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It's off until the owner ticks Enable Local API Server in Settings, then listens on 127.0.0.1:4891 over plain HTTP and sends `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` on every response. Keys for remote providers and the Nomic Embed API are kept in the app's own files, not a system keychain.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT with nothing to buy. Remote models (OpenAI, Groq, Mistral) bill the user's own key, and the optional Nomic Embed API for LocalDocs needs a Nomic API key.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-03).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 77400, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 10957, "asOf": "2026-10-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.gpt4all.io", "capabilities": [ "inference.local", "inference.open-weights", "memory.search", "embed.text" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "free", "no-card", "no-key", "openai-compatible", "open-weights", "python" ], "lastRelease": "2025-02-24", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 36.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 438, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 41, "maintenance": 6, "payments": 60, "reliability": 56, "schema": 40, "security": 28, "transparency": 57 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-03" }, "negative": -6, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-06-26. Two security reports filed as public issues, unanswered, with no release since. #3681, the local API server sends `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` on every response (gpt4all-chat/src/server.cpp line 614) and has no authentication, so a web page open in the user's browser can call /v1/chat/completions while the server is on and read the answers, including LocalDocs snippets from the owner's files. #3682, the model catalogue and the fallback model download use plain http://gpt4all.io, and the app turns TLS certificate checks off on nine request sites. A host-header fix has sat unmerged on the mitigate-dns-rebind branch since 27 May 2025. Unfixed, with the server off by default, -6. https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/issues/3681; https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/issues/3682" ], "verdict": "MIT, with installers for Windows x64 and ARM64, macOS 12.6 or later and Linux, and published minimum and recommended hardware. No release since 24 February 2025 and no commit to main since 27 May 2025.", "strengths": [ "MIT, with installers for Windows x64 and ARM64, macOS 12.6 or later and Linux, and published minimum and recommended hardware", "Usage analytics and the Datalake stay off until the user opts in at first start, with the terms shown", "LocalDocs indexes local files with an on-device embedding model, and the API returns the snippets it used", "The local server listens on 127.0.0.1 only and refuses unsupported OpenAI parameters by name", "A dated changelog per version in Keep a Changelog form" ], "weaknesses": [ "No release since 24 February 2025 and no commit to main since 27 May 2025", "The local server has no authentication and sends `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *`, so a web page can call it while it's on", "The model catalogue and fallback downloads use plain HTTP, and nine request sites turn TLS certificate checks off", "No streaming, tool calling or structured output on the API", "No SECURITY.md or security.txt, and the June 2026 security reports have no reply" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the owner to tick Enable Local API Server in Settings. Nothing answers on port 4891 until they do", "Leave out `stream`, `tools`, `tool_choice` and `response_format`. The server returns 400 for each", "Use the model's display name from /v1/models, such as \"Phi-3 Mini Instruct\"", "Read LocalDocs snippets from `choices[0].references`. Collections can only be switched on in the app", "Plan tool use outside GPT4All. Its API can't call tools" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 1, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 36.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 41, "maintenance": 6, "payments": 60, "reliability": 56, "schema": 40, "security": 28, "transparency": 54 }, "provenanceScore": 59 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install gpt4all # Python SDK. The desktop app, which runs the API server, installs from https://gpt4all.io/installers/", "http": "curl -X POST http://localhost:4891/v1/chat/completions -d '{\n \"model\": \"Phi-3 Mini Instruct\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Who is Lionel Messi?\"}],\n \"max_tokens\": 50,\n \"temperature\": 0.28\n}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.local", "tool": "https://letme.dev/gpt4all" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nomic, Inc.", "domain": "nomic.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://www.nomic.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/blob/main/gpt4all-chat/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-03", "notes": [ "`LICENSE.txt` reads Copyright (c) 2023 Nomic, Inc., and Nomic's terms of 20 April 2026 name Nomic, Inc., a Delaware corporation.", "Nomic's terms at nomic.ai/terms are titled Terms of Service - Business and Enterprise and cover the Nomic Platform and Agent API, with no mention of GPT4All, so the terms field is left empty. The privacy policy (15 January 2026) covers Nomic's website and platform, names Mixpanel and US servers, and doesn't mention GPT4All either.", "nomic.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and the repository has no SECURITY.md.", "Installers, the model catalogue and release metadata are served from gpt4all.io, and docs from docs.gpt4all.io. There's no hosted endpoint, and the API server runs on the owner's machine." ], "score": 59 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt4all.json", "live": { "slug": "gpt4all", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "nomic-ai/gpt4all", "version": "v3.10.0", "released": "2025-02-25", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:29:09.461389939Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "gpt4all", "version": "2.8.2", "released": "2024-08-14", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:29:09.272667442Z" } ], "githubStars": 77389, "pypiWeekly": 11066, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://nomic.