Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

DeepStack is a self-hosted computer vision API for developers adding image analysis to camera systems, home automation or other applications. It runs prebuilt and custom models on your own hardware and works fully offline. Image processing stays on the device or server where you host it, with no cloud service required.

CodeProject.AI Server gives developers a shared API for AI tasks that run on their own hardware. It's a self-hosted service for adding image analysis, text processing and generation to applications. Processing stays on the machine running the server, without cloud calls or sending data outside your device or network.

OpenAgent is a self-hosted personal AI assistant that combines document search with agents that can act on your behalf. It's for people who want an assistant on their own computer or server, and teams building agents around their documents and workflows. It runs natively on Windows, macOS and Linux as a single executable. It's free and open source under Apache 2.0.

Fooocus is a free, open-source AI image generator for people who want to create images on their own computer without spending much time tuning settings. It uses Stable Diffusion XL and automatically expands prompts with a local GPT-2 engine. Generation works offline once the required models are downloaded, so prompts and images can stay on your machine.

h2oGPT is a self-hosted ChatGPT alternative for people who want to chat with local models and ask questions about their own documents. The project is archived and no longer maintained. It's open source under Apache 2.0, with support for Linux, macOS, Windows and Docker.

Auto-Photoshop-StableDiffusion Plugin brings Stable Diffusion generation into Photoshop for artists who want to use AI alongside their existing editing tools. It connects to AUTOMATIC1111 or ComfyUI, so you can generate images within Photoshop and continue editing and saving them there.

Reor is a local AI note-taking app for people who want to search their own writing, find connections between ideas and ask questions about their notes. The project is archived and no longer maintained. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, and it's open source under AGPL-3.0.

QAnything is a self-hosted knowledge base for people and teams who want to ask questions about their own documents, including collections that mix Chinese and English. It can answer in either language regardless of the document's language, and runs locally through Docker on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Raycast Ollama brings Ollama models into Raycast on macOS and Windows, for people who want AI chat and text assistance within their desktop launcher. It connects to Ollama on your own machine or a remote server you choose. The extension is open source under the MIT license, and local inference doesn't require an Ollama API key.

Lumos is a Chrome extension for asking questions about web pages using models running on your own machine. It's for readers working through long discussions, product reviews, news articles or technical documentation who want summaries and answers tied to the material they're reading. Ollama handles inference locally, without a remote AI server.

OpenedAI Speech is a self-hosted text-to-speech server for developers who want local speech generation in apps built around OpenAI's speech API. The project is archived and no longer maintained. It's open source under AGPL-3.0, and it generates audio on your own hardware without an OpenAI API key.

Riffusion is a Python library for generating music and audio on your own hardware using Stable Diffusion. It's for developers and musicians who want to experiment with text-driven sound generation or build it into an app. The hobby project is no longer actively maintained.

Self-Operating Computer lets a vision-capable AI model control a desktop by reading the screen and choosing mouse and keyboard actions to carry out a goal. It's a Python framework for developers and researchers exploring AI agents that work through application interfaces. The code uses the MIT license.

insanely-fast-whisper is a command-line tool for people who want to transcribe audio on their own hardware, with a focus on processing long recordings quickly. It runs OpenAI's Whisper locally on NVIDIA GPUs or Apple Silicon Macs, including support for Windows with CUDA. The project is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

Comfy Desktop installs and launches ComfyUI on your computer, taking care of the Python environment and dependencies. You can manage several independent ComfyUI instances, each with its own version, custom nodes and settings. It suits people who want to run local image and media workflows without setting up every environment by hand.

Rivet is a desktop visual programming environment for developers building AI agents and applications with complex LLM workflows. Its editor runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, and its TypeScript library executes the resulting graphs inside your own application. The project uses the MIT license.

OpenUI is a self-hosted AI UI builder for developers prototyping web interfaces with models they choose. It turns plain-language descriptions into rendered interfaces, with a live preview and follow-up requests for changes. You can run the app locally through Docker or Python and use it in your browser.

OpenRecall records your screen at regular intervals and makes that history searchable with local AI. It's a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft's Windows Recall and Rewind.ai for people who want to find something they previously saw on their computer. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, with a browser interface served from your own machine.

Kerlig is a paid AI writing assistant for Mac that works with text in the apps you already use. It's aimed at people writing client emails, Slack replies and Jira tickets who want help editing and drafting without moving everything into a browser chat. It runs on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 12 or later.

