# janhq/jan

> Jan is an open-source desktop app that runs LLMs locally on your computer, offering a private, offline alternative to ChatGPT with optional cloud model connections.

- Magnitude: 2.1 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 45,170 total · +7 stars measured 2026-10-30, 10:49–13:08 UTC, ≈ 16 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · Created: 2023-08-17 · Last push: 2026-10-30
- GitHub: https://github.com/janhq/jan · Homepage: https://jan.ai/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/janhq/jan

## Useful for

- Run local LLMs like Llama or Qwen offline for private chat without sending data to the cloud.
- Connect to OpenAI or Anthropic models through the app when local hardware is insufficient.
- Expose a local OpenAI-compatible API on localhost:1337 for other applications to use.

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-30 (UTC), 10:49–13:08: 45163 → 45170 stars (+7). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +17 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending Rust today: #17, +34 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3,117
- Issues and pull requests: 8,920
- Watchers: 226
- Average over the last week: 21 per day
- Usual pace: 19 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 4
- Latest release: v0.8.8 (2026-10-28)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-01 … 2026-10-30: 18, 20, 17, 24, 15, 29, 19, 14, 23, 13, 22, 29, 19, 21, 13, 21, 17, 28, 17, 11, 17, 20, 8, 19, 26, 21, 20, 14, 32, 7

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Rust today: #17, +34 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-30 13:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.