# OvertChat

A self-hosted chat application for local and self-hosted language models, positioned as a simpler alternative to Open WebUI, with bundled speech and web-search services so it needs no cloud provider API keys to get started.

OvertChat is a self-hosted chat interface for everyday use with local or remote language models. It connects to inference servers such as vLLM, llama.cpp or SGLang that the user already runs, or to a hosted provider, and keeps conversation history on the user's own server rather than in a cloud account.

A guided installer sets up Docker, configuration and secrets, and can bundle SearXNG for web search, Kokoro for text-to-speech and Parakeet for speech-to-text, so a fully local setup needs no provider API keys or paid credits. The interface supports collapsible reasoning and tool-activity display, projects, reusable files, searchable history, light and dark themes, and multiple accounts so a household can share the same local models with separate conversations. A command-line tool manages the installation, its services and updates.

Website: https://overtchat.com