SillyTavern

SillyTavern is a local open-source front end for talking to many LLM, image and text-to-speech APIs.

SillyTavern is a locally installed interface, started in February 2023 as a fork of TavernAI, for chatting with text models and optional image and speech engines. It talks to KoboldAI and KoboldCPP, AI Horde, NovelAI, Oobabooga, Tabby, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Claude, Mistral and others. Features include a mobile-friendly layout, Visual Novel mode, Automatic1111 and ComfyUI image generation, text-to-speech, WorldInfo lorebooks, auto-translate, extra prompt controls and third-party extensions. It does not host models or track users. Documentation lives on a separate site. The project has more than 300 contributors.

SillyTavern at a glance

Best for: Writer, Social media creator
Runs on: open source, self-hosted, Web
Pricing: Free and open source; connected model APIs may be billed by their providers
Released: February 2023
Category: AI chat assistant
Website: sillytavern.app

Key features

One UI for many LLM APIs including Horde, OpenAI and Claude
WorldInfo lorebooks and extra prompt controls
Automatic1111 and ComfyUI image generation
Text-to-speech and auto-translate
Visual Novel mode and a mobile-friendly layout
Third-party extensions
Local install with no hosted service

Use it for

Chat with a local KoboldCPP or Ollama-style backend
Run character chats with lorebooks and extras
Generate scene images from Automatic1111 during a chat

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