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Pick the right model for your Mac
Run standout open models from Google, Cohere, and Liquid AI. Nativ recommends the right partner model for your hardware.
Run AI on your Mac
Nativ is a free, open-source local AI app for Mac. It runs open AI models on Apple Silicon, and nothing leaves your Mac.
You already own a supercomputer
All your data, research and sensitive documents can stay on your device.
Prompt like you would Claude
A clean interface with streaming, markdown, code highlighting, and image input. Every response is generated locally.
Optimized for Apple Silicon
Built on MLX-VLM and tuned for M-series unified memory and Metal — no wrappers, no translation layers.
See what’s actually happening
Live tokens/sec, memory pressure, thermal state, and time-to-first-token. The details developers want.
Language, vision, video, code, audio
Chat with an LLM, caption an image, summarize video, autocomplete code, or transcribe and generate speech.
Not a SaaS. Not a subscription.
No accounts to create, no credits to buy, no data to sell. You own it end-to-end.
Never leave your coding environment
Connect the coding agents you already use to models running locally on your Mac.
Nativ handles the endpoint; your workflow stays familiar.
Pi
Minimal, extensible coding agent
Codex
OpenAI coding agent for the terminal
Claude Code
Anthropic’s agentic coding tool
Hermes
Open agent with tools, skills and memory
Open code
Open-source coding agent
Aider
AI pair programming in your terminal
Goose
Extensible on-machine agent
Pi
Minimal, extensible coding agent
Codex
OpenAI coding agent for the terminal
Claude Code
Anthropic’s agentic coding tool
Hermes
Open agent with tools, skills and memory
Open code
Open-source coding agent
Aider
AI pair programming in your terminal
Goose
Extensible on-machine agent
Why we’re open source
when nobody else is.
Most “local AI” apps are closed shells wrapped around open-source engines someone else wrote. Nice UI, a paywall, no way to see what’s happening underneath.
Ours is open, desktop app included. Read it, fork it, open a PR tonight.
No enterprise tier, no investor roadmap, and nobody’s turning your prompts into training data.
Open models from teams we trust
Access our partner models and thousands of others inside Nativ
Questions about Nativ
- What is Nativ?
- Nativ is a free, open-source local AI app for Mac. It runs open AI models on Apple Silicon, on your own device.
- Is Nativ free?
- Yes. Nativ is free and MIT licensed. There is no account and no subscription.
- Which Macs does it run on?
- Macs with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) on macOS 26 or later.
- Does it work offline?
- Yes. Once a model is downloaded, it runs on your Mac with no internet connection.
- Can I run AI locally on my Mac?
- Yes, if it has Apple Silicon. Download Nativ, pick the model it suggests for your Mac, and ask your first question. There is no server to set up and no account.
- What leaves my Mac?
- Your chats, prompts, files and answers stay on your Mac: Neywa Labs does not collect them. The app goes online to download the models you pick and to check for updates.
- What can I do with it?
- Chat with language models, ask about images and video, transcribe speech and generate it, create images, and connect coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex to a model running on your Mac through Nativ's local server.
- How many models can I run?
- More than 5,000 open models. Nativ suggests models that fit your Mac's memory.
- Who makes Nativ?
- Neywa Labs, a local AI company, and the team behind the open-source libraries mlx-vlm and mlx-audio.
Stop renting intelligence
You already have a supercomputer. Run it locally, in the open
