Onit SideKick
AI Assistant
v3.0
Onit SideKick is a macOS desktop application that provides an AI chat sidebar dockable to any app window.4mo agoNo DockerEasy
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About these Cursor Chat alternatives
1 open-source, self-hosted alternatives to Cursor Chat are listed here, ranked by popularity, maintenance and documentation.
- Highest rated
- Onit SideKick (1 095 GitHub stars, Other license, written in Swift)
- Easiest to set up
- Onit SideKick
- Recently updated
- Onit SideKick v3.0 on 2026-06-27
Cursor Chat alternatives compared
| Project | License | Language | Stars | Docker | Setup | Latest release | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onit SideKick | Other | Swift | 1 095 | — | Easy | v3.0 | 47 |