ruby_llm
One beautiful Ruby API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Ollama, VertexAI, Perplexity, Mistral, GPUStack & OpenAI compatible APIs. Chat, Vision, Audio, PDF, Images, Embeddings, Tools, Streaming & Rails integration. (by crmne)
AppleAI
A MacOS menu bar app for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, DeepSeek, Grok and many more into one streamlined interface (by bunnysayzz)
| ruby_llm | AppleAI | |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1 | |
| 3,309 | 111 | |
| 6.0% | 5.4% | |
| 9.8 | 8.3 | |
| about 1 month ago | 3 months ago | |
| Ruby | Swift | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ruby_llm
Posts with mentions or reviews of ruby_llm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-12-09.
- ruby-openai VS ruby_llm - a user suggested alternative 2 projects | 9 Dec 2025
ruby_llm seems to be the most popular "AI integration" gem these days.
- RubyLLM 1.4.0: Structured Output, Custom Parameters, and Rails Generators
- Async Ruby is the Future of AI Apps (And It's Already Here)
Then, building RubyLLM and Chat with Work, I noticed that LLM communication is async Ruby's killer app. The unique demands of streaming AI responses -- long-lived connections, token-by-token delivery, thousands of concurrent conversations -- expose exactly why async matters.
- RubyLLM 1.3.0: Just When You Thought the Developer Experience Couldn't Get Any Better 🎉
Want to shape RubyLLM's future? Join us on GitHub.
- ruby_llm VS langchainrb - a user suggested alternative 2 projects | 14 May 2025
- langchainrb VS ruby_llm - a user suggested alternative 2 projects | 14 May 2025
- RubyLLM 1.2.0: Now works with any OpenAI-compatible API (Ollama, Azure, etc.)
- RubyLLM 1.1.0: AWS Bedrock support, resilient error handling for LLMs, and more
- RubyLLM 1.1.0rc1 is out with Bedrock support and other improvements
- Ruby LLM
AppleAI
Posts with mentions or reviews of AppleAI. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
- Introducing Apple AI: A Native macOS Menu Bar App for Seamless AI Integration
Unified access to multiple AI tools Optimized for macOS speed and efficiency Persistent sessions to maintain chat context Sleek, macOS-compliant UI Download it now on GitHub and let me know your thoughts! Feedback is always appreciated.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ruby_llm and AppleAI you can also consider the following projects:
activeagent - ActiveAgent Rails framework for Agent Apps
Sidekick - A native macOS app that allows users to chat with a local LLM that can respond with information from files, folders and websites on your Mac without installing any other software. Powered by llama.cpp.
simple-openai - A Java library to use the OpenAI Api in the simplest possible way.
langchain-swift - 🚀 LangChain for Swift. Optimized for iOS, macOS, watchOS (part) and visionOS.(beta)
omniai - OmniAI standardizes the APIs for multiple AI providers like OpenAI's Chat GPT, Mistral's LeChat, Claude's Anthropic, Google's Gemini and DeepSeek's Chat..
cctray - macOS menu bar app for monitoring Claude Code usage