Chatbox AI

Chatbox AI is a multi-model AI chat client from Mediocre, LLC, available on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and the web. It lets users chat with models such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek, either with their own API keys or through hosted models. A Community Edition of the desktop app is open-sourced under the GPLv3 license on GitHub.

What It Is

Chatbox is a desktop, mobile and web client for large language models. Users configure a provider in settings, then chat with it, ask questions about files, search the web, generate images and render formatted output. The product site describes it as privacy-focused, and the FAQ says chat history is stored locally.

Working with files and knowledge

Chatbox can read files such as PDFs, Word documents, images and code snippets, summarize them and answer questions about them. The desktop app includes a local Knowledge Base where users upload documents, then select a knowledge base in Chat Mode or Work Mode and ask questions grounded in those documents. Each file must be under 50 MB, and supported formats include pdf, docx, txt, md, rtf, pptx, xlsx, csv, epub and common image types. Real-time web search is also available.

Work Mode and output formats

Work Mode is described as an agent that can build AI chatbots, work with files, search the web, write code, use tools and act autonomously. Chat can also use MCP tools. Output features include code generation with live preview, AI image generation, and rendering of Mermaid diagrams, LaTeX formulas and Markdown.

Open-source Community Edition

The GitHub repository is the Community Edition, licensed under GPLv3 and built with TypeScript, Electron and React. The README lists support for OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama local models and ChatGLM-6B, plus a prompt library, keyboard shortcuts, dark theme and multilingual UI. The latest listed release is v1.23.5.