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AnythingLLM: An app that lets you chat with AI using your own documents

Translated

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If you want to ask questions about multiple documents at once, this is an installable app that lets you upload your documents and chat with AI.

3-Line Summary

1) It’s an app where you can upload your documents and have conversations with AI. 2) After downloading and installing the app, you connect the AI model you want to use. 3) It’s useful for asking questions about multiple documents; one user used it to have GPT-4o read through a regulatory PDF.

Image source: GitHub repository card (Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm)

At a Glance

• 67,906 stars (as of November 4, 2026) • Languages used: JavaScript 98.9% (a language for building websites and apps), CSS 0.8% (a language for styling the user interface) • License: MIT (an open-source license that requires source code to be made public and allows free use) • Korean: A Korean translation file for the user interface is available; the documentation is in English, Chinese, and Japanese https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm

How to Use It

1) Go to the link below to download and install the installer for your computer (Mac, Windows, or Linux). https://anythingllm.com/download 2) In the app, select and connect to a local model or a cloud model like OpenAI. 3) Drag and drop a document (such as a PDF) into the app and ask a question, and it will display the source citations. Local models run on your computer’s CPU or GPU, while cloud models require an API key and are billed based on usage.

Popular Comments

GitHub Issue #1787 · 15 reactions · sebastianlang84 · June 2025 "Managers and admins can view all users' conversations without restriction. Teams need file upload permissions for regular users and private conversations that aren't visible to managers and admins unless explicitly shared." (Translation) https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/issues/1787#issuecomment-2948808929

Points to Note

If you choose the cloud model, the content of the documents you upload will be sent to an external AI service, so please be careful with personal information and copyrighted material. Issue #3087, requesting the ability to specify the save folder for the desktop app, is currently open, so it's difficult to change the save location.

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