Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

Codex Router runs on your computer and connects the Codex App and CLI to external model providers or your own self-hosted endpoints. It's for developers who want a different model within their existing coding workflow. Cloud routes send model requests to remote services and need internet access; paid providers still charge for access or usage.

AudioToText turns recordings into text and captions for people who need transcripts or subtitles in different languages. It can process audio on your computer with Whisper or use cloud processing.

Alfred Black is a self-hosted AI agent for people who need help tracking messages, tasks and ongoing commitments. It runs continuously and brings related information together so you can review a concern without piecing together scattered threads.

WhisperWriter turns microphone speech into typed text in your active window. It's for people who want dictation in their desktop apps, with a choice of transcription on their own computer or through an API.

picoLLM is an on-device LLM inference SDK for developers adding text generation to their apps. Inference works offline, but a Picovoice account and AccessKey are required, and key validation needs an internet connection.

Claude Code Router is a local gateway for developers using coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode. It keeps provider selection and request routing in one app, while the selected cloud provider processes model requests remotely. Those requests leave your machine.

Vidurai is a local AI memory service for developers who want their AI assistant to understand recent work without repeatedly explaining it. It tracks file changes, terminal activity and errors, then prepares a focused summary for an assistant. The background service and its stored development history stay on your machine.

SillyTavern is a locally installed interface for AI hobbyists who want control over prompts and access to text, image and voice models in one place. It's an independently developed fork of TavernAI and connects to a separate model backend or API provider.

PicApport is a self-hosted photo server for families and businesses that want to organize and search a shared media archive on their own hardware. Its browser gallery handles photos, videos and PDFs, with plugins for camera RAW files and other formats.

Hippo Memory gives coding agents persistent memory across projects, sessions and tool changes. It's for developers who want agents to retain useful lessons and stop recalling facts that have proved wrong.

Trilium Notes is a note-taking app for people building large personal knowledge bases. Its tree structure lets one note appear in multiple branches, so you can organize related material without keeping separate copies.

AnythingLLM is an AI assistant for people who want document chat and agents on their own hardware. Its desktop app can work with local models without an account or cloud API key.

Noi is an AI browser for people who work across AI chats and want to keep separate tasks organized. It combines multiple workspaces with reusable prompts and access to local tools.

Izwi is a local voice AI app and runtime for people and teams processing speech on their own hardware or inside infrastructure they control. It brings audio tools and voice conversations into a desktop app, browser interface, CLI and inference server.

Hope Agent is a desktop AI assistant that can also run without a desktop interface on a NAS or cloud server. It's for people who want ongoing project work, memory and task state to carry across sessions and devices. It supports local model setup. Data stays on the hosting machine by default, while requests to remote models go directly to the selected provider.

OpenScribe is an AI medical scribe for clinicians who want to turn recorded patient encounters into structured draft notes. Its desktop workflow builds on StenoAI and keeps transcription and note generation local. It's not HIPAA compliant, and every generated note requires clinical review.

Excire Foto is a desktop photo and video manager for enthusiast and professional photographers sorting through shoots or searching large archives. Its AI analyzes photos on your computer without uploading them for analysis.

VoxCPM is a local text-to-speech system for developers and audio creators who want to generate speech with voices they can design or clone. It supports multilingual narration and control over how a voice delivers the text.

Witsy is a desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with models, work with documents and write across applications. You can choose local models or cloud providers, with feature availability depending on the backend.

PDFMathTranslate translates scientific papers for readers who need the text in another language while keeping equations and figures in context. It produces translated and bilingual PDFs so readers can compare the result with the original.

Braina combines AI chat, dictation and computer control for people who want to work through spoken or typed commands. It can run language models on your own computer and help with writing, document research and repetitive desktop tasks.

RTK filters command output before an AI coding assistant reads it. It's for developers whose agents spend too much context on build logs, passing tests and repetitive terminal output.

Sillage is a self-hosted web interface for developers who want to control Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode from a computer or phone. It runs the native agent CLIs on your machine with their own tools and permission flows. Agents use your existing subscriptions and API credentials; hosting the interface doesn't replace their model providers.

Pi is a terminal coding agent for developers who want an assistant they can adapt to their projects. Its small core supports custom workflows through extensions and shareable packages.

Postgres MCP Pro gives AI assistants access to PostgreSQL databases and tools for investigating performance problems. It's for developers and database maintainers who want an assistant to work with actual schema details and query plans.

Meetily records calls and turns them into live transcripts and meeting summaries. It's for people who want to keep meeting recordings on their own computer without adding a recording bot to the call.

QOwnNotes is a desktop notepad and todo manager for people who want to keep their notes in ordinary Markdown files on their own computer. It can use existing text files directly, so your notes remain accessible outside the app.

ReadAny is an AI e-book reader for people who want to question a book, find an idea they remember imperfectly and keep notes alongside their reading. It combines a personal library with answers tied to book passages.

FiftyOne is a local tool for computer vision teams that need to inspect their training data and understand where their models fail. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, with Docker support, and is open source under Apache 2.0. Its Python tools and visual App connect dataset curation with model evaluation.

Brave Leo is an AI assistant inside the Brave browser for people who want help with what they're reading. Bring Your Own Model support lets you use a local LLM or a remote model for browser conversations.

MacParakeet is a speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate across Mac apps, transcribe recordings and capture meetings while keeping speech recognition on their own hardware.

Liza coordinates AI coding agents for developers who want to delegate software work while keeping control over goals and constraints. It supports human-led pairing and multi-agent delivery runs that can proceed unattended.

ON1 Photo RAW is a desktop photo editor for photographers who want to manage and edit RAW photos in one application. It combines a photo browser with retouching and layered editing, covering work you might otherwise split between Lightroom and Photoshop.

BoltAI is an AI workspace for Mac users who want local models and cloud services in one app for writing, coding and research. It keeps related conversations together and brings chat into other apps through an overlay.