Categories
Chat & assistants
Ask, write and think out loud with an AI assistant.
1GrokxAI's Grok assistant for iPhone, iPad and the web, with SuperGrok plans for more usage.View2ChatGPTOpenAI's ChatGPT assistant for Mac, iPhone, iPad and the web; the Mac app also holds Codex since July 2026.View3ClaudeAnthropic's Claude assistant: chat, files, web search and code, as a Mac app, an iPhone and iPad app and on the web.View
Coding agents
Agents and editors that read, write and run code with you.
1Codex CLIOpenAI's open-source coding agent for the terminal: it reads, edits and runs code in your project folder.View2Claude CodeAnthropic's coding agent: it reads your codebase, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, an IDE or the Claude app.View3OpenCodeOpen-source coding agent for the terminal, desktop and IDE that works with 75+ model providers, including local models.View
Run models locally
Download open models and run them on your own Mac.
1OllamaRun open models with one command or in its Mac app; its local API on port 11434 is what many other apps expect.View2llama.cppThe C/C++ engine behind much of local AI: runs GGUF models with Metal on Apple silicon, with a web chat and local API server.View3LM StudioA Mac app to find, download and chat with open models, running MLX and GGUF builds, with a local OpenAI-style server.View
Open models
Open-weight models, with what each needs to run on a Mac.
1Gemma 4 31BGoogle's largest dense Gemma 4 model: text and image input, a 256K-token context and over 140 languages.View2gpt-oss-20bOpenAI's smaller open-weight reasoning model: 21B parameters with 3.6B active, with adjustable reasoning effort.View3Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta's 8B multilingual chat model with a 128K-token context; small enough for an 8 GB Mac at 4 bits.View
Image & video
Make, edit and upscale pictures and video with AI.
1Adobe FireflyAdobe's generative AI for images, video and audio, in the browser and in an iPhone app, with a free plan and paid credits.View2UpscaylFree, open-source app that enlarges images with AI upscaling models on your own Mac.View3Kling AIVideo and image generation with Kling's own models, in the browser and in an iPhone app.View
Voice & audio
Dictation, transcription, voices and music.
1SunoMakes full songs, with vocals and lyrics, from a text prompt, in the browser and in an iPhone app.View2Wispr FlowVoice dictation for any app on Mac and iPhone; speech is transcribed and edited on Wispr's servers.View3whisper.cppOpen-source C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition that runs on the Mac's GPU through Metal.View
Productivity & writing
Notes, meetings, mail and writing with AI built in.
1GranolaAI notepad for meetings that listens to your computer's audio, with no meeting bot, and writes up your notes.View2NotionWorkspace for notes, docs and databases with Notion AI, which answers with citations and runs agents for multi-step work.View3CraftNative notes and documents app for Mac, iPhone and iPad with built-in AI and semantic search.View
Research & search
Search, read papers and get answers with sources.
1Gemini NotebookGoogle's research notebook, called NotebookLM until July 2026: answers grounded in your own sources, plus audio overviews.View2DiaWeb browser from The Browser Company with an assistant that reads across your tabs and tools and writes a morning brief.View3Kagi AssistantChat with models from several AI companies, grounded in Kagi Search, included in Kagi's paid search plans.View
Agents & automation
Agents that use tools, browsers and your apps, and the MCP servers they plug into.
1DeepSeek HarnessDeepSeek's open-source agent app where everything is a plugin: everyday work, coding, research and background tasks.View2Browser UseOpen-source browser agent: an AI that navigates websites, fills forms and completes tasks in a real browser.View3Filesystem MCP ServerOfficial reference MCP server that lets an AI app read, write, move and search files in folders you allow.View
Developer tools
Libraries and tools for building with AI on Apple silicon.
1TransformersHugging Face's Python framework of model definitions to load, run and train text, vision, audio and multimodal models.View2uvA fast Python package and project manager written in Rust; installs Python, tools like mlx-lm and their dependencies.View3LiteLLMA Python library and self-hosted gateway that calls 100+ model providers, local or cloud, through one OpenAI-format API.View
