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Page Assist

Open-source (MIT) sidebar and ChatGPT-style web UI for local models via Ollama, LM Studio or Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano

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What Page Assist does

  • Open-source (MIT) sidebar and ChatGPT-style web UI for local models via Ollama, LM Studio or Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano
  • Chat with the current webpage without sending data to a cloud service
  • Works on Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi and Zen; about 8.2k GitHub stars

Page Assist — straight answers

What is Page Assist?

Page Assist is listed under Browser Extensions & Copilots, in the AI Chat & Assistants category on Flocci AI Tools. Open-source (MIT) sidebar and ChatGPT-style web UI for local models via Ollama, LM Studio or Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.

Is Page Assist free?

Page Assist is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can Page Assist do?

Page Assist does 3 things the catalog singles out: Open-source (mit) sidebar and chatgpt-style web ui for local models via ollama, lm studio or chrome's built-in gemini nano; chat with the current webpage without sending data to a cloud service; works on chrome, edge, brave, firefox, vivaldi and zen; about 8.2k github stars.

What is the best free alternative to Page Assist?

Firefox Smart Window is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Browser Extensions & Copilots sub-category and is free. Gemini in Chrome, Opera Browser AI (Aria) and Brave Leo also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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  • Access to GPT, Claude & Gemini
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Merlin AI

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  • Summarize YouTube, articles and PDFs
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MaxAI.me

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  • One-click rewrite, reply and summarize
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  • Instant translation and grammar fixes
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Harpa AI

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  • AI web automation and monitoring
  • Track prices and page changes
  • Scrape and summarize sites
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Brave Leo

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  • Built directly into the Brave browser sidebar — no separate site, no account, no signup required for free tier
  • Access to Claude, Mixtral and Llama models without opening a separate chatbot site
  • Conversations never stored on Brave's servers and not used for model training
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