New & notable

Fresh & distinctive

100 standouts you'd never find by sorting on popularity — distinctive on-device AI apps that scored high on our rubric but haven't gone mainstream yet (each under 50 ratings). Hand-judged, not algorithm-ranked.

Editor's fresh picks
Transcription & Meeting Notes

Thoth - Your Private AI Scribe

Matthieu Veinhard
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A standout Transcription & Meeting Notes app: WhisperKit/Parakeet transcription, Pyannote diarization, and five on-device LLMs, with PII anonymized locally before any optional cloud call. Privacy-first design done right.

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Local ML Model Workbench

RectLabel Pro

Ryo Kawamura
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The one-time-payment edition of RectLabel, offering the same fully offline SAM/Cellpose/Core ML annotation power, and the better value pick in Local ML Model Workbench. At a flat $19.99 with no subscription, it's the recommended way to get this on-device labeling toolkit.

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Local LLM Chat & Assistants

Edge AI Studio: On-device AI

Vishal Kushal
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A free, fully on-device LLM runner for Apple Silicon spanning Gemma, Qwen, Llama, and Phi with chat, vision, agent tools, and a model browser; a capable pick in Local LLM Chat & Assistants. Every token is generated locally with no telemetry.

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More fresh & distinctive

Corpus Quran

Free
Shaila A Zerinanwar

Deep scholarly Quran study tool: word-by-word morphology, i'rab grammar, dependency treebanks, and an AI assistant that answers in plain English fully offline.

5.0 · 17·on-device

NoemaAI

Free
Alexandru Stamate

Offline LLM client that runs GGUF/MLX/CoreML/Apple Foundation models from Hugging Face, with on-device RAG over your PDFs/EPUBs, vision, and optional remote endpoints.

4.2 · 16·on-device+ cloudMLX

Speaklone

Free
Dylan Malone

Text-native audiobook studio that clones a voice from a 3-10s clip, auto-assigns speakers, and generates expressive narration entirely on-device, no subscriptions.

4.8 · 6·on-device

CosmiCut: Spatial Video Editor

Free
Cloverfield Technologies LLC

Converts 2D clips into spatial (3D) video for Apple Vision Pro using custom on-device ML models; non-destructive timeline editor, fully private.

5.0 · 6·on-device

Echovo - TTS & Voice Cloning

$4.99
harim kang

On-device TTS and voice cloning powered by Qwen3-TTS via Apple MLX; clone a voice from a short clip across 11 languages, fully private.

4.2 · 5·on-deviceMLX

SubOut - Subtitle Extractor

Free
Basel Baragabah

Extracts hardcoded/burned-in subtitles from video into an editable .srt using on-device AI detection and multi-language OCR; nothing leaves the device.

5.0 · 2·on-device

Voice Notes & Knowledge Wiki

Free
Stock Alarm, LLC

Voice-first notes that Whisper-transcribe and auto-compile into a living personal wiki of topics, people, and projects; persona-tunable, private by design.

5.0 · 2·on-deviceWhisper

Spatial Agents

$2.99
SpeckTech Inc.

Turns live news into structured intelligence dashboards (timelines, forecasts, actor networks) using Apple Intelligence entirely on device.

5.0 · 1·on-deviceApple Foundation Models

Poise: Private Speech Coach

Free
Core Arc Studio LLC

Private speech coach that runs STT, language reasoning, and voice synthesis locally on the Neural Engine, scoring filler words, pace, and clarity in real time.

5.0 · 1·on-deviceApple Neural Engine

NoteAI: Private Knowledge

Free
xuezai lan

Private knowledge base that ingests many file types and lets you chat and semantically search them with a local LLM (any GGUF model); 100% offline.

5.0 · 1·on-deviceGGUF

Chromosonic

$12.99
Mike Gazzaruso

Self-generating sequencer/synth whose 'genome' you sculpt by typing a prompt like 'warm evolving pad' via on-device AI; AUv3 plugin, nothing leaves device.

5.0 · 1·on-device

homecrate - Player & Studio

Free
anthony burchell

Local music player and full mobile DAW with a Neural Amp Modeler guitar amp, AUv3 hosting, synth, and drum machine, plus on-device AI mix chat; no subscription.

5.0 · 1·on-device

PhotoSweeper

$14.99
Maksym Cherniaiev

Fast, well-loved Mac duplicate cleaner for huge photo libraries that detects near-duplicates by content and adds AI-powered quality scoring to auto-keep the best.

new · unrated·on-device

ClutchCut Audio

Free
QIANG GAO

Native Mac DAW with 100% on-device AI: CoreML Demucs/Open-Unmix stem separation, voice isolation, Whisper-style transcription, and 54-voice Kokoro TTS.

new · unrated·on-deviceCore ML

RWKV Music

Free
Shenzhen Yuanshi Intelligence Co., Ltd.

Generative music composer built on the RWKV LM that creates new pieces or continues your melodies entirely locally, with auto-chords and no internet needed.

5.0 · 1·on-deviceRWKV

Cast - AI Voice Studio

Free
Ctrl AI, Inc.

Local TTS studio with 5-second voice cloning, 318+ voices and a multitrack editor, powered by the Chatterbox neural model — runs fully offline on Mac.

new · unrated·on-device

Silhouette - Clean Cutouts

Free
Magenta Creations

Pro Mac cutout tool with four on-device matting models (Apple Vision, IS-Net DIS, MODNet, BiRefNet), edge control and batch export.

new · unrated·on-deviceMLX

Subtitle Extractor

Free
Muruganandh Ramadass

Pulls subtitles from any video to .srt, including image-based and burned-in tracks read frame-by-frame via on-device Apple Vision + Tesseract OCR.

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Anaglyph 3D

Free
Limit Point Software

Turns single photos and videos into red-cyan anaglyphs, side-by-side, and Vision Pro spatial 3D using on-device ML depth prediction.

3.0 · 2·on-device

Pico: Local AI Chat Server

Free
Starling Protocol, Inc

Turns your Mac into a private local AI server: run 500+ language/vision models, chat in a built-in web UI, and expose them over your network via MCP and local APIs.

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Logic Pro

$199.99
Apple Inc.

Apple's pro DAW with on-device Stem Splitter that separates a mix into six parts, plus AI Session Players and a Mastering Assistant.

new · unrated·on-device

Pixelmator Pro

$49.99
Apple Inc.

Apple's flagship pro image editor with machine-learning Super Resolution, Denoise, ML Enhance, background removal and the Repair object-removal tool, all Metal-accelerated.

new · unrated·on-deviceCore ML

Avox

$8.99
Taliyo Ltd

Offline Mac transcriber using Whisper large-v3-turbo plus a local Qwen model to summarize, translate and answer questions about your transcripts; pay-once.

new · unrated·on-deviceWhisper

Open Otter

$9.99
杰 何

Local LLM workstation for Mac: MLX inference with GPU acceleration, an OpenAI-compatible server, multi-Mac distributed inference, and on-device RAG.

new · unrated·on-deviceMLX
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