Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

Surya is a local OCR toolkit for developers who need text and page structure from document images. It handles multilingual documents and preserves reading order for use in document-processing applications.

Whisper Desktop turns audio and video recordings into transcripts and subtitles on your computer. It's for people working with interviews, lectures, podcasts or videos who want a desktop interface for transcription and captioning.

LunarGate is a self-hosted AI gateway for teams whose apps use multiple model providers. It gives those apps one OpenAI-compatible endpoint and keeps routing, retries and fallback rules in your infrastructure. The gateway is open source under the MIT license and runs on macOS and Linux, with a container image also available.

Voice-Pro is a locally run speech processing and dubbing app for creators working with recordings or multilingual video. Its Gradio browser interface brings audio preparation, transcription and speech generation into one workspace. Internet access is required.

Hindsight is a memory system for developers whose AI agents need to carry facts and experience across sessions. It combines stored memories into observations and maintains answers to recurring questions as more information arrives.

CodeFox CLI reviews code changes for developers and teams who want feedback in the terminal or automated pull request checks. It considers the surrounding project code when assessing a git diff.

GLaDOS is a local AI voice assistant for people who want a conversational companion modeled on the personality core from Valve's Portal games. It combines a custom voice and dry humor with awareness of its surroundings.

OpenHuman is a personal AI assistant for people who want agents to act across their work apps and carry out repeatable tasks. Its orchestration engine manages multiple agents and workflows in one place.

Mosec is a self-hosted model serving framework for developers turning trained machine learning models into APIs. It runs on Linux and macOS, on your own hardware or cloud servers, and is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Its main focus is handling concurrent requests while making better use of CPU and GPU resources.

Dyad is a desktop AI app builder for people who want to create web apps from written descriptions while keeping access to the code. It keeps project files on your machine and can work offline when you use local models.

Wan2GP generates media on your own computer for creators who want to work with several AI models in one browser interface. It builds on Wan-Video/Wan2.1 and focuses on making generation accessible on GPUs with limited memory.

Magenta RealTime is a local AI music model and synthesis engine for musicians playing AI instruments and developers building interactive music apps. It generates a continuous audio stream on supported Apple Silicon Macs.

Anti Slop is a set of skills for developers who want AI coding agents to avoid generic interfaces and filler copy. It checks the agent's work while leaving visual direction to you.

Clawlet is a self-hosted personal AI agent for people who want an assistant on their own machine or server. It supports local models and can retrieve past context through optional memory search.

mods is an AI command-line tool for developers and shell users who want to ask questions about command output or pass model responses into pipelines. The project is archived and no longer maintained.

UI-TARS Desktop is a desktop AI agent that operates graphical apps on your computer from natural language requests. It's for people who want to delegate tasks through the interfaces they already use. The app supports fully local processing and also offers remote computer and browser operators; controlling a local computer and choosing a remote operator are separate modes.