RabbitHoles AI

RabbitHoles AI is a desktop chat client built around an infinite canvas where every conversation lives as its own node. Instead of cramming research into one runaway thread, you spawn branches from any message, drag related chats onto the same board, and pull in PDFs, websites, images, and YouTube transcripts as extra context. Conversations are stored locally on your machine, and you bring your own API keys for the underlying providers.

It is built for researchers, developers, and knowledge workers who routinely chase tangents and want to keep the trail visible. The pricing is a one-time lifetime purchase (around $249 retail, frequently discounted to ~$79 on deal sites) on a bring-your-own-key model, which makes it a sharp counter to the $20/mo-per-app subscription pile if you already pay OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, or Perplexity directly. There is also an MIT-licensed open-source spinoff (AsyncFuncAI/rabbitholes) for the curious.

Under the hood it is multi-model: switch between Anthropic, Google, Groq, Perplexity, and custom providers per node, with per-node system prompt and temperature. Exports to JSON or Markdown, unlimited canvases, and the local-first storage model mean your research graph is portable rather than locked inside someone's cloud.