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:16:05.081218945Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "nomic.ai", "registered": "2021-10-22", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/nomic.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:16.171290345Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/main/gpt4all-chat/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:47:47.23724269Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "5e4e4d883d6e" }, { "url": "https://www.nomic.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:26.446741226Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f695eccff4e0" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T16:29:09.461389939Z" } }, "b": { "slug": "localghost", "name": "LocalGhost", "vendor": "LocalGhost", "vendorUrl": "https://www.localghost.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "local-ai", "summary": "Pre-release, open-source personal AI server that runs on hardware its owner keeps, started in London in December 2025.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json", "repo": "https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "pat", "authNotes": "No credential for third-party agents. The companion app presents a client certificate issued by the box's own certificate authority (ECDSA P-256, valid ten years, no scopes) and a session token of at most 48 hours from a PIN unlock, sent in a header. Enrolment is one animated QR code carrying a `localghost://enroll` link whose query string holds the device's certificate and private key. Since 2 October 2026 the box draws that QR only on an interactive terminal and never prints the link as text, and after the first unlock the phone swaps the QR's key for one it makes in the Android Keystore and the box retires the QR's certificate (https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/server/internal/secd/rekey.go). A request without a valid certificate, from a retired phone or to a locked box gets the same 503. Since wisp 0.0.2 (2 October 2026) one phone can be retired by its key with ghost-cli ghost.secd retire or from another phone (POST /v1/devices/retire), and the retire button in the app isn't built yet. On a fresh box nginx terminates the phone's TLS and passes the device certificate to ghost.secd as an X-Client-Cert header that any local process on the box can forge, until the operator runs ghost-ctl edge-passthrough and writes tls to /etc/ghost/edge, after which ghost.secd checks the certificate itself (https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/server/internal/secd/edge.go).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "The software is free under MIT, with no subscription and no account. Nothing is on sale yet. Pre-built boxes are planned as a one-time purchase at the cost of parts and assembly plus a 30% margin, price not set, and optional future daemons may be sold as one-time packages. The June 2026 reference build is about £1,130 in parts (https://www.localghost.ai/about).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No payments of any kind. The software is free and nothing is sold yet (checked 2026-10-02).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 16, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-02" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/server/tools/README.md", "llmsTxt": "https://www.localghost.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "memory.store", "memory.search", "memory.user", "memory.delete" ], "tags": [ "local", "self-hosted", "open-source", "free", "go", "llms-txt", "no-telemetry", "pre-1.0", "uk" ], "graded": true, "own": true, "disclosure": "LocalGhost is built by Anchor Terminal's founder. Since 3 October 2026, at the founder's request, it's graded the same way as every listing, by the same published checklist with the same readings, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed. The review panel doesn't review it, and letme never picks it.", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.8, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 396, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 2, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 60, "reliability": 59, "schema": 44, "security": 52, "transparency": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-03" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-09-19 to 2026-10-03, unfixed at HEAD d4decab. The README ('One thing leaves the phone'), the privacy page ('The phone talks to your box and nothing else, apart from two things'), the setup page ('The phone sends one thing') and llms.txt ('no position leaves either device') describe less than the app sends. Since 19 September it passes each new location fix to Android's system Geocoder when the phone has moved 20 km or 12 hours have passed, a network call on some phones by its own code comment, and since 20 September it sends currency amounts to api.frankfurter.app and who-is subjects to Wikipedia's summary API, named only in the engineering journal, though the chat shows those two as sources when it uses them. Until 0.0.3 the same claim stood while the app sent the phone's position to Open-Meteo for a weather question naming no place. wisp 0.0.3 removed that call on 3 October and its notes, the privacy page, llms.txt and the changelog say so, so that part adds nothing. One misleading claim, still partly false, -3. https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/app/android/app/src/main/java/com/localghost/app/sync/LocationLog.kt; https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/app/android/app/src/main/java/com/localghost/app/net/WebSearch.kt; https://www.localghost.ai/privacy" ], "verdict": "The server and Android app are MIT-licensed, with no telemetry libraries found. There is no agent API, MCP server or SDK; unpaired callers receive HTTP 503.", "disclosure": "LocalGhost is built by Anchor Terminal's founder. Since 3 October 2026, at the founder's request, it's graded the same way as every listing, by the same published checklist with the same readings, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed. The review panel doesn't review it, and letme never picks