botanika-desktop

Botanika

A local LLM + tooling (with MCP support) client. All data is stored locally. Bring your own API keys.

Client Features

Support	TTS	STT	Open source	MCP Support	Desktop App	Web App
Botanika	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
ChatGPT	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅
Copilot	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅
Claude	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅
T3.Chat	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅

Native integrations

If you want to use any of these integrations, add them on the "Settings" page.

Integration name	MCP Server URL
Google Search	http://localhost:48678/mcp/sse/google/search
Spotify	http://localhost:48678/mcp/sse/spotify

Supported LLM providers

Provider	Notes	API key link	Environment variable
OpenAI		OpenAI	OPENAI_API_KEY
Groq		Groq	GROQ_API_KEY
OpenRouter		OpenRouter	OPENROUTER_API_KEY
Azure			AZURE_RESOURCE_NAME, AZURE_API_KEY
Ollama	Might not work		OLLAMA_URL

Transcription

If you don't want to use OpenAI, you can use Whisper locally. This requires a bit of setup:

Install pnpm, then run the following command and wait until the model is downloaded:

pnpm whisper-tnode download --model large-v1

Screenshots

Run

You can set your environment variables in the .env file or through the "Settings" page.

npm run setup

npm install

npm run dev

LLM provider

An LLM provider is used to generate most responses.

Provider name	ENV variable	API key link
OpenAI	OPENAI_API_KEY	OpenAI
Groq	GROQ_API_KEY	Groq