Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

SpeechPulse is a dictation and transcription app for people who want to write by voice or turn recordings into text. Its Whisper speech recognition runs locally, so dictation can work without an internet connection.

Minutes is a meeting notetaker for people who want searchable records of calls, voice memos and everyday dictation on their own computer. You can read the notes in the app or let an AI assistant search the conversations you choose to share.

ResearchNotebookLM is a free, self-hosted alternative to Google NotebookLM for people studying papers, collecting research or working with private documents. It runs through a browser on Windows, macOS or Linux, and can run on your own server. With Ollama, questions and answers stay local and work offline without a cloud account.

LiveAgent is a desktop AI agent for people who want an assistant to work with files and commands on their computer. Local tool execution is separate from model access, which uses Claude, Codex or Gemini protocols, or services compatible with those protocols through a custom API address.

SolidGPT is an AI search assistant for developers, available as a VS Code extension or a self-hosted server with a browser interface. The application can run on your machine or server, but its AI processing uses OpenAI's cloud API. It needs an API key and an internet connection, so hosting it yourself doesn't make model inference local.

Claude DevTools is a local debugger for developers who want to understand what happened during a Claude Code session. It reads saved logs from terminal and IDE sessions without modifying Claude Code.

Oh My Pi is a terminal coding assistant for developers who want an AI agent working directly in their codebase with IDE tools. It's a fork of Pi that supports both local model servers and cloud providers.

sonible smart:chain is a proprietary AI mixing plug-in for producers and audio engineers who want help processing individual tracks and building a rough mix. It runs in a DAW on macOS or Windows, with native Apple Silicon support. Its processors share an analysis of the audio, so their suggested settings account for the rest of the chain.

MLC LLM is a compiler and deployment engine for developers running language models on their own hardware or building AI into apps. Its shared MLCEngine supports deployment across desktop computers, mobile devices and browsers.

TranslateLocally translates text on your own computer for people who want local machine translation and teams working with their own translation models. It uses Marian and Bergamot, with a desktop interface for everyday text and command-line access for batch work.

sherpa-onnx is a toolkit for developers building speech features that work offline on their own devices. It covers transcription, speech generation and audio analysis, with processing kept local.

Torrix is a self-hosted LLM monitoring tool for teams investigating AI spending and failed requests. It keeps request records in your infrastructure and brings usage analytics and individual traces into one dashboard.

Pi Desktop is a desktop workspace for developers who want AI coding agents independent of their editor or terminal. It keeps projects and agent sessions together, with tools to review changes and inspect ongoing work.

Atlas is a desktop workspace for developers who use coding agents across projects and want to keep the context behind their code changes. It brings agent conversations, code review and project history into one window.

Accentize SpectralBalance is a proprietary dialogue EQ plugin that runs on macOS and Windows, with native Apple Silicon support. It's for dialogue editors, ADR mixers and podcast producers who need speech recorded across different takes or environments to sound consistent.

Ente Photos is a Google Photos alternative for people who want to back up and share their library without letting the storage provider read its contents. You can self-host its server or use Ente's hosted service.

Wake is a desktop app for developers who need to find past coding-agent conversations across tools. It gathers session histories into a library organized by project and agent.

Accentize dxSplit is an AI audio plugin for dialogue editors and post-production mixers who need to clean up speech recordings. It separates dialogue into voice, room reverb and background noise so you can adjust each component independently.

Laya brings work notifications into one feed for people managing email, tickets, pull requests, and team messages. It gathers related context and prepares action cards with drafts you can review before sending.

Haplo AI runs language models on iOS and macOS for people who want to ask questions, write code or examine photos without sending that material to a hosted assistant. After downloading a model, chat works offline without an account.

Hovor is a dictation app for people who want to speak text into their Mac apps and choose between local speech recognition and a cloud service. On supported Apple Silicon Macs, it runs downloaded Parakeet or Whisper models on the device, so on-device transcription happens on your Mac.

claudectl manages multiple Claude Code sessions for developers who need to track parallel work and intervene when an agent gets stuck. Its terminal dashboard brings session activity, approvals and spending into one view.

DL4MicEverywhere lets microscopy researchers train and use deep learning models on their own computers through graphical Jupyter notebooks. It builds on ZeroCostDL4Mic, bringing its bioimage analysis workflows to local machines and remote computing infrastructure. You don't need coding skills to use the notebook interfaces.

MyAgents is a desktop AI agent workspace for people who want help with coding, research and recurring work on their own computers. Agents can use project files, a terminal and an embedded browser while you review their results.

PenEcho is a visual workspace for people working through ideas with handwritten notes, equations and sketches. AI uses the canvas as context and places answers or interactive results beside your work.

DiffRhythm is an AI music generation model for musicians and developers who want to create full-length songs on their own hardware. It uses diffusion to generate songs from lyric and reference-audio inputs.

DVC is a data version control tool for individual data scientists and small machine learning projects. It links datasets and model artifacts to code history so you can recover the inputs behind an experiment and reproduce its results.

OpenTutor is a local AI learning workspace for students who want to study their own course materials with a tutor that adjusts to their progress. It targets individual study rather than shared classroom use.

Stirling PDF is a PDF workspace for editing individual documents and automating larger document workflows. It runs through a browser on your own server, with Docker deployment, or as a desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux.

OpenManus is a Python framework for developers who want to run and extend a general AI agent on their own machine. You give it tasks through a terminal, and it connects a language model to tools that can act on those tasks.

Hiring Agent helps hiring teams rank resume PDFs to decide which applications to review first. HackerRank built it for intern applications, with human reviewers making the hiring decisions.

Kition is a desktop AI workspace for writing, research, and project planning. Its agent works directly with editable project files, so you can inspect proposed changes in the documents and boards they affect.

Liquid Apollo is a local AI playground for people who want to interact with AI without relying on cloud processing. It focuses on low-latency interaction.

HilbertRaum is a local AI workspace for people working with confidential documents, research, or personal archives. It lets you use AI without sending your files or conversations to an external service.