Local speech-to-text for macOS on-device AI, fully private, optional cloud
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A text-to-speech (TTS), speech-to-text (STT) and speech-to-speech (STS) library built on Apple's MLX framework, providing efficient speech analysis on Apple Silicon.
The free, open-source meeting-notes app for your Mac — offline transcription and AI notes, free in the cloud or 100% on-device.
Native Codex account switcher by Zhao Liu (liuzhao1225) for macOS and Windows. Local accounts, weekly/5h usage, confirmed Desktop switching.
Free, open-source Mac fan control for the menu bar. Monitor temperatures, set fan curves — Apple Silicon & Intel.
Open-source, offline voice-to-text for macOS. Hold a hotkey, speak, text appears. Private on-device dictation with multiple speech engines.
Run 284B DeepSeek-V4-Flash (<59GiB RAM: 41.1 cold pp, 9.1 N=1 tg, up to 25.3 spec tok/s) & 30B MoEs (22.4 N=1 / 111.6 spec tok/s) on 64GB CPU (0 GPUs).
Native macOS GUI for ArcBox — containers, VMs, and sandboxes at your fingertips. Open Source alternative to OrbStack.
Vocello: a private voice studio for Apple Silicon. Write a script, pick or describe a voice, and generate speech locally on your Mac and iPhone. Native Swift and MLX, no Python, no cloud. Mac app and command line out now, iPhone beta on TestFlight. (Formerly QwenVoice.)
Run Android apps on your Mac like Mac apps: each in its own window with its own Dock icon, on Apple silicon. Notifications, game controllers, privacy controls. Free & open source (LineageOS + QEMU + scrcpy).
Battery charge limiter for macOS. Hold any limit, below 80% too, change it by time and place, and charge to 100% when you need it.
Phosphene is a free, open-source Mac app for making AI videos, pictures, speech and songs offline. Run LTX-2.5 and MiniMax H3 (Hailuo) locally on Apple Silicon: text-to-video and image-to-video with sound, lip-sync, character LoRA training. Mac app or Pinokio. No cloud, no API key, no NVIDIA GPU. Works with Claude Code, Codex and any MCP agent.
Learn to sing the songs you love. A free, open-source singing trainer for Mac that listens to the music you play.
Run many AI agents at once on your Mac, up to 3x faster.
Open-source AI meeting notes for Mac. Records mic + system audio with no bot, transcribes on-device or via OpenAI / Deepgram / Groq, identifies speakers offline, and writes summaries that fuse your notes with the transcript. Ask your notes and get cited answers. Tauri 2 + Rust + Swift.
macOS cleanup and security auditing tool for developers
Build Pokémon Pokopia (Switch 2) into a native Mac app and iPhone app from your own dump. Tools only; no game content.
🍎 macOS dotfiles for Python developers.
Turn your iPhone, iPad or Android phone into a trackpad, keyboard, Stream Deck-style button deck and voice typer for your Mac. No phone app, no account, local network only.
Dyno Lab — an AI safety, alignment and interpretability research workbench for Apple Silicon. Explore activations, probes, SAEs and interventions with local inference, a Python SDK, APIs and MCP.