Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

Tonfotos organizes family photos and videos for people whose collections span a computer, external drives and a NAS. It helps you find pictures of relatives and keep family history alongside the archive.

SpeakoFlow lets you dictate into other apps and ask an AI assistant for help without leaving your work. It's for people who want voice typing, spoken conversations and meeting notes with processing on their own computer.

Waves Clarity Vx DeReverb is a proprietary neural audio plug-in for reducing room reverberation in recorded speech and singing. It is for music producers, podcast creators and dialogue editors who need to reduce unwanted acoustics while retaining the vocal performance.

Revornix is an AI knowledge workspace for people who collect articles, research papers and recordings and want to ask questions across their library. It connects saved material in a personal knowledge graph and uses those relationships to inform its answers.

Kokoro Clipboard TTS reads selected or copied text aloud on Windows and macOS using Kokoro-82M. It's for people who want to listen to text across desktop apps while keeping it private. Speech generation works offline, and both clipboard text and audio stay on your machine. It doesn't require an account or API key, and it has no telemetry.

opencodex is a local AI gateway for developers who want to choose which models power their coding assistants. It connects Codex, Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Grok Build to alternative providers while keeping each tool's native interface.

audio.cpp runs audio models locally for developers building speech tools and people generating or processing audio on their own hardware. It brings multiple audio tasks into one C++ runtime built on ggml.

LightRAG is a self-hosted framework for developers building AI assistants that answer questions across documents. It connects related facts across files, including material where relationships matter, such as legal and financial records.

Memo AI turns audio and video into transcripts, translated subtitles and notes for people reviewing interviews, meetings or podcasts. Speech recognition works offline, and speaker identification runs locally.

AgentArk is a self-hosted AI agent runtime for people who want a personal assistant that remembers preferences and carries out ongoing work under their control. It runs through Docker on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a browser interface for chat, tasks and action review. It's free and open source under Apache 2.0.

Agent Zero is a self-hosted AI agent framework for people who want an assistant to carry out research, coding, and document work on a computer. You can watch its actions and intervene in the same desktop with your mouse and keyboard.

WhisprStream turns speech into text at your cursor in other Mac apps. It's for people who dictate notes, email, or coding prompts and want speech processing to stay on their own computer.

HanLP is a multilingual natural language processing toolkit for developers and researchers who need structured text analysis. Its native Python API runs models on your own hardware. The separate REST API sends text to a hosted server.

sonible smart:gate is a proprietary audio gate plug-in for people mixing music or cleaning up recorded tracks on macOS and Windows. Its AI processing detects a chosen sound source, such as vocals, electric guitar or piano, rather than relying only on volume to decide when the gate opens. That helps when the sound you want to keep changes level or a competing instrument is louder.

Agent Safehouse is a local macOS sandbox for developers who want coding agents to edit a project while limiting their access to unrelated files. The operating system enforces the restrictions, so they don't depend on the agent following written instructions.

Kitter is a local agent skill manager for developers who work across several projects. It keeps shared skills in one library while letting each project use its own selection, reducing the need to maintain separate copies.

LLMII labels image collections with AI-generated captions and keywords for people who want searchable photos without uploading them to a cloud service. It processes folders on your computer and saves descriptions that other photo tools can read.

py-xiaozhi is a Python AI voice client for people who want to try Xiaozhi conversations on a computer or build voice interaction into hardware projects. It builds on the xiaozhi-esp32 project and lets you use a desktop microphone and speakers without dedicated Xiaozhi hardware.

OSWorld is a benchmark for researchers and developers testing AI agents that use computers. It measures task completion in real desktop environments, including workflows that cross application boundaries.

DeepAudit is an AI code security auditing platform for developers and security researchers who want to investigate vulnerabilities in their projects. It combines automated code review with executable tests to help assess whether suspected flaws are exploitable.

ON1 Resize AI is a paid desktop photo upscaler for photographers preparing large prints, enlarging tight crops or restoring old scans. It also handles AI-generated artwork and combines AI with Genuine Fractals enlargement technology.

Grok Build is a terminal coding assistant whose runtime edits files and executes commands on your computer. The default connection uses xAI’s remote inference service and needs network access and authentication. Browser login, device codes and API keys are supported, and organizations can configure third-party BYOK endpoints.

Murmure turns speech into text on your computer for people dictating notes, documents or code who want to keep recordings off cloud transcription services. It uses NVIDIA Parakeet and works offline without an account.

Shuru gives AI agents a disposable Linux virtual machine on your Mac. It's for developers who want coding assistants to execute code, install packages and use tools in an environment isolated from the host.

Lemonade is a local AI server for people who want to chat with models on their own hardware or use them in apps and agents. It includes a built-in interface for direct use and APIs for connecting other software.

FlyMD is a Markdown editor for people who keep notes, write long documents or publish blogs. It stores documents locally and adds writing assistance and document tools through extensions.

unbagrnd removes image backgrounds locally for people who need cutouts without uploading pictures to a cloud service. It includes an app for individual images and folders, plus a self-hosted API for developers.

Sokuji translates speech for people taking part in meetings across languages. Other participants hear your translated voice as ordinary call audio, so they don't need to install anything.

Terax brings a terminal, code editor and AI coding agents into one desktop workspace. It's for developers who want to work with agents alongside their shell, files and running app.

Agnai is an AI roleplay chat app for people who want conversations with fictional characters, including shared chats with other people. It builds on early work from Galatea-UI by PygmalionAI.

Zeraix is a local AI desktop for people who want models to work with their files and carry out multi-step tasks. It combines chat, project tools, and agents in one workspace.

Transcritório is a desktop app for researchers transcribing interviews and focus groups, with a focus on Brazilian Portuguese. It keeps audio, transcripts and metadata on your computer.

VoxKey is a free, open-source dictation app for people who want to speak into Mac text fields without sending audio to a cloud transcription service. It requires Apple Silicon and macOS 26 or later. Speech recognition runs locally and works offline after you download a model.

OpenResearch is an MIT-licensed, open-source workspace for people using AI coding agents to conduct research. It gives each research direction a separate agent session and isolated Git worktree, so experiments can proceed in parallel without sharing the same working files. Desktop builds support macOS and Linux; the Windows beta requires Git for Windows. A local browser dashboard is also available.