it.", "strengths": [ "MIT for the server and the Android app, with no telemetry, analytics or crash-reporting library in either", "The archive sits on a LUKS2 volume whose key is sealed to the TPM through go-tpm and opened by a PIN from the phone, with a wipe PIN that answers like a wrong one", "Per-device client certificates from the box's own CA, rekeyed into the Android Keystore at the first unlock since 2 October 2026, and one phone can be retired by its key since 0.0.2", "Server releases are built with CGO off, -trimpath and no build id, the v0.0.3 source archive matches the tag's 846 files, and SHA256SUMS.asc verifies against the key in the repository (DCE9 A3D1 4EB4 6197 1DD5 F393 706E 4194 F08A 09A0)", "A valid RFC 9116 security.txt to 2027-10-01 and a SECURITY.md with PGP, a 72-hour acknowledgement, 90-day disclosure and a commitment not to sue" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or SDK for agents, and every caller but the paired phone gets the same 503 as a box that is down", "The app sends currency questions to Frankfurter, who-is questions to Wikipedia and location fixes to Android's geocoder, none of them named in the README, privacy page or llms.txt", "Release binaries are built with Go 1.25.4, and the 35 standard-library advisories fixed in Go 1.25.5 to 1.25.13 include crypto/tls, crypto/x509 and net/http", "Pre-1.0 at 0.0.3, three releases within 16 hours, CI one day old, and the app's 50 JVM test files have no passing CI run while the README and CONTRIBUTING.md say they run on every push", "A fresh box trusts a device-certificate header any local process can forge until the operator runs `ghost-ctl edge-passthrough`" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't call a LocalGhost box. Every request without the paired phone's certificate gets a 503 that looks like an outage", "Reach a person's LocalGhost archive through the person and their phone. Nothing in wisp 0.0.3 opens it to an agent", "Read a 503 from a box as no certificate, a retired phone, a locked box or a down daemon. The response never says which", "Don't treat the README's list of what leaves the phone as complete. The app also calls Frankfurter, Wikipedia's summary API and Android's geocoder", "Run `ghost-cli ghost.\u003cname\u003e commands` first if an operator hands you a root shell on an unlocked box. It lists command names only, takes key=value arguments and prints JSON" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 2, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 60, "reliability": 59, "schema": 44, "security": 52, "transparency": 72 }, "provenanceScore": 82 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.store" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "LocalGhost.ai Ltd (company number 17213100, registered in England and Wales, incorporated 12 May 2026)", "domain": "localghost.ai", "domainRegistered": "2025-12-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.localghost.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.localghost.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "https://www.localghost.ai/status", "changelog": "https://www.localghost.ai/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-03", "notes": [ "LocalGhost.ai Ltd is active at Companies House (company number 17213100, incorporated 12 May 2026, registered office in London, checked 3 October 2026) and is named on the about, privacy and terms pages. The `LICENSE` copyright line reads LocalGhostDao, which the terms page also names as the copyright holder.", "Self-hosted software with no hosted endpoint. The privacy and terms pages, both updated 3 October 2026, cover the website, the mirror and the software. The status page (updated 2 October 2026) covers the website, the mirror and the releases, is updated by hand and records no incidents since it started on 2 October 2026 (website repository at commit 8b7efdc).", "www.localghost.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned a valid RFC 9116 file on 3 October 2026 (Contact, Expires 2027-10-01, Encryption, Preferred-Languages, Canonical, Policy). The key at /.well-known/pgp-key.asc is the one in the code repository (server/tools/mirror-key.asc) and signs the release sums, fingerprint DCE9 A3D1 4EB4 6197 1DD5 F393 706E 4194 F08A 09A0, and SHA256SUMS.asc on the v0.0.3 release verified against it on 3 October 2026.", "The changelog page went up on 2 October 2026 and on 3 October held ten dated entries from 24 September to 3 October, three of them software releases, so its September entries were written after the fact (website repository at commit 8b7efdc). RELEASES.md and server/releases/ in the code repository hold the notes per release.", "The privacy and mirror pages say the website and mirror keep no access logs, and the nginx config in the public web repository has access_log off with the error log at crit. Whether the live server runs that config wasn't checked. localghost.ai was registered on 17 December 2025 through Cloudflare, per the .ai RDAP record (checked 3 October 2026)." ], "score": 82 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.json", "live": { "slug": "localghost", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.localghost.ai/status", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:13.332146348Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "LocalGhostDao/localghost", "version": "v0.0.3", "released": "2026-10-03", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:32:06.50347713Z" } ], "githubStars": 16, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://localghost.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-10-01T00:00:00Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:16:05.182655127Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:57.094820704Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "localghost.ai", "registered": "2025-12-17", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/localghost.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:18.163428935Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:06.104501555Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:06.104501555Z", "fingerprint": "6c0fff855728" }, { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:08.118702502Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:08.118702502Z", "fingerprint": "7062ca414be5" }, { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:10.115688838Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "422dab2e108c" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:13.332146348Z" }, "vendorLinked": true }, "summary": "LocalGhost has a score of 45.8 (E) against GPT4All's 36.3 (F). Both do memory search. