Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

Infinity Embeddings is a self-hosted model server for developers building semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation applications. It runs retrieval models on your own hardware and can serve several models together.

PixlStash is an image manager for photographers culling shoots, creators reviewing AI images and people preparing datasets. It helps you find relevant pictures and review which ones to keep in large collections.

llamafile packages a language model and its runtime in a single executable for people who want to run models locally or share a ready-to-run model with others. Recipients don't need to install a separate runtime.

SimpleTuner is a diffusion model training toolkit for creators and researchers adapting image, video or audio models to their own datasets. Its web dashboard also supports teams sharing GPU workers.

projectmem gives AI coding assistants a persistent record of a project's debugging history and architectural decisions. It's for developers who want agents to carry useful context between sessions and check past failures before repeating them.

Zed is a desktop code editor for developers who want coding assistance from models running on their own machine or infrastructure they control. Its Agent and Inline Assistant can use Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio or a local OpenAI-compatible server. The editor connects to these model servers, which perform inference.

llmware is a Python framework for developers building applications that answer questions using their own documents or carry out multi-step AI agent workflows. It focuses on small, specialized models that can run on laptops, edge devices, and self-hosted servers.

Cezar manages AI coding agents on your computer or your own server. It's for developers coordinating work across repositories who want to review tasks, agent activity and code changes in one browser interface.

YouDub-webui is a self-hosted video translation and dubbing app for creators and small teams making videos available in another language. Its most established workflow is English-to-Chinese dubbing for YouTube; it also supports Chinese-to-English dubbing for Bilibili.

KanDev is a self-hosted workspace for developers managing AI coding tasks and reviewing the resulting changes. It organizes work on kanban boards and lets you define workflows with your own agent choices and review gates.

Vexa is a meeting bot and transcription API for developers adding meeting features to products and teams connecting calls to AI agents. Its bots join Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom to capture the conversation.

Lexora is a personal desktop AI agent for research, creative projects and everyday planning as well as coding. It works toward a goal while you give direction and review its work.

Parakeety is a paid Mac dictation app for people who want to speak into the app they're already using without sending their voice to a cloud service. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 or later and places the transcript at the cursor. Intel Macs aren't supported.

bitsandbytes is a Python library for developers who need to run or fine-tune large language models on their own hardware with less memory. It works within PyTorch workflows.

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.

WhisperJAV generates subtitles for Japanese adult videos on your own computer. It targets difficult audio with quiet dialogue, loud vocalisations and long stretches that can cause speech recognition models to invent or repeat words.

Keras is an open-source Python deep learning framework for developers and researchers who want to build and train models without tying their code to one backend. It runs locally on Linux and macOS, with WSL2 recommended for Windows. Its Apache 2.0 license permits commercial use and modification.

Netron visualizes neural network and machine learning models for developers and researchers who want to examine their structure.

Cloud CLI is a browser interface for developers who want to work with coding agents and manage projects from a computer or phone. It connects to Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor CLI and Codex, so you can access agent sessions beyond the terminal.

USearch is a vector similarity search library for developers building semantic search and recommendation systems within their own apps or servers. Its compact C++ core supports custom similarity rules and has no mandatory dependencies.

DB-GPT is a self-hosted AI data assistant for teams analyzing business data and developers building data applications. It connects plain-language questions to database queries and code-based analysis.

OpenWhispr is a dictation and meeting transcription app for people who want to write by voice and keep searchable records of conversations. It lets you choose local processing or cloud providers.

AutoRAG Agent searches documents and connected archives where they already live, then reads the relevant sources to produce answers with file, page or line references. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux and suits people researching information spread across local files, messages and notes.

LightEval is a Python toolkit from Hugging Face for developers and researchers comparing LLMs or investigating where their responses fail. It evaluates models already loaded in memory as well as models accessed through a service.

PYTHIA monitors world events and generates forecasts for people tracking global risks and developers building AI agents that need current-world context. It combines Osiris's globe and live feeds with MiroFish's forecasting approach and local Ollama models.

iZotope Nectar is a proprietary collection of vocal processing plugins for producers, audio engineers, musicians, and creators working with singing or dialogue. Its Vocal Assistant recommends a starting point for a mix that you can adjust to suit the recording. The assistant sets EQ, reduces sibilance, and creates space for the voice within the mix.

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.

AgentRQ lets people assign work to AI agents, follow their progress and answer requests for decisions from a browser, phone or desktop app. Agents run on computers you own; the task dashboard can run on your server or the hosted service.

Excel AI Assistant is an MIT-licensed add-in for people who want AI to make changes directly in their spreadsheets. It runs on your machine alongside Excel for Mac, Windows or the web, and uses plain-language requests to edit the open workbook.

XTTS v2 generates speech from text on your own hardware, using a voice recording as a reference. It's for developers adding speech to applications and researchers adapting a speech model to their own data.

Roboflow Inference runs computer vision models on images and camera feeds for teams building inspection, monitoring and image analysis systems. You can host it on your own computer, server or edge device.

Ringer coordinates parallel AI coding agents on your machine. It's for developers who want to divide implementation work among workers and judge the results with executable checks.

Lethe is a local document de-identification app for people who work with confidential contracts, client records or deal documents and want to use AI without sharing the names involved. It replaces names with consistent placeholders, then restores them in AI-generated replies, including summaries and translations.

gpt-oss is a pair of OpenAI reasoning models for developers who want to run a local LLM or serve models on their own hardware. The smaller model targets local and specialized applications; the larger one targets general-purpose tasks that need more reasoning.