Local AI Apps and Tools for Mac

Ultimate Vocal Remover is a desktop app for separating vocals and other stems from audio files on your own computer. It's for people making karaoke backing tracks, isolating a vocal, or working with separate parts of a song. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and its MIT license allows you to use and modify the software.

Steel is a browser API for developers building AI agents that interact with websites. It runs Chrome sessions locally or on a self-hosted server through Docker, so you can keep browser infrastructure on hardware you control. The code uses the Apache 2.0 license. Steel also offers a hosted service where browser sessions run in its cloud.

OCRmyPDF turns scanned PDFs into documents you can search and copy text from while preserving the resolution of their original images. It's a local command-line tool for people digitizing paper records and developers building document processing systems. Your documents stay on your machine.

Infinity Embeddings is a self-hosted server for developers building semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation applications. It runs embedding and reranking models on your own hardware, with support for image and audio search alongside text. It's open source under MIT.

Upscayl enlarges low-resolution photos and graphics with AI. Its free, open source desktop app runs locally on Linux, macOS, and Windows, making it an option for people who want to improve images on their own computer. It needs a Vulkan-compatible GPU and is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

OpenHands is a coding agent platform for developers and teams that want agents to make changes across a codebase and handle recurring engineering work. You can run it on your own computer or self-host it on a server. Its core is open source under the MIT license, and a separate OpenHands Cloud service offers hosted execution.

Docker Model Runner lets developers run and serve AI models on their own computer or server using Docker Desktop, Docker Engine or the standalone dmr binary. It pulls models from Docker Hub, OCI registries, and Hugging Face, then stores them locally. Inference runs locally too.

Krita AI Diffusion brings image generation into Krita for artists who want to paint and edit in the same workspace. The open source plugin is licensed under GNU GPL v3.0 and can run generation for free on your own hardware through ComfyUI. Interstice.cloud offers a separate online generation service for people without a suitable GPU.

gpt-oss is a pair of OpenAI reasoning models for developers who want to run a local LLM or host one on their own server. The models are open weight and licensed under Apache 2.0. OpenAI also has a hosted browser demo, separate from running the models on your hardware.

IntraPaint is a desktop image editor for artists who want to paint by hand and use AI to refine the same image. It brings prompt-based edits into a layered painting workspace, so you can adjust a sketch or a selected area without moving files between applications. It's open source under GPL-3.0.

Interpreter reads Japanese text from game windows and displays English translations over your screen. It's built for people playing Japanese retro games, with MeikiOCR tuned for game text and pixel fonts. The default OCR and Sugoi V4 translation models run locally, so text stays on your computer and no internet connection is needed after setup. It's open source under the MIT license, with support for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Liquid Apollo is an AI chat app for iPhone and iPad. Liquid LEAP runs smaller language models directly on your device, so local conversations do not depend on a cloud service. The app also runs on compatible Apple Silicon Macs.

OPUS-CAT runs neural machine translation locally on Windows for professional translators who work in computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools. Its offline engine keeps translation processing on the user's computer, so translators can use machine translation for confidential text without sending it to a cloud translation service.

PixlStash is an open-source image manager for photographers, AI creators and people curating image datasets. It combines library search with tools for reviewing tags, ranking images and sending selected work through ComfyUI. You can use a desktop app or a self-hosted server with a browser interface.

Vyact is an open source desktop workspace for people who want to use a local LLM with their documents, email and code. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs, Windows and Linux x64 under the AGPL-3.0 license. Intel Macs aren't supported.

Eclaire is a self-hosted AI assistant for notes, documents, photos, bookmarks and tasks. You can ask questions about saved material, inspect the sources behind an answer and ask the assistant to create notes or update tasks. Scheduled automations handle recurring requests such as a weekly task summary.

ast-grep MCP is a locally run server that lets AI coding assistants search code by its syntax structure. It connects ast-grep to Cursor, Claude Desktop and other clients that support the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It's for developers who need an assistant to find specific code constructs when matching words alone is too broad.

PocketPaw is a self-hosted AI agent for people who want a personal assistant that can work with files, write code and use a browser on their own computer or server. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a web dashboard and access through messaging apps. It is open source under the MIT license.

Code Buddy is an AI coding assistant for developers who want a terminal agent running on their own machine, with a choice of local or cloud models. It reads repositories, edits code and runs commands on Linux, macOS and Windows. Ollama keeps model inference local without an API key or account; cloud providers send model requests off the machine. Routing includes automatic provider failover.