Install and update
Pick a release or a branch and press Install. It clones, installs dependencies, health-checks the build and reports Ready only once SillyTavern answers on its port. It tells you when a newer release is out.
Run SillyTavern without the terminal
One control panel that installs, runs, shares, backs up and watches SillyTavern — on Windows, Android, macOS, Linux and Docker.
What it does
SillyTavern, without the parts nobody enjoys
SillyTavern is a terminal, a Git checkout and a folder of data you must not lose. This turns all three into a page you can open from any device.
Run and watch
Start, stop and open SillyTavern from the panel, with live logs from the manager, SillyTavern, the installer, backups and the tunnel in one searchable feed.
Share safely
SillyTavern itself stays on localhost. Other devices and Cloudflare Tunnel reach it through an access gateway that asks for a passcode first and never forwards the admin panel.
A link that keeps working
A Quick Tunnel’s address changes every time it starts. Sign in to Cloudflare and the manager puts sillytavern.<you>.workers.dev in front of it, on your own account, and moves it to each new tunnel — so the link you send stays the link that works.
Back up
Scheduled and manual ZIP archives, compatible with SillyTavern’s own exports, plus previewed restores and a safety snapshot before anything is replaced.
Back up off-site
One button signs in to Cloudflare, finds or creates an R2 bucket in your own account and keeps recovery points there. No keys to create or paste — or bring your own S3 keys.
Know your usage
Requests, tokens, cache hits and latency per day, per provider and per model, measured from SillyTavern’s own traffic. Nothing about it leaves the machine.
Keep data separate
Named profiles for separate SillyTavern data sets, switched from the panel, each with its own backups.
Speak your language
English and Vietnamese, light and dark, desktop and phone. The panel is usable with one thumb on a bus.
Install
Six ways in, one first run
Whichever you choose, the first visit asks you to create one administrator password. Then pick a SillyTavern version and press Install.
Windows
Download the portable ZIP, extract it, double-click. Node.js is already inside; nothing needs a terminal.
Windows guideAndroid · Termux
Three blocks of commands to paste. The manager then runs on the phone and is opened in the phone’s browser.
Termux guidemacOS
Node.js 22, a clone, npm ci, and the Unix launcher. Apple Silicon and Intel alike.
macOS guideLinux and VPS
The same launcher, plus a systemd unit if you want it to come back after a reboot.
Linux guideDocker
Build the image, mount a volume at /data, publish 7860 and 8001. Hosted platforms work the same way.
Docker guidenpm
npx sillytavern-manager, or install it globally. The published package carries the built panel.
npm guideHow it works
Three ports, and two different links
SillyTavern is never the thing exposed. What you share is the gateway, which asks for a passcode and never forwards the admin panel. The panel has a separate link of its own, behind the manager password, for when the machine you need is not the one in front of you.
| Port | What listens | Who can reach it |
|---|---|---|
7860 | The manager panel | This machine, and you from anywhere once you switch its own link on |
8000 | SillyTavern | This machine only |
8001 | The access gateway | Your local network or a Cloudflare Tunnel, after a passcode |
The link you give somebody else opens the gateway, never the panel: nobody who has it can install, restore or delete anything. Opening the panel to the internet is a second switch, in Settings, and it asks for the manager password.
The panel
Built to be read at a glance
The same interface on a desktop and on a phone, in light and dark, in English and Vietnamese.
Backups
Your data, kept somewhere else as well
Local archives are always available. Off-site is one button, into a bucket in your own Cloudflare account.
Compatible archives
A streaming ZIP that SillyTavern’s own import understands. Secrets are excluded by default and including them is a deliberate act with a warning.
Previewed restores
An archive is read and shown before anything is written, and a safety snapshot is taken before a replace or a profile switch.
Your Cloudflare, not ours
Sign in, pick the account, and the bucket is created in it. Backups go from your machine to your bucket; no server of this project is in the path.
Backups are a tool, not a guarantee. Test a restore, and keep at least one copy the manager did not make.
Privacy
Nothing you write ever reaches us
There is no account, no cloud and no copy of your data held by this project. Chats, characters, prompts, settings, backups and API keys stay on machines you control.
The manager sends one thing: a small, allowlisted usage summary — platform, version, and per request the provider, model, endpoint hostname, token counts, status and duration. It never sends prompts, chats, model responses, API keys, file names, paths, IP addresses or query strings.
The complete list, and how to switch the sending off entirely, is in the Privacy Notice.
Start with one download
Nothing to sign up for. The Windows build is portable; every other platform is a clone and a launcher.