TavernAI

TavernAI is a desktop application for AI roleplay chat. The official site now presents TavernAI 2, currently version 2.5, for Windows 10 and 11 as a portable app that needs no account. Users bring their own model: GGUF language and vision models can be loaded directly with CPU, CUDA or Vulkan, or the same chat can be switched to more than a dozen built in and custom API providers. The app is built for people who want detailed control over characters, worlds and prompts. Chats branch, and any number of participants can be added, with each deciding independently whether the AI or the user plays them. Every character is an ordered prompt tree containing prompts, folders, rules, scripts and files, and its avatar, identity and behavior travel together in one card. A Prompt Manager exposes the whole generation pipeline with activation rules, roles, placement, token counters and presets, and the final assembled prompt can be inspected before generation. Files such as images, PDFs, audio and video can be attached directly to prompt items. Characters can keep separate histories and knowledge that merge when they meet, and the app can also host interactive AI games with their own interface and state. Media Tools let any chat model request images from Google AI, OpenAI, xAI or NovelAI, and the interface can be restyled and saved as a theme. A Linux server install is offered through a terminal script. The site publishes no pricing, and users pay only for whichever AI provider they connect.