Local AI Apps for Mac and MacBook

Kai 9000 is a personal AI assistant for people who want remembered context and tools that can act on their requests. Its responses can include interactive screens such as quizzes, recipe cards and dashboards.

Upscayl is an AI image upscaler for people working with small photos, illustrations or other low-resolution images. Its desktop app processes images locally, with a separate cloud offering for work across devices.

Vellium is a desktop AI app for writers and people who want conversations with fictional characters. It combines multi-character roleplay with writing projects and lets you choose the model provider.

vLLM Metal lets developers serve language models on Apple Silicon Macs through vLLM. It's for people who want to use their Mac's hardware for local AI inference while keeping vLLM's API server and request scheduling.

Mylio Photos organizes photos, videos and documents scattered across devices and drives into one library. It's for personal collections, family archives and business media libraries whose owners want to choose where their files live.

VoiceInk is a local AI dictation app for Mac users who want to speak emails, notes, and prompts into the applications they already use. Speech transcription works offline.

Reins is a chat app for people using self-hosted LLMs through Ollama. It gives you a mobile and desktop interface for comparing models and keeping different instructions for different conversations.

ZeroClaw is a personal AI agent for people who want an assistant running on their own computer or server. It can use a shell and browser, respond through messaging apps and perform scheduled tasks.

LM Studio runs downloaded language models for conversations and tasks on your computer. Its Bionic agent helps people create documents, write software and carry out work using local or frontier open models.

Murmure turns speech into text on your computer for people dictating notes, documents or code who want to keep recordings off cloud transcription services. It uses NVIDIA Parakeet and works offline without an account.

unbagrnd removes image backgrounds locally for people who need cutouts without uploading pictures to a cloud service. It includes an app for individual images and folders, plus a self-hosted API for developers.

Terax brings a terminal, code editor and AI coding agents into one desktop workspace. It's for developers who want to work with agents alongside their shell, files and running app.

Argmax OSS Swift is a speech AI SDK for developers building iOS and macOS apps that process audio on the user's device. Its separate libraries cover transcription, identifying speakers and generating spoken audio.

Locally AI is a native assistant for people who want to use language and vision models on their own Apple devices. It handles text, images and spoken conversations without sending AI processing to a cloud service.

FluidVoice turns speech into text in Mac apps, including email, documents, chat, terminals and code editors. It suits people who want local dictation with optional editing before text reaches the active app.

Cherry Studio is a desktop AI chat app for people who use several model providers and want one place to manage their conversations. It supports local model connections as well as cloud services.

Aiko turns recorded meetings, lectures and voice memos into text for people who want to keep their audio on their own device. It processes completed recordings rather than live speech and doesn't identify individual speakers.

Enconvo is a native Mac AI assistant for people who want help with writing, research and tasks inside their everyday apps. It uses screen and selected-text context so you can ask about what you're working on without moving everything into a separate chat.

Chatbox is an AI chat app for people who want to use local models and cloud providers in one interface. It supports Ollama for local LLM use, plus GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek with your own API keys.

Buzz turns speech into transcripts and subtitles on your computer. It's for people working with recordings or providing live captions who want offline transcription and translation into English.

Osaurus runs AI agents on your Mac for tasks such as reviewing documents, organizing files, and writing code. It keeps agent memory on your computer, so you can change models without losing the context of your work.

Linguist is a browser translation extension for people reading, communicating or studying across languages. You can choose on-device translation or connect a translation service that suits your needs.

PicoClaw is a self-hosted personal AI assistant that can use local models through Ollama or vLLM. It's aimed at people who want an agent on their own hardware, including small Linux boards and Android phones. Hosted providers are optional, but choosing OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini or DeepSeek sends model requests to those services and requires internet access and API keys.

AI Notebook is a desktop research notebook for asking questions about your own documents and checking the passages behind the answers. It suits people who want a local NotebookLM alternative with their research and notes in one workspace.

GPT4All is a local AI chatbot for people who want language models and document conversations on their own computer. Model inference and LocalDocs processing run on the device without a cloud connection.

RecurseChat is a Mac app for people who want private AI conversations and answers drawn from their own documents. Local models run without an internet connection or a separate server.

Noema is a local AI assistant for people who want to chat with models and get answers from their files on Apple devices. It brings models, documents and tools into a native workspace on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro.

NoteGen is an AI note-taking app for collecting research, meeting material and ideas before organizing them into finished documents. Notes remain ordinary Markdown files, with attachments stored on your device by default.

5ire is a desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with models, ask questions about their documents and use external tools in the same app. It connects to local LLMs through Ollama and to cloud providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and DeepSeek.

Voicebox combines speech creation and dictation for people producing audio or working with AI agents. It's a free, open-source alternative to ElevenLabs and WisprFlow that processes voice data on your own machine.

Anarlog, formerly Hyprnote, is a desktop AI meeting notetaker for people who want to keep sensitive conversations on their own hardware. It's an open-source Granola alternative that combines personal notes with meeting transcripts.

Whispering is a speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate text into other applications and choose where transcription happens. Its desktop app runs within Epicenter, but the project currently lists it at compile status after a storage migration.

OpenDev is an AI coding agent for developers who want concurrent work across a codebase and control over which models handle each task. It can plan changes, execute them and iterate autonomously, with a terminal interface and a browser interface for monitoring work.

Whisper Notes transcribes interviews, lectures and meetings for people who need recordings to stay on their own device. It works without an internet connection or account.