MindMac
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.
Pros
- Perpetual licence from 29 dollars rather than a monthly fee
- Supports OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Mistral in one app
- Local models through Ollama and LM Studio
- Inline mode for querying from inside other applications
- Runs on macOS 13 and later, on both Intel and Apple Silicon
Cons
- Free updates stop after a year unless you pay the discounted renewal
- You supply and pay for every provider key yourself, so the licence is not the whole cost
- macOS only; iPhone and iPad are described as future work
- The publisher names no company, country or legal entity anywhere on the site