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 65 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-localghost", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-localghost.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-localghost.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-localghost.min.md" }, "markdown": "LocalGhost has a score of 45.8 (E) against GPT4All's 36.3 (F). Both do memory search. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 65 points.\n\n- GPT4All: grade F, 36.3/100, rank #438 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt4all.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gpt4all.json\n- LocalGhost: grade E, 45.8/100, rank #396 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick GPT4All for agent ergonomics (+39).\n\nPick LocalGhost for security \u0026 auth (+24), maintenance \u0026 community (+65), transparency \u0026 trust (+20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | GPT4All | LocalGhost | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 56 | 59 | LocalGhost +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 40 | 44 | LocalGhost +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 41 | 2 | GPT4All +39 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 28 | 52 | LocalGhost +24 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 6 | 71 | LocalGhost +65 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 77 | LocalGhost +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -6 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **36.3 · F** | **45.8 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | GPT4All | LocalGhost |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | Model platform |\n| Vendor | Nomic, Inc. | LocalGhost |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | Token |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (app, backend and bindings). Models downloaded through the app carry their own licences | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2025-02-24 | none |\n| Popularity | 77k stars, 11k PyPI/wk | 16 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 1/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**GPT4All.** MIT, with installers for Windows x64 and ARM64, macOS 12.6 or later and Linux, and published minimum and recommended hardware. No release since 24 February 2025 and no commit to main since 27 May 2025.\n\n**LocalGhost.** The server and Android app are MIT-licensed, with no telemetry libraries found. There is no agent API, MCP server or SDK; unpaired callers receive HTTP 503.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### GPT4All\n\n1. Ask the owner to tick Enable Local API Server in Settings. Nothing answers on port 4891 until they do\n2. Leave out `stream`, `tools`, `tool_choice` and `response_format`. The server returns 400 for each\n3. Use the model's display name from /v1/models, such as \"Phi-3 Mini Instruct\"\n4. Read LocalDocs snippets from `choices[0].references`. Collections can only be switched on in the app\n5. Plan tool use outside GPT4All. Its API can't call tools\n\n### LocalGhost\n\n1. Don't call a LocalGhost box. Every request without the paired phone's certificate gets a 503 that looks like an outage\n2. Reach a person's LocalGhost archive through the person and their phone. Nothing in wisp 0.0.3 opens it to an agent\n3. Read a 503 from a box as no certificate, a retired phone, a locked box or a down daemon. The response never says which\n4. Don't treat the README's list of what leaves the phone as complete. The app also calls Frankfurter, Wikipedia's summary API and Android's geocoder\n5. Run `ghost-cli ghost.\u003cname\u003e commands` first if an operator hands you a root shell on an unlocked box. It lists command names only, takes key=value arguments and prints JSON\n\n## Other comparisons with GPT4All or LocalGhost\n\n- [AnythingLLM vs GPT4All](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-gpt4all.md)\n- [GPT4All vs Jan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-jan.md)\n- [GPT4All vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-khoj.md)\n- [GPT4All vs llama.cpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-llama-cpp.md)\n- [GPT4All vs LM Studio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-lm-studio.md)\n- [GPT4All vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-localai.md)\n- [GPT4All vs Ollama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-ollama.md)\n- [GPT4All vs Open WebUI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-open-webui.md)\n- [GPT4All vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-screenpipe.md)\n- [Cognee vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Graphiti vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphiti-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Hindsight vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hindsight-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Honcho vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-localghost.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs Mem0 Platform + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-mem0.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs Supermemory API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-supermemory.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs Zep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-zep.md)\n- [GPT4All vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-underdog.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Khoj vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localghost.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-screenpipe.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- LocalGhost is built by Anchor Terminal's founder. Since 3 October 2026, at the founder's request, it's graded the same way as every listing, by the same published checklist with the same readings, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed. 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