Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

TUUI is a desktop AI chat application and Model Context Protocol (MCP) client for people who want to use model-connected tools in one interface. Developers can also extend it to build their own desktop AI applications.

KaaS is a self-hosted AI knowledge base for personal research and teams preserving knowledge across role changes. It turns notes, documents and transcripts into wiki articles you can read, edit and query.

RAGFlow helps teams build AI agents that answer questions using their own documents. It extracts content from complex files and retrieves supporting material that readers can check.

PDF Editor Offline helps people edit and prepare sensitive documents on their own computer. It works offline without an account, and desktop and source modes process documents on the device without uploads or document telemetry.

NLM Memory collects coding conversations into one searchable store on your machine. It's for developers who switch agents or editors and need earlier reasoning to remain available when decisions change.

Aperty is a desktop AI portrait editor for photographers working on weddings, family sessions and other portrait shoots. It helps apply consistent retouching across a photo set while leaving control over the strength of each adjustment.

bb-browser gives AI agents access to your local Chrome session, including the website accounts you're already signed into. It's for people building agents that need to work with authenticated websites without a separate API integration for each service.

Unstructured is a document processing library for developers preparing files for LLM applications. It turns text documents and images into structured output that applications can work with.

Unsloth is a desktop app for people who want to chat with models, train them on their own data, and create media on their own hardware. Its no-code interface brings these tasks into one workspace.

CodeFuse ChatBot is a self-hosted AI assistant for developers and DevOps teams who want answers grounded in their own code repositories and documentation. It combines repository analysis with agents that can use tools and execute code in a sandbox, covering work across design, coding, testing, deployment and operations.

MemOS gives AI agents persistent memory across conversations and tasks. Developers can use it for assistants that recall preferences, support history or earlier work, with on-device, self-hosted and hosted storage options.

AI Toolkit (ostris) is a training suite for people fine-tuning image and video generation models on their own hardware or rented servers. It provides a browser interface and command-line access to training jobs.

OpenAgent is a personal AI assistant for people and teams who want agents to work with their documents and carry out tasks on their own computer or server.

smart:deess is a proprietary AI audio plugin for producers, mixers and speech editors who need to control harsh consonants and plosives in voice recordings. It runs in a DAW on macOS or Windows and combines detection of individual speech sounds with spectral processing to adjust their tone as well as their level.

AWS MCP Servers connects coding assistants and AI agents to AWS documentation, infrastructure tools, and cloud services. It's for developers who want their assistant to work with AWS resources and service-specific guidance.

Raycast Ollama is a desktop launcher extension for people who want to chat with models and work on text without leaving Raycast. It connects to Ollama running on your machine or a remote server you choose.

Easy Diffusion generates and edits images on your computer through a browser interface. It's for people who want to use Stable Diffusion without assembling its software components themselves.

AIRI is a self-hosted AI companion for people who want to talk with a virtual character and have it participate in games. Inspired by Neuro-sama, it supports real-time voice conversations and is in early development.

TrailSnap is a self-hosted AI photo album for people and families who want to organize their pictures and retrace past trips. It connects photos with places and travel records so you can find a particular memory or review a whole journey.

Stakpak is an open source AI agent for developers and DevOps teams managing production apps on their own machines or servers. It works interactively in a terminal or runs continuously to investigate problems, take corrective action and ask for human help.

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.

Dictus Desktop is a free, open source voice dictation app for macOS, Windows and Linux. It turns speech into text in the app you're typing in, with transcription handled entirely on your computer. It's for people who want to dictate messages, documents or emails without sending their recordings to a cloud service.

AIlice is an open source AI agent that runs on your own machine and handles tasks spanning research, software development and system administration. It's for people who want an assistant that can act on files, browse the web and execute code. Its Interactive Agents Call Tree architecture splits complex requests among agents created for the task, then combines their results.

Kangaroo is a desktop SQL client and database administration tool for developers and database administrators. It brings querying, data editing and schema work into one application, with an AI assistant available in the database workspace.

Utter is a proprietary dictation app for macOS that transcribes speech with local Whisper models. It's for people who want to speak into everyday apps or coding tools while keeping their audio on their own computer. Transcription runs on your Mac, and no audio leaves the device.

MedSAM is an open-source model for medical image segmentation that runs locally, aimed at researchers and developers working with medical scans. It builds on Meta's Segment Anything model and uses bounding boxes to identify the region you want to segment. The project uses the Apache 2.0 license and supports macOS.

File Brain is a desktop search app for people who remember a document's subject but can't recall its name or location. You can describe what you're looking for and search the contents of files on your computer.

Lexicon is a writing assistant and rich-text editor for people who want to proofread and revise drafts on their own computer. Grammar checks work without an AI model, while optional local AI tools help rewrite longer passages and whole documents.

ACE-Step is a local AI music model for musicians and producers who want to generate songs or revise existing audio. It accepts text descriptions and lyrics, with control over the length of the result.

Ralphy runs coding task lists on your machine, coordinating an existing AI coding CLI for developers who want work to continue across multiple tasks. It defaults to Claude Code, whose standard cloud connection sends prompts and model outputs to a remote provider. Repository edits and task tracking happen locally.

iZotope Ozone is a proprietary audio mastering suite for musicians, producers, and audio engineers preparing finished mixes for distribution. It combines mastering modules in one place with an AI-powered Master Assistant that creates a preset tailored to your audio. You can adjust that starting point or build the mastering chain yourself.

ComfyUI is a visual AI workflow editor for creators who want control over generation and editing. Its node canvas lets you connect models and processing steps, inspect their settings and reuse the resulting workflows without writing code.

Hive coordinates AI agents for teams processing batches of leads, tickets, repositories or documents. A persistent lead agent, called a queen, develops a method on one item before assigning parallel workers, with human approval before the group starts.

SnapOtter is a self-hosted application for people and teams who need to edit or convert private files without uploading them to an online processing service. It combines media, document and local AI tools in a browser interface.