Local AI Apps for Mac and MacBook

WhisperLiveKit is a self-hosted speech-to-text server for meeting transcripts, live captions and apps that need speech recognition as people talk. It processes audio on your own machine or server.

MacWhisper turns recordings into editable transcripts for people working with interviews, lectures, podcasts and meetings. Local transcription works offline and keeps the audio on your Mac.

Enchanted is a ChatGPT alternative for people who want an Apple app for chatting with models they host themselves. It requires your own Ollama server, which runs the models on your computer or a server you control.

TranscriptionSuite is a speech-to-text app for people recording lectures, transcribing conversations or dictating documents on their own hardware. Transcription works offline after the app and model downloads, keeping audio and transcripts local.

Off Grid AI is a local AI app for people who want chat, document analysis and media tools on their own phone or computer. Downloaded models work offline, and the core app doesn't require an account.

GenOffice is a Microsoft Office alternative for people who want to edit documents on their own computer and let an AI agent make changes inside the files. It works with native .docx, .xlsx and .pptx files alongside PDF, Markdown and HTML.

Amical is an AI dictation app for people who want to write emails, messages and coding prompts by speaking. It adjusts the resulting text to the app you're using, reducing the editing needed after transcription.

Vibe is a desktop app for people who need transcripts or subtitles from recordings without uploading them to a transcription service. It handles audio and video locally, including interviews, meetings and material in different languages.

RemiAI is a self-hosted AI assistant for people who want chat to work with their files and remember context between conversations. It can act on permitted folders and delegate longer tasks to specialized agents.

Jan is a desktop AI chat app for people who want to run models on their own computer while retaining the option to use cloud providers. Local model use works offline; choosing a hosted model sends requests to that provider.

Nativ is a macOS app for people who want AI chat and coding tools to use models running on their own Mac. It combines a chat workspace, model library, and local inference server.

Superwhisper turns spoken words into text in the app you're using. It suits people who prefer dictating messages, documents or requests to coding assistants over typing them.

Ollama runs open models for people who want local AI applications, model chat or a backend for coding assistants. It provides a command-line interface and an API, with a choice between inference on your hardware and its cloud service.

Fluid is a local AI assistant for Mac users who want to ask questions without sending their chats to a hosted model. It runs Meta Llama 3 on your Mac and supports offline conversations.

Fullmoon is a local LLM chat app for people who want conversations to stay on their Apple devices. It runs models on-device and works fully offline, with chat history saved locally.

OpenFang runs recurring AI tasks on your own machine and reports their results to a desktop dashboard. It's for people who want research, monitoring or business automation to continue on a schedule without starting each job in chat.

Luminar Neo is a photo editor for photographers who want automatic adjustments alongside manual control over their images. It combines tools for portraits and outdoor scenes with layers, masks and edits you can revise without altering the original.

Draw Things creates and edits images on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It's for artists and other creators who want to work offline and keep generation on their own hardware.

OpenSuperWhisper is a speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate or transcribe saved recordings on an Apple Silicon Mac. It runs Whisper and Parakeet models locally.

Handy is a desktop speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate into the apps they already use. It transcribes speech on your computer and inserts the text into the active text field.

Enclave AI is a local AI assistant for people who want to chat, work with documents or use voice conversations on their Apple devices. Downloaded models handle these tasks offline.

Aphelion is a desktop app for people who want character conversations, creative writing and coding help from models running on their own computer. It works offline after the first model download and doesn't require an account.

AnythingLLM is an AI assistant for people who want document chat and agents on their own hardware. Its desktop app can work with local models without an account or cloud API key.

BoltAI is an AI workspace for Mac users who want local models and cloud services in one app for writing, coding and research. It keeps related conversations together and brings chat into other apps through an overlay.

TranslateLocally translates text on your own computer for people who want local machine translation and teams working with their own translation models. It uses Marian and Bergamot, with a desktop interface for everyday text and command-line access for batch work.

Haplo AI runs language models on iOS and macOS for people who want to ask questions, write code or examine photos without sending that material to a hosted assistant. After downloading a model, chat works offline without an account.

Liquid Apollo is a local AI playground for people who want to interact with AI without relying on cloud processing. It focuses on low-latency interaction.

Clawlet is a self-hosted personal AI agent for people who want an assistant on their own machine or server. It supports local models and can retrieve past context through optional memory search.