ChatWise

Pick ChatWise if you jump between AI models during the day and would rather keep your chat history on your own computer than in someone else's cloud.

ChatWise is a desktop AI chatbot that connects to several large language models, including ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude, Gemini and Llama, so you can change models depending on the task without changing apps.

Conversations are not limited to typed text.

ChatWise accepts audio, PDFs, images and text files, which means a contract, a screenshot or a recording can sit in the same thread as your questions.

Web search is there for questions that need current information, and MCP support lets the app connect to tools such as Notion and Google Sheets.

The pitch is speed, privacy and a plain interface, not a long list of extras.

That is a fair trade if you mostly want an AI assistant for writing, editing and document work.

It is a native desktop application, so it suits people who prefer an app window to another browser tab.