The Vibeary — tag

local-first

19 resources in The Vibeary tagged "local-first" — tools, libraries and references pulled from across the library's shelves, each one checked by hand before it was added.

Gems in this collection

Preview of delphi.tools

delphi.tools

Fifty-eight browser-side utilities covering image editing, colour work, typography, PDF imposition, barcodes and conversion, with no accounts or tracking.

delphifree
Preview of shotluma

shotluma

Local-first open-source App Store screenshot editor built with React and TypeScript, running entirely in the browser.

Zachi (@realZachi)MIT
Preview of PGlite

PGlite

Postgres compiled to WebAssembly as a small embeddable library that runs a real database in the browser, Node or an edge worker.

ElectricSQL (@electric-sql)Apache-2.0
Preview of LocalMode

LocalMode

Registry of browser-only AI blocks — chat, RAG, transcription and CLIP image search — that run entirely client-side with no API keys.

LocalMode AIopen-source
Preview of expo-local-first-template

expo-local-first-template

Expo starter wired for local-first apps with Bun, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Drizzle ORM and SQLite.

expo-starterMIT
Preview of Fireproof

Fireproof

Embeddable database that runs in the browser with verifiable, content-addressed storage and pluggable cloud sync backends.

Fireproof Storage (@fireproof-storage)open-source
Preview of cr-sqlite

cr-sqlite

SQLite extension that turns ordinary tables into conflict-free replicated ones, letting two databases merge changes without a central server.

Matt Wonlaw (@tantaman)open-source
Preview of Zero

Zero

Query-driven sync engine that streams a subset of your Postgres data to the client and keeps reactive queries live with optimistic writes.

Rocicorp (@rocicorp)open-source
Preview of LiveStore

LiveStore

Event-sourced local-first data layer that keeps an in-memory SQLite read model derived from an append-only log of events.

Johannes Schickling (@schickling)open-source
Preview of Verdant

Verdant

IndexedDB-backed local-first framework with schema migrations, typed queries, undo history and a self-hostable sync server.

Grant Forrest (@a-type)open-source
Preview of LLM Attention Visualization

LLM Attention Visualization

Browser tool that runs a local Transformers.js model and paints which past tokens shaped each generated token.

ishamffree
Preview of Bol

Bol

Local macOS voice loop for Claude Code and Codex: say hey Bol, dictate into the cursor, send it, and optionally hear talk-back summaries.

Abhiyan Poudel (@theubermenschh)MIT
Preview of FrameParcel

FrameParcel

Figma plugin that exports a selection as a local ZIP with previews, node geometry, SVGs and an offline browser, no API token.

@creeponskyMIT
Preview of TeXbrain

TeXbrain

LaTeX editor that compiles pdfTeX to PDF via WebAssembly in the browser, with local folder access, built-in git and offline package caching.

Braian Plaku (@swimmingbrain)MIT
Preview of Splat.js

Splat.js

Trains 3D Gaussian splats entirely in a browser tab: photos in, camera poses solved on WebGPU, standard .ply out.

Arrival Space (Stratum1 GmbH)MIT
Preview of ThoughtDAG

ThoughtDAG

Local-first canvas where graph edges define the context sent to an LLM; branch, prune and merge nodes, then inspect the exact message sequence before sending.

Chenxi Chan (@chenxiachan)MIT
Preview of Jazz

Jazz

Framework where collaborative, permissioned data structures sync themselves, with built-in auth, file handling and end-to-end encryption.

Garden Computing (@gardencmp)MIT
Preview of Evolu

Evolu

Local-first framework built on SQLite with end-to-end encryption, typed schemas and CRDT sync where the server never sees plaintext.

Daniel Steigerwald (@steida)MIT
Preview of librarian-mcp

librarian-mcp

MCP server exposing a local markdown second brain to agents with search and structured retrieval.

@ngmeyeropen-source