nazrinzainal/syncera-ai-messenger

Syncera is a desktop application that helps small businesses manage their WhatsApp conversations and add AI replies on top of them. It looks like the familiar WhatsApp inbox, with contacts, message threads, and conversation history, but it runs as its own program on your computer rather than in a browser. The project is built with React for the visible interface, Electron to wrap it as a desktop app, and a library called Baileys to talk to WhatsApp. Data is stored locally on your machine using a SQL.js database, which is a SQLite-style storage layer that lives in a file. The AI side lives in a file called electron/bridge/ai.js. It can talk to several different AI backends. It supports Ollama, which is a way to run language models on your own computer, as well as LM Studio, Jan AI, and LocalAI, which are similar local options. There is also a free cloud fallback called Pollinations AI, and a small helper that uses DuckDuckGo search to feed live web results into the AI's context. If you have Ollama installed, the app finds it on its default local address and uses whichever models you have pulled. Beyond chat, the app offers broadcasts, quick send, message templates, reminders, an orders view, a pipeline, and several reports and analytics screens. A short demo video is included that shows a WhatsApp chat being used to create a calendar event inside Syncera. The public repository deliberately leaves out private customer databases, WhatsApp authentication sessions, build outputs, installers, and unredacted screenshots. To run it, you install the npm dependencies and then start it in development mode. The project is by Nazrin Zainal from Malaysia, has 20 stars, and is written in TypeScript.