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These kinds of apps are becoming dime a dozen. It would be nice to know how this one differentiates itself. Not obvious from the website.

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It seems like that until you actually try to use them. Not many are actually polished, support formatting, history, and multiple endpoints. There's lots of trivial apps abandoned after a few days, but what are the actually functional, good quality alternatives to this one? (That don't pass your query/answer through a third-party for data collection)

I use https://www.typingmind.com/. It is paid, but I've found it to be a reliable front end to OpenAI/Claude/Google, supporting everything you mention. I haven't done any hyper detailed security audit but after watching network requests I'm pretty confident it's not sending my chats anywhere except to the relevant provider endpoints.

Considering how much I use it, I've found it to be well worth the cost. The creator is pretty on top of model/API changes.

i’ll second that recommendation… i use it through the SetApp store and i’ve been very pleasantly surprised by its documentation and ability to work with most services.

It's not a standalone app though. There's lots of web interfaces, but that's not the same. (I mean, it's a cool thing, but not what jan.ai is)

There is a desktop app available (I mean it’s basically a wrapper around the web UI, but still).

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