Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

wigolo gives AI agents web access from a server on your own machine. It's for developers who want coding assistants or self-hosted agents to gather web evidence and reuse what they've already fetched.

PowerInfer is a local LLM inference engine for developers and researchers running large models on a PC with a consumer GPU. Its performance gains depend on sparse models, which use only part of their network for each input.

NVIDIA NemoClaw is a self-hosted stack for people who want to run AI agents with controls over network access and credentials. It supports OpenClaw, Hermes and LangChain Deep Agents Code inside NVIDIA OpenShell sandboxes.

Fooocus generates images on your computer for people who want to work from prompts without extensive settings adjustments. It uses Stable Diffusion XL and works offline after the required models are downloaded.

Agentlas OS is an open-source AI agent framework for projects that need specialist teams and shared project context. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, with local document indexing, semantic search and memory retrieval. You supply the model. Using a cloud model sends requests to that provider and may incur charges.

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.

LocalAI is a self-hosted AI runtime for developers and teams that want to run models on their own hardware. It brings language, speech, vision and media generation into one server that existing AI applications can connect to.

ProofShot is a local browser verification CLI for developers reviewing UI work produced by AI coding agents. It saves browser interactions and errors as review artifacts so you can inspect what the agent tested.

Real-ESRGAN is a local AI upscaler for people enlarging images or restoring degraded images and video. It builds on ESRGAN, with dedicated models for general images, anime illustrations and animated video.

Reverse Skill gives AI coding agents workflows for reverse engineering, authorized penetration testing and CTF challenges. It's for security researchers who want their agent to select an analysis method and work with the tools available on their machine.

OpenClaw.NET is a self-hosted AI agent runtime for a personal assistant or a shared team gateway. It's an independent .NET implementation inspired by OpenClaw, with compatibility for supported parts of that ecosystem.

PersonalClaw is a self-hosted AI agent for one person who wants chat, ongoing tasks and personal knowledge in one web dashboard. It runs on Linux and macOS, with Docker support that also covers Windows. It's open source under MIT and is currently pre-1.0, with breaking changes expected. A one-time download supplies a tiny CPU model for offline chat without tools. Autonomous tool work needs your own Ollama model or a provider app.

Distributed Llama runs language models across your own networked computers. It's for people who want to share inference work and model memory across several devices instead of fitting the whole workload on one machine.

CLODEx IDE is a desktop AI coding assistant for developers working on changes across multiple sessions. It keeps task history and workspace context across restarts, so you can return to unfinished work without rebuilding the task from chat messages.

Memmy Agent is a local memory hub for people who switch between AI assistants and want earlier decisions and project context available in the next conversation. It stores personal memory on your device by default. Direct agent tasks support your own credentials for a chosen model API. Model processing depends on the configured service or provider.

Krita AI Diffusion adds AI image generation to the painting workspace for artists who want to refine artwork without leaving Krita. It lets you direct changes through selections and visual input.

ChatML is a desktop workspace for developers running several Claude Code tasks at once. It brings agent activity and code changes into one view so you can review work before merging it.

ai-jail is a sandbox for developers who want to limit the damage an AI coding agent can cause through mistaken commands. It targets accidental changes outside a project, and doesn't provide a security boundary against malware or hostile code.

Whisper Mate is a local-first transcription app for people who need text from recordings, calls or audio playing on their Mac. It brings transcription and subtitle work into one editor, with media processing that can stay on the Mac.

SoloMD is a Markdown editor for writers, researchers and developers who want plain text notes with AI assistance. It combines a Typora-style writing interface with tools for searching a note collection and letting agents work on it.

Jean is a desktop and self-hosted workspace for developers running coding agents across multiple projects. Repositories, terminals and git operations run on your computer or server, while the connected agents use your own subscriptions or API access. With Claude Code’s standard cloud connection, prompts and model responses go to its remote provider.

gollama is a terminal app for people managing a local LLM collection in Ollama. Its keyboard-driven interface helps you compare downloaded models and clear out ones you don't need.

Leon is a personal AI assistant for people who want to automate tasks on their own computer or server. Its skills let you add actions suited to your needs.

PEFT is a library for developers adapting pretrained AI models on their own hardware. It trains a small portion of a model's parameters to reduce the compute and storage costs of full fine-tuning.

PhotoPrism is a self-hosted photo and video organizer for people who want to browse, search and share a personal media collection on their own hardware or server.

QuPath is a free, open source desktop application for researchers analyzing whole slide pathology and microscopy images on their own computers. It combines image viewing and annotation with cell segmentation and interactive machine learning, so researchers can examine tissue and classify what they find within the same application. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Topaz Photo is AI photo enhancement software for photographers correcting noise, soft focus and images that need enlarging for print. It suits wildlife, sports and event photography, where movement or poor lighting can leave a useful shot needing repair.

Audapolis is an editor for recordings where spoken words are the main material. Podcast producers, radio editors and people cutting interviews can work with a transcript through an interface similar to a word processor.

Shinkai lets people build AI agents to automate tasks without writing code. Its desktop app can run agents entirely offline with local models, including workflows that handle sensitive data.

Lumina Note is a Markdown note-taking app for people who want AI help with writing and organizing a note collection. Its agent can work across the vault with your permission, while notes remain plain files you can edit and back up outside the app.

LiteRT-LM is Google's open-source framework for developers building apps that run language models on the user's device. It uses LiteRT for local inference across mobile devices, desktops and browsers, with GPU and NPU acceleration. The project uses the Apache 2.0 license.

biniou brings AI chat and media creation into one browser interface on your own computer or server. It's for people who want to work with several kinds of generative AI without switching between separate apps.

Letta is an AI agent platform whose App Server can run locally or on a self-hosted server. It's for people building assistants that retain context between conversations and use that memory in later interactions. Local agents can use Ollama or LM Studio with agent state and the model endpoint on your machine. Cloud model connections use remote providers.

fx is a coding agent for developers who prefer working in a terminal and researchers who want to embed an agent in their own software. Its shell-style interface keeps tool activity alongside the conversation and preserves terminal scrollback.