Dyad
Local open-source AI app builder that turns chat into full-stack apps using your own model keys.
About
Chat-driven app builders like v0, Lovable, and Bolt run in someone else's cloud; Dyad delivers the same workflow as a desktop application for Windows and macOS that keeps code, prompts, and API keys on the user's machine. Describing an app in chat produces a working full-stack web project with a real-time preview, and every iteration edits the local codebase directly, so projects open in any editor and deploy to any host with no platform lock-in. Model access is bring-your-own-key across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Qwen, or fully offline through Ollama. The core is Apache 2.0 open source, while the src/pro directory sits under the Functional Source License and backs an optional paid Pro tier with managed AI credits and extra modes; the base app downloads free with no signup. At around 21k GitHub stars it has become the default self-hosted answer to hosted AI app builders, particularly for developers who want generated code they actually own from the first prompt onward.
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Details
- Category
- AI Code Assistants
- Price
- Freemium
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Beginner (1/5)
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Added
- Aug 24, 2026
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