Discover the best local-first Mac apps. One-time payments or free. No subscriptions.
The Werk
Minimal, beautiful, and fast local markdown editor for macOS with live styling and wiki-links.
Solt Wagner
Beautiful visual clipboard history manager for Mac with screenshots, custom categories, and offline privacy.
Saeed Vaziry | Open Source
Lightweight, memory-efficient terminal for Mac built with SwiftUI and libghostty.
Sergey Nazarov
Mac screen recorder that auto-zooms on clicks, smooths cursor, and exports polished 4K videos — no editing needed.
webadderall | Open Source
Open-source screen recorder with auto-zoom, silky cursor animations, and timeline editing.
Diego Barrera
Local-first dictation and transcription app for macOS with AI cleanup and MCP-ready workflows.
Jan
Open-source AI assistant that runs local models privately on your desktop.
Daniel Nguyen
Native AI client for Mac that connects cloud and local models in one private, high-performance workspace.
Giacomo (Snaply)
Free, private AI app for Mac with dictation, meeting notes, and writing assistant — all on-device.
Martin Rariga
Run your most-used AI prompts on any selected text with a single click from the menubar.
Raycast
Blazingly fast, extendable launcher for Mac that replaces Spotlight with powerful productivity tools.
Mystical Bits
Smart break reminder that helps reduce eye strain and build healthier screen habits on Mac.
Chronoid
AI-powered automatic time tracking for macOS with Pomodoro, website blocking, and local productivity analytics.
App ahead GmbH
Radial pie menu launcher for Mac — launch, switch, and control apps with a beautiful circular interface.
Vasudev Siddh
Local-first, open-source job hunt assistant that scrapes, ranks, and matches jobs to your profile.
Hamza (Melo)
Spatial AI workboard that combines notes, tasks, calendar, and AI in one native Mac app.
TablePro
Native database client for Mac and iPhone — lightweight, fast, and built with Swift.
Superconductor Team
Native macOS app for running parallel AI coding agents — built entirely in Rust with GPU-rendered terminal.
Theo & T3 Team
Open-source GUI for managing AI coding agents with your own API keys.
Resurf
Local-first quick capture and personal library for thoughts, ideas, and everything worth keeping.
Kamran Ahmed (roadmap.sh)
Native mind mapping app for macOS with AI-powered idea expansion and local-first storage.
Refine
AI-powered offline grammar checker and writing refinement tool for Mac.
LonelyDuck Software
Private AI notebook for Mac with local models, encrypted iCloud sync, and code notebooks.
Richie McIlroy
Open-source screen recording and screenshot tool — the free, privacy-focused alternative to Loom.
OpenVox
Local-first text-to-speech app for Mac with 300+ voices, voice cloning, and audiobook generation.
Hieu (Compresto)
Native macOS app that batch compresses videos, images, PDFs, and GIFs with no quality loss.
Niklas Fischer
Backup software that tracks every file across multiple destinations — even when drives are unplugged.
