Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

Claude Command Center helps developers keep track of coding agents working across multiple projects. It finds sessions launched in a terminal as well as through the dashboard, and agents keep running when you close it.

Dory is a native macOS app for developers who want containers, Linux machines and coding agent environments on their own Mac. It provides a local runtime managed through both a graphical app and a CLI.

Voicetypr is a desktop dictation app for people who write emails, code, prompts, or notes throughout the day. It inserts speech as text wherever your cursor sits, including in Slack, Gmail, Cursor, and Notion. Local transcription works offline, with your recordings and transcripts staying on your machine. The source code uses the AGPL-3.0 license; the desktop product is paid.

Next AI Draw.io turns written descriptions and uploaded files into diagrams you can edit on a draw.io canvas. It's for people creating technical diagrams who want AI help with drafting and revisions while keeping control of individual shapes.

MinerU is a local document parser for people preparing files for AI workflows. It handles scanned PDFs, academic papers and other documents containing OCR text, tables, figures or complex layouts.

Stability Matrix is a desktop app for people who want to use several Stable Diffusion interfaces with one model library. It manages local Web UI packages and includes its own interface for generating images.

WhipCode is an open-source coding agent for developers tackling jobs that exceed a single model context window. It lets agents divide the work while you follow their progress and send further instructions.

Moonshine is an on-device AI toolkit for developers building voice agents and spoken interfaces. Voice processing runs on the device without an account or API keys.

Maat Agent is a coding assistant for developers who want testable evidence before accepting AI edits. It runs in a terminal or an Electron desktop app on macOS, Windows and Linux, and checks the actual project files against acceptance criteria set before work begins. Failed checks send their output back to the model for another attempt; if the work still fails, the agent reports failure.

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.

Starcat is a native macOS app for developers who want to find and evaluate repositories they've saved on GitHub. It keeps a local library and lets you choose which repositories enter a private AI knowledge base.

Moshi is a voice AI model and dialogue framework for researchers and developers building spoken applications. It processes speech directly and can listen while it speaks, including information such as emotion and non-verbal cues.

GPTQModel is a Python toolkit for developers compressing LLMs and running them on their own hardware or servers. It combines model preparation, quality evaluation and inference so you can assess compression choices within one workflow.

Dream Textures is a Blender add-on for artists who want to generate image assets and texture 3D scenes without leaving Blender. It runs Stable Diffusion on your machine and uses scene depth to guide texture projection.

Kohya's GUI is a browser interface for training image generation models, aimed at artists and model makers who want to teach a model a style or subject. It builds on Kohya's Stable Diffusion training scripts and also provides a command-line interface.

Steel is a browser API for developers building AI agents that interact with websites. It supplies real Chrome sessions for tasks involving clicks, forms, logins and pages that rely on JavaScript.

Skales is an AI agent for people who want help with files, browsing, email and coding on their own devices. It can keep working on a goal after you close the chat and resume unfinished goals after a restart.

Pi Web is a browser workspace for developers using the pi coding agent. It shares pi's local conversations and configuration, so you can resume the same coding work in either interface.

Agent Pilot is a desktop AI workflow builder for people who want to combine model conversations with tools and code. It runs on Windows, Linux and Intel Macs and is open source under AGPL-3.0. You can chat with one model or build a graph of cooperating agents, with human input included where a task needs it.

Devo is a coding agent for developers who want to choose their model provider and run the agent on their own machine. Its desktop app and terminal interface handle coding and other engineering tasks that require multiple steps.

iZotope Neutron is a proprietary audio mixing suite for producers, musicians and mix engineers who want an assisted starting point and control over individual effects. Its AI-powered Mix Assistant helps shape a mix, while manual controls let you build your own processing chain.

WindsurfAPI, also called DevinAPI, connects coding assistants and other AI clients to models through your own Devin account. The gateway runs on your hardware, but it sends prompts and images to Devin's cloud for inference, so it requires internet access.

Photomator is a paid photo editor for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro that combines manual color controls with machine learning tools. It's for photographers who want to edit RAW files, retouch individual shots, and apply consistent adjustments across a photo collection within Apple's native apps and file system.

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.

AVCLabs PhotoPro AI is a paid desktop AI photo editor for Windows and macOS that uses your computer's hardware for image processing, with GPU acceleration available. It combines restoration and enhancement with text-prompt edits for photographers, product sellers and people repairing old family photos.

QAnything is a local knowledge base for people and teams who want to ask questions about their own documents. It supports offline operation and questions across Chinese and English document collections.

ExtractThinker is a Python library for developers who want to extract structured data from documents using models running locally through Ollama. It also supports OpenAI, Anthropic and Groq. With a cloud provider, extraction sends document content to that service, requires provider credentials and may incur charges.

Trainable Weka Segmentation is a local image segmentation plugin and Java library for Fiji. It's for researchers and image analysts who want to teach a classifier which image regions belong to each class, then apply that model to other images or stacks. It's free and open source under GPL-3.0.

Open Science Desktop brings research agents, notebooks and project files into one workbench for researchers who want to inspect the work behind an AI-generated result. Agents can carry a research topic through literature review, experiments, analysis and manuscript writing.

MFLUX is a Python toolkit for creators and developers who want to generate and edit images on an Apple Silicon Mac. It provides a command-line interface for working with models locally.

agentacct is a local dashboard for developers who want to see what coding agents did across projects and compare their work with resource use. It brings recorded activity and results into task receipts rather than relying on an agent's claim that a job is finished.

PocketPaw is a self-hosted AI agent for people who want an assistant to write code, manage files and act on websites from their own computer or server.

rclip searches folders by what their images contain, without requiring tags or a separate photo library. It's for people who keep image collections on their own computers or servers and want to search them from a terminal.

LivePortrait animates a portrait with facial expressions and head movements taken from a driving video. It's for creators who want to animate still faces or edit portrait videos on their own hardware.