Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

Argmax OSS Swift is a speech AI SDK for developers building iOS and macOS apps that process audio on the user's device. Its separate libraries cover transcription, identifying speakers and generating spoken audio.

Voice-Clone-Studio brings voice cloning and speech production into one browser interface for people making podcasts, audiobooks and dialogue recordings. It combines several engines with tools for preparing samples and training custom voices.

SmartSub helps video creators subtitle recordings and dub them into other languages. You can use its transcription, translation, proofreading, dubbing and export tools separately or combine them for batch processing.

VideoProc Converter AI is a proprietary desktop app for Windows and macOS that combines local AI media enhancement with conversion and compression. It's for creators working with camera footage, people restoring old photos and videos, and anyone preparing large media files for playback or sharing. It processes files on your computer, and batch conversion works offline.

OpenHarness is a Python framework for developers and researchers building AI agents that can act on files, use tools and retain work across sessions. It includes ohmo, a personal agent that handles coding tasks through Feishu, Slack, Telegram or Discord.

Loop.js is an AI agent framework for developers who want repeated attempts at a task with a separate check of the result. You define the goal and completion criteria, and the engine coordinates work until the verifier accepts it or a stopping condition ends the run.

Qwen Code is an AI coding assistant for developers who want an agent to review code, fix bugs and carry out work in a project. You can use it in a terminal, editor, desktop app or browser.

Row-Bot is a local AI assistant for people who want to research, create documents and automate work on their own computer. It combines conversations with memory and agents that can continue working on longer tasks.

Codex iOS Assistant connects Codex on your Mac to your iPhone so the assistant can perform phone actions and retrieve phone context. It's for people who want to bring information from their phone into their work with Codex.

OCRmyPDF makes scanned PDFs searchable and lets readers copy recognized text from them. It's a command-line tool for people digitizing paper records and developers adding OCR to document workflows.

Instrukt is a terminal app for developers who want to build and test AI agents on their own machine or server. It can index local code and documents, but its chat models run through OpenAI's API, which requires an API key and internet access. It doesn't provide local chat inference.

Project Orchestrator coordinates AI coding agents for developers working across tasks or related repositories. It gives agents a shared record of code, plans and decisions so each task can draw on earlier work.

AI File Sorter helps people clear crowded Downloads folders, photo collections and stored archives. It proposes folders and filenames for you to review before it moves or renames files.

Marbor is a self-hosted AI inference gateway for operators serving models across their own GPU fleet. It places requests using live hardware and model state to reduce cold loads and avoid deployments that can't serve the requested model.

Cellpose is local AI software for biologists and microscopy researchers who need to identify individual cells and nuclei in images. It runs on Windows, Linux and macOS, with a graphical interface for automatic segmentation, manual annotation and correcting model results.

XERJ is a local search engine for developers building AI agents that need to retrieve code, documents or stored knowledge without reading whole files into their context. It runs on a laptop or self-hosted server.

BAML is a programming language for developers building AI agents, with a documented Ollama client for models running locally and tracing that runs on your machine. The OllamaClient integration is documented for the canary toolchain. The standard OpenAI connection sends model requests to OpenAI; installing BAML locally does not make that connection offline.

AIPOCH Open-Science is a desktop AI research workbench for scientists who want to keep investigations, analysis and supporting evidence in one project. Its agents work with research files and executable tools to produce outputs you can inspect alongside the records behind them.

ArtifactFS makes large Git repositories available as local working directories before all their file contents download. It's for developers building AI agent environments, sandboxes and CI jobs where a full clone would delay work.

BoBe is an open-source desktop assistant that offers help based on what you're working on. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later. Optional periodic screen captures give a vision model context about your work, while a floating overlay lets you chat with the assistant and review its suggestions.

h5i gives AI agents tools to investigate vulnerabilities in web applications you own or are authorized to test. Teams can review the evidence behind findings and turn confirmed attack flows into security regression checks.

Locally AI is a native assistant for people who want to use language and vision models on their own Apple devices. It handles text, images and spoken conversations without sending AI processing to a cloud service.

Kibitz helps developers follow several Claude Code or Codex sessions and direct work from one place. It turns agent activity into readable commentary, reducing the need to switch between terminal tabs to see what each session is doing.

Sim is an AI agent workspace for teams building automations and managing their use across an organization. It brings workflow creation, shared data and run monitoring into one place. You can self-host the workspace, but chat uses a Sim-managed service and requires sign-in to obtain a Chat API key.

FluidVoice turns speech into text in Mac apps, including email, documents, chat, terminals and code editors. It suits people who want local dictation with optional editing before text reaches the active app.

Note Companion is an AI plugin for Obsidian users who need to sort collected notes and turn recordings into searchable material. It suits researchers, students and people with a backlog of meeting notes.

pyVideoTrans translates spoken video into another language for people preparing subtitles and dubbed versions. It works from the audio, so footage doesn't need existing subtitles.

TypeWhisper is a macOS dictation and transcription app for people who want to turn speech into text across their apps. Local speech models keep audio on your Mac; optional cloud transcription sends it to the selected provider.

Cleanlab is a Python library for data scientists and ML engineers checking training data for errors. It uses model predictions or feature embeddings to identify problems in text, image, audio and tabular datasets.

Director's Console is a self-hosted workspace for filmmakers and AI artists who want to develop shot prompts, generate media through ComfyUI, and organize the results by project.

Engram keeps project knowledge between coding sessions so developers don't have to repeat past decisions, bug fixes, and conventions to their AI agent. It works with existing coding assistants through MCP.

Cherry Studio is a desktop AI chat app for people who use several model providers and want one place to manage their conversations. It supports local model connections as well as cloud services.

Waves Curves AQ is an automatic equalizer plugin for people mixing audio who want a starting point based on their recording. It analyzes the audio and generates five distinct EQ profiles, giving you several tonal alternatives to consider.

Agent Flow helps developers inspect how Claude Code and Codex carry out tasks. It turns local agent activity into a visual record for tracing failures, repeated work and slow tool calls.