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85Personal AI assistant with persistent memory that acts across email, calendar, files and chat apps
268 tools in the catalog have a Mac app; 194 of them have a free plan and 57 also offer an API. Below are the top 60, ranked by Effect score β how much each tool is used and rated, how widely it is listed elsewhere, and whether it is alive.
A Mac app is the difference between an assistant you visit and one that is always a shortcut away: a menu-bar helper, a global hotkey that rewrites the text you have selected, dictation into any app, or a model that runs on the machine itself. Apple silicon Macs can run smaller language and image models locally, so for some tools a Mac app also means your files never leave the computer β but only for some, so check before assuming it.
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Personal AI assistant with persistent memory that acts across email, calendar, files and chat apps
One-time-purchase macOS utility that runs ChatGPT commands on selected text in any app, using your own API key
Browser sidebar that puts GPT, Claude, Gemini, and other models next to any page you're reading.
Vector design software with generative tools for recoloring, generating shapes, and text-to-vector artwork.
Runs Stable Diffusion locally on a Mac with no setup
Visual whiteboard note-taking app with AI-assisted organization, PDF annotation and a structured AI tutor.
MIT-licensed Python/JavaScript framework for building LLM agents, with 1,000+ model and tool integrations
Reads receipt and invoice photos with an AI vision model, renames the files, and builds an Excel report.
Turns a text prompt into a working 3D scene, website, app, or game inside a visual canvas.
Real-time AI sales copilot that whispers talk tracks and objection responses during live video calls.
Translator for text, documents and speech in 100+ languages across web, desktop, mobile, extensions and an API
Text to speech and voice cloning across 150+ languages
Notes app with an agent that files captures, tracks commitments and briefs you before meetings
Open-source workspace for docs, wikis and databases, with AI chat and a self-hosted option.
Turns recordings and YouTube links into sheet music, guitar tabs, MIDI and MusicXML
Bring-your-own-key chat front end for GPT, Claude and Gemini
Open-source desktop voice studio: clone a voice, dictate into any app, run it all on your own GPU
Open-source visual builder for LLM agents and RAG flows, deployable as an HTTP API or an MCP server.
Pulls bank, brokerage, crypto and property balances into one ledger with a chat assistant over the data
Agents, AI meeting notes and cross-app search built directly into the Notion workspace
Runs open-weight language models locally from one command, with a hosted tier for larger models
Neural upscaler for anime art and photos β up to 16x enlargement with noise cleanup, web to API
Bot-free meeting recorder that transcribes calls from device audio and syncs notes to CRM and docs tools
Listens during live meetings or calls and surfaces real-time suggestions, not just a post-call summary.
AI layer inside Miro's whiteboard: agents that read the canvas, cluster stickies and run prebuilt playbooks.
Networked note-taking with backlinks, calendar sync and built-in AI, sold as a single $10/month plan
Desktop LinkedIn automation: invites, message sequences, profile scraping and a built-in CRM
Screens what AI coding agents can read and swaps live secrets for reversible tokens before they reach the model.
Coding agent running several tasks in parallel from a Mac app, a VS Code or JetBrains extension, or Slack
Consumer video editor with AI cutting, captions and voice tools, sold yearly or as a version-locked licence
Mac app that finds every translatable string in an Xcode project and translates it into up to 37 languages.
Opt-in AI layer inside the Arc browser: link previews, tidier tab titles and renamed downloads
No-signup web background remover that batch-processes up to 20 images into transparent PNGs
Generative image and video tools that run on your own GPU and drive from After Effects, free on the core plan.
Desktop agent workspace that runs off your calendar and connects tools over MCP
Local drag-and-drop editor for chaining language-model steps, extended by sandboxed WebAssembly plugins
Desktop workspace that hands a local AI agent managed browser profiles, proxies and scheduled runs
Offline background removal for Sparkbooth photo booths β runs on the booth's own machine, flat monthly fee, no green screen.
Free automatic transcription for audio and video files, with speaker labels and TXT or SRT export, from Riverside.
Desktop denoise, deblur and upscaling up to 32K for Windows and Mac, sold as a licence not credits
Chat interface over SQL and NoSQL databases β query, chart and manage data without writing SQL
Free, open-source desktop app from Block for wiring together AI agents, model providers, and automations on a canvas.
AI agent that works inside the Unity Editor: writes scripts, builds scenes, debugs in play mode.
Cross-platform email client with PGP, read receipts and an AI copilot for drafts and summaries.
Mobile-first AI video editor that cuts, captions, dubs and drops b-roll into talking-head footage
Generates an editable mind map from a text prompt inside Wondershare's EdrawMind diagramming app.
Desktop overlay that feeds AI answers during live coding interviews while staying hidden from screen-share and proctoring tools.
Open-source local studio for Flux, SDXL and SD 1.5 image generation with canvas layers and node workflows
Free Max for Live plugins that generate and transform MIDI drums and melodies inside Ableton Live
Open-source, self-hosted AI assistant you message from WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and 10+ other chat apps
Design canvas that lives in your repo: draw a screen, get code your editor and coding agent can read
Prototyping tool that assembles interfaces from real coded components pulled from Git, Storybook, or a library, and exports React.
Turns MIDI and lyrics into sung vocal performances, with voice cloning and DAW plugin support for producers.
macOS utility that calls your own AI keys from any app via a hotkey β one $29 lifetime license
No-code builder that turns a conversational app description into a deployed web app with logins and payments
Mac-wide autocomplete: press Tab in any app and it finishes the sentence from what it has seen on your screen
Records rambling voice memos on iPhone or Mac and turns them into structured notes with summaries and action items.
Mac assistant that reads the screen you are already on instead of making you paste context.
Terminal-based coding agent that edits your codebase and runs commands from natural-language requests.
Free Mac app that chats with your PDFs on-device and links every answer back to the page
Showing the top 60 of 268 by Effect score. The categories above hold the rest.