Local AI: your data never leaves the machine

10 apps

These apps run the model on your own hardware. No uploads, no waiting for a quota, and they keep working offline. The trade-off is VRAM and disk space; the upside is that your documents, recordings and photos never leave your computer.

01 / Local AI: your data never leaves the machine

Ollama

A tool for running open-source large language models on your own machine. One command pulls and starts supported models such as Llama, Qwen and Gemma, with all inference happening locally so data never leaves the computer. It ships a command-line interface and a REST API for wiring models into your own scripts and apps, which suits offline use and privacy-sensitive work.

Ollama
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Free

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02 / Local AI: your data never leaves the machine

MochiDiffusion

Runs Stable Diffusion natively on the Mac. It uses the Apple Silicon neural engine and Core ML for local inference, generating images from prompts with image-to-image support and swappable models, entirely offline. It suits people who want to try AI image generation while caring about privacy and speed.

MochiDiffusion
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Free

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03 / Local AI: your data never leaves the machine

DiffusionBee

Diffusion Bee is the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac. Comes with a one-click installer. No dependencies or technical knowledge needed. - divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-di...

DiffusionBee
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Free

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04 / Local AI: your data never leaves the machine

Dayflow

The automatic work journal/time tracker. Privately turns your screen into a timeline of what you actually accomplished. Open-source and local-first.

Dayflow
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Free

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05 / Local AI: your data never leaves the machine

TabType

Free, open-source AI autocomplete for macOS — on-device ghost-text suggestions in every app. A private, local Cotypist alternative built with MLX.

TabType
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Free

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06 / Local AI: your data never leaves the machine

Oats

The free, open-source meeting-notes app for your Mac — offline transcription and AI notes, free in the cloud or 100% on-device.

Oats
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Free

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07 / Local AI: your data never leaves the machine

openquack

Voice dictation menu-bar app for macOS. Press a hotkey, speak, transcript appears at the cursor. Whisper runs locally via WhisperKit on Apple Silicon — no audio, text, or telemetry leaves your Mac....

openquack
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Free

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08 / Local AI: your data never leaves the machine

stik

Instant thought capture for macOS. One shortcut, post-it appears, type, close.

stik
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Free

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09 / Local AI: your data never leaves the machine

AI-Novel-Writer

书童 Pagekin(原名 AI 小说作家):开源免费的 AI 长篇小说写作桌面软件,从设定、蓝图到正文、审稿、定稿;支持拆解仿写、续写、改写,可导入写作 Skill(如去 AI 味)。模型需自行配置,作品在本地。Pagekin (formerly AI Novel Writer): free, open-source AI novel writing app for long novels...

AI-Novel-Writer
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Free

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10 / Local AI: your data never leaves the machine

ShengJi

Native local-first macOS speech-to-text, live captions, subtitle editing, offline translation, and on-device Gemma 4 transcript enhancement.

ShengJi
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Free

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