Local AI Apps for Mac and MacBook

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.

WhisperLiveKit is a self-hosted speech-to-text server for meeting transcripts, live captions and apps that need speech recognition as people talk. It processes audio on your own machine or server.

Draw Things creates and edits images on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It's for artists and other creators who want to work offline and keep generation on their own hardware.

OpenDev is an AI coding agent for developers who want concurrent work across a codebase and control over which models handle each task. It can plan changes, execute them and iterate autonomously, with a terminal interface and a browser interface for monitoring work.

TranslateLocally translates text on your own computer for people who want local machine translation and teams working with their own translation models. It uses Marian and Bergamot, with a desktop interface for everyday text and command-line access for batch work.

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.

Luminar Neo is a photo editor for photographers who want automatic adjustments alongside manual control over their images. It combines tools for portraits and outdoor scenes with layers, masks and edits you can revise without altering the original.

Anarlog, formerly Hyprnote, is a desktop AI meeting notetaker for people who want to keep sensitive conversations on their own hardware. It's an open-source Granola alternative that combines personal notes with meeting transcripts.

Haplo AI runs language models on iOS and macOS for people who want to ask questions, write code or examine photos without sending that material to a hosted assistant. After downloading a model, chat works offline without an account.

5ire is a desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with models, ask questions about their documents and use external tools in the same app. It connects to local LLMs through Ollama and to cloud providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and DeepSeek.

Aiko turns recorded meetings, lectures and voice memos into text for people who want to keep their audio on their own device. It processes completed recordings rather than live speech and doesn't identify individual speakers.

NoteGen is an AI note-taking app for collecting research, meeting material and ideas before organizing them into finished documents. Notes remain ordinary Markdown files, with attachments stored on your device by default.

VoiceInk is a local AI dictation app for Mac users who want to speak emails, notes, and prompts into the applications they already use. Speech transcription works offline.

OpenFang runs recurring AI tasks on your own machine and reports their results to a desktop dashboard. It's for people who want research, monitoring or business automation to continue on a schedule without starting each job in chat.

AnythingLLM is an AI assistant for people who want document chat and agents on their own hardware. Its desktop app can work with local models without an account or cloud API key.

Vellium is a desktop AI app for writers and people who want conversations with fictional characters. It combines multi-character roleplay with writing projects and lets you choose the model provider.

Superwhisper turns spoken words into text in the app you're using. It suits people who prefer dictating messages, documents or requests to coding assistants over typing them.

Enconvo is a native Mac AI assistant for people who want help with writing, research and tasks inside their everyday apps. It uses screen and selected-text context so you can ask about what you're working on without moving everything into a separate chat.

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.

LM Studio runs downloaded language models for conversations and tasks on your computer. Its Bionic agent helps people create documents, write software and carry out work using local or frontier open models.

RecurseChat is a Mac app for people who want private AI conversations and answers drawn from their own documents. Local models run without an internet connection or a separate server.

Amical is an AI dictation app for people who want to write emails, messages and coding prompts by speaking. It adjusts the resulting text to the app you're using, reducing the editing needed after transcription.

Ollama runs open models for people who want local AI applications, model chat or a backend for coding assistants. It provides a command-line interface and an API, with a choice between inference on your hardware and its cloud service.

Fluid is a local AI assistant for Mac users who want to ask questions without sending their chats to a hosted model. It runs Meta Llama 3 on your Mac and supports offline conversations.

MacWhisper turns recordings into editable transcripts for people working with interviews, lectures, podcasts and meetings. Local transcription works offline and keeps the audio on your Mac.

AI Notebook is a desktop research notebook for asking questions about your own documents and checking the passages behind the answers. It suits people who want a local NotebookLM alternative with their research and notes in one workspace.

Buzz turns speech into transcripts and subtitles on your computer. It's for people working with recordings or providing live captions who want offline transcription and translation into English.

GPT4All is a local AI chatbot for people who want language models and document conversations on their own computer. Model inference and LocalDocs processing run on the device without a cloud connection.

Whispering is a speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate text into other applications and choose where transcription happens. Its desktop app runs within Epicenter, but the project currently lists it at compile status after a storage migration.

BoltAI is an AI workspace for Mac users who want local models and cloud services in one app for writing, coding and research. It keeps related conversations together and brings chat into other apps through an overlay.

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.

Enclave AI is a local AI assistant for people who want to chat, work with documents or use voice conversations on their Apple devices. Downloaded models handle these tasks offline.

Off Grid AI is a local AI app for people who want chat, document analysis and media tools on their own phone or computer. Downloaded models work offline, and the core app doesn't require an account.

OpenSuperWhisper is a speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate or transcribe saved recordings on an Apple Silicon Mac. It runs Whisper and Parakeet models locally.

Vibe is a desktop app for people who need transcripts or subtitles from recordings without uploading them to a transcription service. It handles audio and video locally, including interviews, meetings and material in different languages.

Jan is a desktop AI chat app for people who want to run models on their own computer while retaining the option to use cloud providers. Local model use works offline; choosing a hosted model sends requests to that provider.