Devika is a self-hosted AI coding agent for developers who want to give a software task in plain language and have an agent plan the work, research it and write code. Modeled after Cognition AI's Devin, it runs on your own machine with a browser interface and supports local LLMs through Ollama. It's open source under the MIT license.

Writeopia is a writing and note-taking app for people who want AI assistance while keeping their documents on their own computer. It runs on Windows, Linux and macOS, with offline access to locally stored notes and a choice of AI models that run on your device. It's aimed at writers, developers and researchers working on drafts, documentation or personal notes.

Hillnote is a writing and planning workspace for people who want their notes on their own disk, with AI available inside the editor. It runs on Mac, Windows, iOS and Android. The editor, workspace and local AI work offline, and getting started doesn't require an account.

Wingman-AI is a self-hosted AI agent platform for work that needs ongoing context and several agents with different roles. It suits developers and teams handling research, support, or recurring operations alongside coding tasks. A lead agent can delegate work to specialized subagents, each with its own workspace and session history.

Stable Fast 3D turns a single object image into a textured 3D mesh on your own hardware. It's aimed at game and VR developers, designers and people creating product models for e-commerce. Built on TripoSR, it uses a retrained model designed to produce meshes and textures suitable for use in games and other 3D projects.

AudioLDM 2 generates sound effects, music and speech on your own hardware. It's a Python tool for people experimenting with synthetic audio, including sound designers and researchers who want to work with pretrained models. A Gradio browser interface and command-line tools provide access to local generation; a hosted Hugging Face demo is also available.

Llama Coder is an open source VS Code extension for developers who want a self-hosted alternative to GitHub Copilot's code completion. It uses Ollama to run models on your own hardware, either on the computer you're coding on or on a separate machine. The extension has no telemetry or tracking.

DVC connects data and model versions to the code in your Git repository, so you can reproduce a machine learning experiment with the inputs it used. It's a free, open-source tool under Apache 2.0 for individual data scientists and small projects. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux.

DiffRhythm is a local AI music generation model for musicians, developers and researchers who want to create full-length songs on their own hardware. It uses latent diffusion to generate songs with vocals and accompaniment, and can also produce instrumental music. The full model supports songs up to 4 minutes and 45 seconds.

nanoGPT is a Python toolkit for developers and researchers who want to train GPT models on their own hardware or fine-tune existing GPT-2 checkpoints. Its author has deprecated the project and points readers to nanochat. The MIT-licensed code remains available for study and modification.

ColPali is a local AI document retrieval library for developers and researchers building document search or retrieval-augmented generation systems. It searches pages as images, using their text, charts and layout together rather than relying on a separate OCR pipeline. The colpali-engine package is deprecated; its maintainers recommend Sentence Transformers for new projects and production use.

Trilium Notes is a local-first note-taking app for people building a large personal knowledge base. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, or on your own server through Docker, with browser access and a mobile web interface. It's free and open source under AGPL-3.0.

Open-LLM-VTuber is a local AI companion for people who want a character they can talk to, with a Live2D avatar that responds through speech and expressions. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux through web and desktop clients. With local models for speech and language processing, it works fully offline and keeps conversations on your device. Cloud APIs are optional alternatives that send the corresponding processing to external services.

Zonos is an open-source text-to-speech model for people who want to generate speech and clone voices on their own hardware. It can match a speaker from a short reference recording, with controls for delivery and emotion. The code uses the Apache 2.0 license.

Anarlog, formerly Hyprnote, is a desktop AI meeting notetaker for people who want to keep private conversations on their own hardware. It captures audio from your device without adding a bot to the call and stays hidden during screen sharing. The app runs on macOS, Windows and Linux; its community application is open source under the MIT license.

Ollama Grid Search is a desktop app for comparing LLM responses across models, prompts and inference settings. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, and suits developers or anyone choosing a model and prompt combination for a particular task. You can inspect the responses together rather than repeat each test by hand.

Pyramid Flow is an open-source AI video generator for people who want to create clips on their own hardware, and for researchers working on video models. It turns text prompts into video or animates a supplied image with guidance from text. The Python code uses PyTorch and carries MIT. Model licenses are separate: the SD3-derived weights use the Stability AI Community License. Check the chosen checkpoint before deployment.