Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

ChuanhuChatGPT is a self-hosted web interface for people who want to chat with local LLMs and cloud models in one application. It also supports document questions and automated agent tasks.

HitPaw FotorPea is a proprietary AI photo enhancer for Windows and macOS that combines photo restoration with image generation and editing. It's aimed at photographers, online sellers and people repairing family photos who want automatic corrections without extensive retouching experience.

Nativ is a macOS app for people who want AI chat and coding tools to use models running on their own Mac. It combines a chat workspace, model library, and local inference server.

Tolaria is a desktop knowledge base for personal notes, company documentation, and assistant memory. It keeps your material in ordinary Markdown files that other editors and tools can read.

python-audio-separator splits recordings into separate vocal and instrumental tracks on your own hardware. It's a Python package for karaoke creators and developers who want to process audio in scripts or applications.

Hold Speak is a macOS menu bar app for people who want to dictate prompts to AI agents or enter text in other apps. It runs Whisper locally on your GPU through WhisperKit and CoreML, so local transcription works offline and keeps speech on your Mac. Push-to-talk dictation inserts the transcript into the focused text field.

VideoLingo is a video translation app for creators and educators producing bilingual subtitles or dubbed videos. Its self-hosted browser interface brings transcription, translation and subtitle preparation into one workflow, though the selected providers determine which processing stays local.

PenguinHarness builds runnable AI agent applications from plain-language requirements on your computer or server. It's for developers who want agents to handle app creation, evaluation, tuning and deployment.

LiteRT is Google's framework for developers adding machine learning and generative AI to apps that run on users' devices. It succeeds TensorFlow Lite and supports local inference without a server round trip.

Agent Console helps developers and teams monitor Claude Code and Codex sessions through a local dashboard. It reads the agents' transcripts on your machines so you can compare usage and spot sessions that need attention.

Superwhisper turns spoken words into text in the app you're using. It suits people who prefer dictating messages, documents or requests to coding assistants over typing them.

MCP Toolbox for Databases connects coding assistants and AI agents to databases. It's for developers who want assistants to inspect data during development or use defined database actions in applications.

ai-memory keeps project context for developers who switch coding assistants or machines. It preserves unfinished work, failed approaches and open questions so the next session can pick up the task.

Ollama runs open models for people who want local AI applications, model chat or a backend for coding assistants. It provides a command-line interface and an API, with a choice between inference on your hardware and its cloud service.

AgentENV runs isolated environments for AI agents across your own servers. It's for teams building parallel agent workflows or reinforcement learning systems that need many separate sandboxes.

Label Studio is a platform for teams preparing training datasets or reviewing AI outputs. It brings human annotation and evaluation into a browser interface that can run locally or on your own server.

exo is a local LLM runner for people who want to run models too large for a single machine's memory. It joins devices into a cluster and runs inference on your own hardware.

Hillnote is a writing and planning workspace for people who want local files and AI help inside their editor. It keeps your work as plain Markdown on disk, readable by other editors and accessible to AI agents.

chaiNNer is a desktop editor for people who want AI upscaling and repeatable image processing without writing scripts. Its visual workflows combine model processing with ordinary edits, so you can reuse the same chain across a collection of images.

Hermes HUD is a browser dashboard for people who already run the Hermes AI agent and want to inspect its activity and persistent memory. It requires a running agent and reads its local data.

macmon is a local system monitor for people checking how demanding workloads, including local AI, use an Apple Silicon Mac. Its terminal interface shows live hardware readings and a process list without requiring administrator privileges.

Writeopia is a text editor for writers, developers and researchers who want AI assistance with drafts and notes while keeping their work on their own computer.

ColGREP helps developers and coding agents find relevant code even when they don't know the exact words to search for. It runs locally, while NextPlaid, the search engine behind it, can also serve other retrieval applications on a self-hosted server.

Siftly helps people with large Twitter/X bookmark collections find saved posts and organize them by topic. It runs on your own machine, with AI processing handled by the endpoint you choose.

Fluid is a local AI assistant for Mac users who want to ask questions without sending their chats to a hosted model. It runs Meta Llama 3 on your Mac and supports offline conversations.

Dagu turns existing scripts and runbooks into scheduled workflows for operations, data pipelines, and AI automation. You define dependencies and actions in YAML, then inspect runs and retry failures from its built-in Web UI.

Leawo PhotoIns is a proprietary desktop AI photo editor for Windows and macOS that combines photo enhancement, background removal and image enlargement. It's aimed at people who need to correct individual photos or process a batch without editing every image by hand. Each of its main functions supports automatic processing and manual adjustments.

OWL is a Python framework built on CAMEL-AI for developers who want multiple AI agents to work together on tasks. It combines research, file analysis, and actions in a browser or terminal within one task workflow.

Codenotch is a desktop monitor for people who use AI coding assistants and local LLMs. A small display at a screen edge keeps usage readings and session states visible while you work in other apps.

Rivet is a desktop visual AI agent builder for developers working with connected prompts and application logic. Teams can inspect complex LLM workflows as graphs and run those graphs inside their own applications.

Needle is an AI model for developers building device assistants that turn requests into actions. It prioritizes automation over general chat, with smaller model variants for devices that have limited resources.

LocoAgent is an AI agent for automating social media work through logged-in Chrome sessions. It builds on a fork of the Claude Code CLI and runs on your computer, while social activity requires an internet connection and accounts on the relevant platforms.

nvtop is a terminal monitor for people checking GPU activity on local AI machines and compute servers. Its htop-style interface shows multiple GPUs and accelerators, including the processes using them.

Robby chatbot is an open source web app for people who want to ask questions about their documents, analyze tables in plain language, or summarize YouTube videos. You can run the Streamlit app on your own machine on macOS, Linux or Windows. A hosted Streamlit app is also available.