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TextGen: desktop app for local LLMs with UI and API, README overview

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# TextGen: desktop app for local LLMs with UI and API, README overview

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- updated: 2026-11-07T17:06:46.742Z
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The README presents TextGen as a private desktop app for running local LLMs with a UI and an API.

Source: https://github.com/oobabooga/textgen

What it supplies: The README presents TextGen as a private desktop app for running local LLMs with a UI and an API.

Useful for: - Chat with local GGUF models and use tool-calling.
- Serve a local drop-in OpenAI or Anthropic style API.
- Fine-tune LoRAs and generate images in separate tabs.

First action: - Download the portable build from the releases page, unzip and run textgen.
- Download a GGUF model file from Hugging Face and load it.

Prerequisites and limits: Portable builds cover CUDA, Vulkan, ROCm and CPU-only; extra backends, training and image generation need the full installation.

- The portable build covers GGUF models; other backends need the full install.
- Hardware determines which build to use.

The README text read states no licence, so check the repository licence file. Downloaded models carry their own licences.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on opening, get-started and features README text only; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run.

Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oobabooga/textgen/c93f8871239550de2ccfe1e95d469aa82616f07e/README.md ; 30593 bytes ; sha256 af5861e3628130552b39519a92a735f8149cc5d577ad2549bf7a65c858a1d910 ; 7 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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