Non-commercial only
7 projects tagged Non-commercial only, in the order of our ranking. Some replace a paid product; others are free tools people use alongside one.
Most often they replace ElevenLabs, Descript or Grok Bot. 7 of 7 run on your own machine. The most starred is VoiceStudio, with 99k stars on GitHub.
| Compare | Project | Runs on my machine | Allowed at work | Paid services | Hardware | Setup | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoiceStudioLocal desktop app for voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription and audiobooks, built on OmniVoice and other engines. | Yes | NoAGPL-3.0-only | Optional only | No graphics card needed | Easy | 99k+9,787 this week | |
| F5-TTSFlow-matching text-to-speech research model that clones a voice zero-shot from a reference audio clip. | Yes | NoMIT | None required | See its page | Medium | 16k+44 this week | |
| OpenBotDesktop workspace for persistent AI agents run by Codex, Claude Code, Grok and other CLIs, with task queues and a built-in browser. Non-commercial licence. | Yes | NoPolyForm Noncommercial, not OSI open source | Optional only | Not documented | Easy | 4.8k | |
| RescriptTranscript-based audio and video editor; delete words in the transcript to cut the media. Runs on-device. Non-commercial licence. | Yes | NoPolyForm Noncommercial, not OSI open source | None required | No graphics card needed | Easy | 1.0k+70 this week | |
| AutoShorts (JayWebtech)Tauri desktop app that transcribes a long recording, ranks viral moments with an LLM and center-crops them into vertical 9:16 clips. | Yes | NoNo licence | Optional only | See its page | Easy | 1.4k+90 this week | |
| AudioCraft (MusicGen)Meta's research library for MusicGen, a text-to-music model for short instrumental clips, optionally guided by a hummed or played melody. | Yes | NoMIT | None required | Needs a graphics card | Medium | 24k+35 this week | |
| CodeFormerFace restoration model from NTU S-Lab with a fidelity slider, video input and face colorization; non-commercial licence. | Yes | NoNTU S-Lab License 1.0, not OSI open source | None required | See its page | Medium | 18k+10 this week |
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