Free AI tools that run on Mac
Open-source AI tools that work on macOS, including Apple Silicon (M1–M4) Macs. Chat apps, coding assistants, voice tools and more, free to run on your own machine.
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AI Agents & Automation Tools
See all 1,896 →Self-improving AI agent that learns from experience and adapts to user needs.
Langflow is a powerful tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows.
Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
AI-powered global intelligence dashboard for real-time news and geopolitical monitoring.
Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS
A coding agent for open models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3
AI Coding Assistants
See all 882 →Turn codebases into queryable knowledge graphs for AI-assisted code analysis.
Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
CLI tool for optimizing LLM token usage in development commands.
Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.
A community-driven project for accessing multiple language models via APIs and GUIs.
AI coding assistant with 60+ providers and 31 built-in tools.
AI Chat Apps & Local LLMs
See all 594 →Runs AI assistants on your devices for personal or team use.
Get up and running with Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.
Instant AI chat assistant with GPT-5, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, DeepSeek, and more.
Run and train various AI models and agents locally.
Open-source desktop app for local LLMs. Text, vision, tool-calling, OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API. 100% private.
Runs local AI models for chat and task assistance.
AI Voice & Speech Tools
See all 345 →Speech recognition model for multilingual transcription and translation.
Create and use cloned voices for various tasks locally.
Converts voice samples to text-to-speech models for various languages.
Clone a voice in real-time for generating speech.
Local AI voice studio for voice cloning and speech generation.
Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
AI Developer Tools & SDKs
See all 235 →Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular system for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set of AI prompts that can be used anywhere.
Runs large language models on local hardware using a tiny engine.
An open-source engine that turns continuous content streams into search and monitoring. Durable ingestion, hybrid search, alerts, and plugins for formats, models and business rules.
为 DeepSeek Harness (DSH) 插件生态打造的现代化桌面端解决方案。万物皆「插件」,桌面本身也是「插件」。
Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to elevate your reading experience.
DSHDesktop:DeepSeek Harness Desktop / DeepSeek Harness 桌面版
Computer Vision & OCR Tools
See all 148 →Annotate images with polygons, rectangles, and more for computer vision tasks.
一个简洁优雅的词典翻译 macOS App。开箱即用,支持离线 OCR 识别,支持有道词典,🍎 苹果系统词典,🍎 苹果系统翻译,OpenAI,Gemini,DeepL,Google,Bing,腾讯,百度,阿里,小牛,彩云和火山翻译。A concise and elegant Dictionary and Translator macOS App for looking up words and
识别各种类型的验证码,包括数字字母组合、中文验证码和滑块验证码。
轻量级中文 OCR 项目,支持文本检测与识别。
Content aware image resize library
Unified cross-platform desktop app for annotating text, images, videos, and point clouds.
LLM Inference & Serving Tools
See all 127 →🦍 The API and AI Gateway
Runs large language models on low VRAM GPUs.
Automatically recommends LLM models based on hardware capabilities.
Run LLMs and speech-to-text models with a single-file executable.
Compile and deploy large language models on various platforms.
A fast, in-process vector database for similarity search.
RAG & AI Search Tools
See all 115 →Complete API layer for private AI applications on local models: RAG, skills, tools, MCP, text-to-sql, and more. Works with any OpenAI-compatible inference server.
🌐 The Internet Computer! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable.
LocalGPT privately indexes and queries documents with AI.
Your own search engine
Search your computer by what's in your files: photos, PDFs, documents, recordings, videos and code. On-device on Mac, Windows and Linux, built on Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2.
A personal librarian agent for organizing files and answering questions.
AI Image Generators & Editors
See all 89 →A web UI for generating and editing images using Stable Diffusion.
The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface. The fastest local inference engine in the world.
PhotoCraft: An open-source, photo editor written by scratch in pure Rust
Generate and refine images using Stable Diffusion models.
AI image generation and inpainting for Krita.
A free and open source instant messaging and VoIP chat app built for friends, groups, and communities.
AI Productivity Apps
See all 68 →AI-powered collaborative workspace for project management and note-taking.
Turn any website into a lightweight desktop app with one command, on macOS, Windows and Linux.
AI-powered translation and text polishing tool for multiple languages.
Streaming music player that finds free music for you
Build realtime web, mobile and desktop apps in Python only. No frontend experience required.
AI assistant for managing email inbox and calendar.
AI Video Generators & Editors
See all 59 →自动完成短视频创作,从文案到视频合成。
开源AI工具,用于短剧、漫剧和短视频创作。
AI-powered macOS video editor with built-in generation and MCP support.
The truly free, open-source, local-first, cross-platform CapCut replacement. Scriptable through a JSON-RPC API & MCP.
自动化影视解说和视频剪辑工具,基于大语言模型。
一键将长视频剪辑成短视频并生成字幕和发布文案。
LLM Training & Fine-Tuning Tools
See all 47 →Converts various document formats into structured data for AI processing.
AI-powered photo and video organization and search.
Translate scientific PDF documents while preserving layout and formulas.
Detects file types using a deep learning model.
A fast, open-source PDF parser for high-quality text extraction.
Quantizes PyTorch models for reduced memory usage in training and inference.
AI Tools
See all 1 →A fancy terminal browser for the Gemini protocol.
FAQ
Which free AI tools that run on Mac?
We list 4,606 open-source AI tools in this group. The most popular are openclaw, hermes-agent, ollama, stable-diffusion-webui.
Are these tools really free?
Yes. They're open source and run on your own machine. Check each project's license before using it in a commercial product; the badge on each tool shows whether commercial use is allowed.
How do I know a tool fits my hardware?
Hardware details come from each project and can be incomplete. Check the project's install guide for exact requirements before you start.