1.2k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #8 | octo-server | 🐙 The Go backend powering OCTO — an open workplace built for humans × AI agents. REST & WebSocket APIs, Lobster (AI agent) orchestration, and WuKongI… | 68/100 | ★ 1.1k | Apache-2.0 | 12 Oct 2026 |
| #9 | openvidu | OpenVidu Platform: self-hosted real-time video and audio for your apps, built on LiveKit and mediasoup | 66/100 | ★ 2.1k | Apache-2.0 | 11 Oct 2026 |
| #10 | Risuai | Make your own story. User-friendly software for LLM roleplaying | 66/100 | ★ 1.7k | GPL-3.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #11 | papersgpt-for-zotero | A powerful Zotero AI and MCP plugin with ChatGPT, Gemini 3.7, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, DeepSeek V4, Grok, OpenRouter, Kimi k3, GLM 5.3, SiliconF… | 65/100 | ★ 2.7k | AGPL-3.0 | 29 Sept 2026 |
| #12 | ethora | SDK monorepo for the Ethora chat / messaging platform. (1) Pick an SDK for your frontend stack. (2) Integrate manually or with ethora-setup. (3) Optio… | 64/100 | ★ 550 | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #13 | solon-ai | Java AI application development framework (supports LLM-tool,skill; RAG; MCP; Agent-ReAct,Team-Agent). Compatible with java8 ~ java26. It can also be … | 61/100 | ★ 463 | Apache-2.0 | 1 Oct 2026 |
| #14 | thinking-orbs | Dotted thought-orb loading indicators for AI & agent UIs, 9 tuned types, two sizes, auto dark/light | 57/100 | ★ 3.7k | MIT | 16 Aug 2026 |
| #15 | Deft | Self-hostable AGPL workspace where humans and AI agents share chat, tasks, knowledge, approvals, and MCP context. | 54/100 | ★ 263 | AGPL-3.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #16 | ChatTTS | A generative speech model for daily dialogue. | 46/100 | ★ 40k | AGPL-3.0 | 10 Apr 2026 |
| #17 | AI-Fullstack-SaaS-Boilerplate | Fullstack SaaS Boilerplate built with tRPC, Fastify and React | 44/100 | ★ 1.4k | MIT | 9 Oct 2026 |
| #18 | chatmcp | ChatMCP is an AI chat client implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP). | 40/100 | ★ 2.2k | Apache-2.0 | 7 Sept 2026 |
| #19 | tribe | Low code tool to rapidly build and coordinate multi-agent teams | 23/100 | ★ 1.1k | MIT | 27 Oct 2025 |
Source: each project's public GitHub repository (description, stars, license, last push). Listed tools aren't tested or ranked by AgentPick.
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