One-time-purchase Mac client for OpenAI, Gemini, Claude and local models, with an inline mode
MindMac is a native macOS front end for whichever model provider you already pay for: OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Mistral, and local runtimes through Ollama or LM Studio. Its inline mode lets you query a model from inside another application without switching windows. Licences are perpetual and priced by how many Macs you install on, with a year of updates included and renewals discounted afterwards, so there is no subscription to the app itself — you pay your model provider directly. It needs macOS 13 or later and runs on Intel and Apple Silicon. iPhone and iPad versions are described as future work, and the publisher names no legal entity or country on the site.
Perpetual licences: 29 dollars for one Mac, 49 for two, 69 for three, each with a year of free updates, a 14-day money-back guarantee and a 40 percent discount to renew updates afterwards. Model usage is billed separately by whichever provider key you supply.
Use tool ↗A rare thing in this category: you buy it once. For 29 dollars you get a native Mac client that talks to every major provider plus local models through Ollama or LM Studio, and the inline mode means you can query from inside whatever app you are in. What you are not buying is a service — no accounts, no sync guarantees, and after twelve months you either stop getting updates or pay again. The publisher also stays anonymous, which is worth weighing for something that holds your API keys.
Watch out: A bring-your-own-key client stores provider credentials locally, and the publisher is anonymous — check where the keys live before pasting production keys in.
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