Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

Kokoro-FastAPI generates speech on your own machine or server using Kokoro-82M. It's for developers adding narration to reading apps, audiobooks or voice assistants through an OpenAI-compatible speech API.

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.

CDAF saves reusable text descriptions alongside videos so AI agents don't have to analyze the same footage for every task. It's for developers building video agents and editors that repeatedly search or ask questions about a clip library.

digiKam is a free, open-source photo manager and image editor for photographers managing large collections of photos and videos. It combines library organization with editing and tools for finding images by their content or metadata.

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.

Abogen turns books, documents and subtitle files into narrated audio for readers making audiobooks and creators producing voiceovers. It can generate matching captions or follow timestamps for timed narration.

Langflow is a visual builder for developers creating AI agents and applications that answer questions using connected data. It lets you assemble workflows visually and customize their components in Python.

Agenvoy is a personal AI agent for people who want to automate research, file work, and recurring tasks on their own computer. It runs continuously and retains context between sessions.

Waves Clarity Vx is a proprietary AI audio plugin for removing background noise from recorded voices. It handles both speech and singing, so it's relevant to music producers working on vocal tracks as well as podcast creators and video editors cleaning up dialogue.

funes gives coding agents a searchable memory of past work. It's for developers who want earlier decisions, reasoning and findings to remain available when they start another session or switch agents.

RipX DAW is an AI audio workstation for musicians and remixers who want to change individual sounds within a finished recording. It separates a mix into stems and extracts notes, harmonics and other sound components, letting you work below the level of an entire vocal or instrument track.

Riffado turns recordings from Plaud Note, Note Pro, and NotePin devices into searchable transcripts and summaries. It's for recorder owners who want control over AI processing and storage. Recording sync requires a Plaud account and access to Plaud's cloud, so the full workflow isn't offline.

TrendRadar collects news and trending topics for people tracking public opinion, industry developments, or specific interests. It brings feeds and platform rankings into one place so you can follow relevant stories without checking each site separately.

nanobot is a self-hosted personal AI agent for people who want an assistant that can act on files and continue work across conversations. Its Python framework also suits developers building their own assistant integrations.

docuchat is a local AI document assistant for attorneys, especially solo and small firms working with confidential case files. It answers questions across contracts, pleadings, exhibits and transcripts, then checks cited quotes against the source text. Answers point to the file, page and exact passage; deposition citations include verified line numbers.

Spec Kit gives developers structured processes for working with AI coding agents. It turns requirements, assessments and verification results into project documents you can review alongside the code.

Octop is a self-hosted AI assistant for households and small teams that want personal agents in a shared deployment. Each user can switch between specialists with separate workspaces, model connections and scheduled tasks.

RealtimeTTS is a Python text-to-speech library for developers building voice assistants and other apps that need spoken responses before the full text is ready. It accepts both complete text and incoming LLM output.

Vocaldi is a paid Mac app that combines voice typing with read-aloud for people who prefer speaking to typing or listening to written text. Transcription, dictation cleanup and speech synthesis run on your Mac, so the audio and text you process stay on the device. It requires Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later.

napari Chat Assistant brings local AI into the napari image viewer for researchers, imaging facility staff, and educators working with microscopy and multidimensional datasets. It uses the layers and regions of interest already open in your session to interpret requests and carry out analysis. Image data stays on your workstation.

Atomic is a personal knowledge base for people who want to find connections across their notes and saved reading. It organizes Markdown notes, web clips, and articles into a knowledge graph you can search and explore.

Mochi Diffusion is a native macOS app for people who want to generate images on their own Mac. Generation works fully offline, and the app sends no generation data to the cloud or collects telemetry.

Hollama is an LLM chat interface for people who want to use Ollama or OpenAI servers through a browser. It supports multiple server connections, so you can keep access to different model servers in one app.

Grist is a relational spreadsheet for teams building shared data tools beyond a flat grid. Linked tables, typed columns and custom layouts let users organize records into applications for their own workflows.

usecomputer lets AI agents interact with desktop applications through screenshots, mouse actions and keyboard input. It's for developers who want computer control in agent workflows, including those built around OpenCode or Claude Code.

DeerFlow is a self-hosted AI agent application for research, coding and content creation on your own infrastructure. It supports local models through Ollama and vLLM, including Qwen3, as well as hosted providers. With a cloud provider, model requests leave your server and may incur provider charges.

InsightFace is a face and person analysis toolkit for developers building identity verification, access control and media applications. Its Python tools and recognition server can process data on your own hardware.

Soup is a local LLM fine-tuning tool for developers and teams adapting models to their own datasets. It brings training, evaluation and export into one workflow that runs on your own hardware without requiring a cloud service.

deja-vu helps developers and coding assistants recover fixes, decisions and unfinished work from session history already on disk. It can search conversations recorded before installation and carry relevant context between Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor and opencode.

llama-cpp-python is for developers adding local LLM inference to Python applications or connecting existing API clients to models on their own hardware. It brings llama.cpp into a Python library and a self-hosted server.

Qube is a desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with models and work with private documents on their own hardware. It combines a document library with persistent memory and research tools that provide citations you can inspect.

GROBID turns scientific and technical PDFs into structured TEI XML on your own machine or server. It's for researchers and developers who need article metadata, full text and bibliographical references for search, analysis or document collections. The software is open source under Apache 2.0.

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.

SD.Next is a self-hosted web interface for artists and researchers who want to create and edit AI images and videos on their own hardware. It supports Stable Diffusion and other diffusion models.