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Apple's desktop operating system — native apps, automation and system-level access.

36 apps, 1 skill and 3 MCP servers tagged macOS.

Best macOS AI tools, ranked

Apps

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App: Osaurus

Osaurus, Inc.

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Native macOS harness for AI agents — any model, persistent memory, sandboxed execution and cryptographic identity, fully offline and open source.

General PurposeFree

App: Plow Latch

The Plow Collective PBC

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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.

Automation & WorkflowsFree
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Voice dictation that works in every app and cleans up as you speak — no filler words, correct formatting, right tone.

Audio & VoiceFreemium

App: oMLX

Jun Kim

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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.

Coding & DevelopmentFree

App: Cua

Cua AI, Inc.

Open-source computer-use infrastructure: a desktop driver, cloud desktop fleets, local macOS VMs and a benchmark for agents that click.

Automation & WorkflowsFreemium

App: Voicenotes

Coping Hard

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Hit record, and Voicenotes transcribes, summarises and indexes what you said — then answers questions about anything you have ever recorded.

Audio & VoiceFreemium
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An open-source Mac app that gives Claude Code a real browser, a live iOS Simulator and its own git worktree per chat.

Coding & DevelopmentFree
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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.

Business & ProductivityFreemium

App: Cluely

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.

Business & ProductivityFreemium

App: Grove

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.

Coding & DevelopmentPaid
New

Free, open-source model switcher that lets Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and other coding agents run any provider's model through one local gateway.

Coding & DevelopmentFree

App: LanguageTool

LanguageTooler GmbH

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Multilingual grammar, spelling and style checker with a Windows and macOS desktop app, browser and office add-ons, and an open-source core.

Text & WritingFreemium
New

ByteDance's open-source desktop app that lets the UI-TARS vision-language model operate your computer and browser with mouse and keyboard.

Automation & WorkflowsFree

App: Dia

The Browser Company

New

An AI browser for the workday from The Browser Company: a chat that reads your tabs and connected tools, a Morning Brief, meeting pages and AI-made decks.

Business & ProductivityFreemium

App: TextSniper

Valerijs Boguckis

Mac menu-bar OCR: drag over any part of the screen and the text in it lands on your clipboard, from videos, PDFs, images or apps.

Business & ProductivityPaid

Desktop PDF editor built around ABBYY's AI-based OCR: turn scans into editable Word, Excel or searchable PDF in 198 recognition languages.

Business & ProductivitySubscription

Local-first converter that turns PDFs, Office files, scans and web pages into clean Markdown and JSON.

Data & AnalyticsPaid

A Mac budgeting app whose AI chat runs entirely on your machine, so your ledger and your questions never leave your disk.

Business & ProductivityFreemium

App: Yap

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.

Audio & VoiceSubscription

Free, open-source Mac app that lets you chat with, approve and schedule Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw and Hermes agents like contacts.

Coding & DevelopmentFree

Free, open-source Mac dictation: hold a shortcut, speak, and clean text lands in any app. Local speech models, no account.

Audio & VoiceFree

App: Dove

Cartasec Pte. Ltd.

AI email client from the Canary Mail team that sorts your inbox into Needs You, FYI and Noise, pulls out tasks, and flags phishing.

Business & ProductivityFreemium

Voice typing for Mac and Windows that turns speech into edited, formatted text in any app — plus screenshot questions and spoken edits behind one shortcut.

Audio & VoiceFreemium

App: Voiskey

Nexileap

Voice typing that rewrites rough speech to fit the app you are in — Slack, Gmail, Cursor or a notes field — across 100+ languages.

Audio & VoiceFreemium

Native, open-source Mac database client for 29 engines, with a Claude-powered SQL assistant and its own MCP server.

Coding & DevelopmentFreemium

App: Oats

Ariso

Free MIT-licensed menu-bar meeting notetaker for Mac that can transcribe and summarise fully on-device, with no bot joining the call.

Business & ProductivityFree

App: Tucky

coconutStudio

A native macOS notes app that parks notes along your screen edge and keeps an AI agent inside them, encrypted on-device.

Business & ProductivityFreemium

App: Screenify Studio

SnapGen Solutions

Mac screen recorder that turns rough captures into cinematic product demos, with on-device AI captions, voiceover and a CLI agents can drive.

VideoFreemium

App: HyNote

Tuling Network Limited

AI note taker that records any Mac or iPhone audio and transcribes it on-device — no meeting bot, unlimited local transcription for free.

Business & ProductivityFreemium

Free, open-source macOS menu bar app that shows live status for every parallel Codex task, so you can see which agent needs you without reopening Codex.

Coding & DevelopmentFree

App: Zen Whisper

ZENPRODUCTS Technologies Private Limited

Local-first Mac dictation that types into any app, plus file and link transcription across 110 spoken languages on Apple Silicon.

Audio & VoiceFreemium

Privacy-first voice to text for macOS, Windows, and iOS — runs offline on-device with customisable AI modes.

Audio & VoiceFreemium

System-wide AI autocomplete for macOS that finishes your sentences in any app — fully on-device, no account, no cloud.

Text & WritingPaid

Build real native Mac apps by describing them to an AI agent — local-first, offline, and yours to keep.

Coding & DevelopmentFreemium

App: Mispher

Daniel Saad

On-device Mac dictation, rewriting, translation, and local agent — no cloud, no accounts.

Audio & VoiceFree

Raycast AI combines leading models with powerful extensions - right on your OS

Business & ProductivitySubscription

Skills

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Skill: Big Arrow on the Screen

by Franz Enzenhofer

macOS CLI plus agent skill that lets Claude Code or Codex draw a big click-through arrow and sign on your screen to show you exactly what to click.

MCP servers

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MCP: BashCut

by dongnguyenvie

MCP server and CLI for BashCut, a native macOS video editor: let Claude or Codex edit the open timeline, captions, color and exports through undoable commands.

MCP: Peekaboo

by OpenClaw

macOS screen capture and GUI automation over MCP — see the screen, then click, type and navigate it, with local or hosted vision models.

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