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One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what Claude does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What Claude does

Chat with an AI assistantcore
Writing and editingcore
Coding helpcore
File and image analysis
Projects and knowledge
Web search
Artifacts
Desktop and mobile apps

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
hobDesktop app for running open-weight models like Gemma locally on any OS	Replaces it68%	537+19	208	15 days ago	Too few	Install like an app	MIT
Covers 2 of 3 core jobs. Partly: Coding help; Projects and knowledge; Artifacts; Desktop and mobile apps. Not shown: Web search.See the evidence Chat with an AI assistantcoreYesyou can chat, create documents, analyze data, run code Writing and editingcoreYeseveryday work like writing, summaries, spreadsheets, and research Coding helpcorePartlyruns code in a sandbox File and image analysisYesreads and edits your files and folders, looks at images Projects and knowledgePartlyShare the folders you choose Web searchNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. ArtifactsPartlyGet results you can open, edit, and share. Desktop and mobile appsPartlyDownload for Mac · Windows · Linux

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