Best macOS AI tools
Apple's desktop operating system — native apps, automation and system-level access. The 15 highest-ranked of the 30 apps tagged macOS in the Onei AI catalogue.
Everything tagged macOS: apps, skills and MCP servers
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Osaurus, Inc.
Native macOS harness for AI agents — any model, persistent memory, sandboxed execution and cryptographic identity, fully offline and open source.
Also: Open Source · Editor's pick
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The Plow Collective PBC
Mac app that exposes your browser, CLI, files and saved logins to Claude, Codex or any MCP agent — with an approval gate on every request.
Also: Local-First, Privacy · Editor's pick
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Wispr
Voice dictation that works in every app and cleans up as you speak — no filler words, correct formatting, right tone.
Also: Dictation, iOS, Transcription · Editor's pick
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Jun Kim
Menu-bar LLM inference server for Apple Silicon, with continuous batching and tiered KV caching that keeps local models fast enough for real coding work.
Also: Local-First, Open Source, Privacy · Editor's pick
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pungme
An open-source Mac app that gives Claude Code a real browser, a live iOS Simulator and its own git worktree per chat.
Also: Coding Agent, iOS, Open Source · Editor's pick
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macOS assistant that works at your cursor — rewrite selected text in place, dictate into any field, and explain whatever is on screen, without switching to a chat tab.
Also: Dictation · Editor's pick
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Coping Hard
Hit record, and Voicenotes transcribes, summarises and indexes what you said — then answers questions about anything you have ever recorded.
Also: Transcription · Editor's pick
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Cua AI, Inc.
Open-source computer-use infrastructure: a desktop driver, cloud desktop fleets, local macOS VMs and a benchmark for agents that click.
Also: Open Source
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Cluely, Inc.
Real-time AI meeting assistant for Mac, Windows and iPhone that transcribes as you talk, answers questions mid-conversation and writes the notes afterwards.
Also: iOS, Transcription
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Publish Studio
A macOS script runner where you and your coding agent drive the same terminal processes — menu bar, CLI and a built-in MCP server over one local socket.
Also: Coding Agent, Local-First
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O-mega Enterprise Inc.
Hold a key, speak, and Yap types your words into any app. Speech recognition runs on your Mac or PC, so your audio is never uploaded.
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herval
Free, open-source Mac app that lets you chat with, approve and schedule Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw and Hermes agents like contacts.
Also: Coding Agent, Open Source
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Free, open-source Mac dictation: hold a shortcut, speak, and clean text lands in any app. Local speech models, no account.
Also: Dictation, Open Source, Privacy
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Local-first converter that turns PDFs, Office files, scans and web pages into clean Markdown and JSON.
Also: Local-First
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A Mac budgeting app whose AI chat runs entirely on your machine, so your ledger and your questions never leave your disk.
Also: Local-First, Privacy
How this list is ranked
Ranked by editorial weight (0–100), plus 5 points per bookmark up to 10, plus or minus up to 20 for the average review rating; ties go to featured apps, then the most recently updated. Discontinued apps are never ranked.