Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

# Nativ — Local AI for your Mac Source: [https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/](https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/) Latest release· 100% open source · live now ## Run AI models locally on your*Mac\.* Nativ puts frontier intelligence on your desk\. Download and run open models on Apple Silicon — no accounts, no subscriptions, no cloud\. Universal · Apple Silicon \(M1\+\) **Nativ, running on macOS**Real app\. Real local models\. No cloud\.  01 / CHAT Talk to open models with streaming responses and per\-message performance metrics\. CAPTURED LIVE ON THIS MAC · JUL 2026 / SIX REASONS TO GO LOCAL ## Everything you need\. *Nothing you don’t\.* 01CURATED LIBRARY### 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\. 02CHAT### Prompt it like you would Claude A clean interface with streaming, markdown, code highlighting, and image input\. Every response is generated locally\. 03TELEMETRY### See what’s actually happening Live tokens/sec, memory pressure, thermal state, and time\-to\-first\-token\. The details developers want\. 04APPLE SILICON### Optimized for Apple Silicon Built on MLX\-VLM and tuned for M\-series unified memory and Metal — no wrappers, no translation layers\. 05EVERY MODALITY### Language, vision, video, code, audio Chat with an LLM, caption an image, summarize video, autocomplete code, or transcribe and generate speech\. 06FREE FOREVER### Not a SaaS\. Not a subscription\. No accounts to create, no credits to buy, no data to sell\. You own it end\-to\-end\. **MITLICENSED** / INTEGRATIONS ## Your tools\. *Your models\.* Connect the coding agents you already use to models running locally on your Mac\. Nativ handles the endpoint; your workflow stays familiar\. **01**Pi**02**Codex**03**Claude Code**04**Hermes**05**OpenCode  LOCAL ENDPOINT**One model server\. Every coding agent\.** MANIFESTO · REV 1\.0 ## Why we’re open source when nobody else is\. `philosophy\.txt`UTF\-8 $ cat philosophy\.txt The other “local AI” apps you’ve heard of? They’re proprietary shells built on top of open\-source engines they don’t own\. They keep the UI closed, add a paywall, and hope you don’t look under the hood\. We built in the open\. The desktop app is open too\. Every line\. Every model loader\. Every telemetry chart\. You can read it, fork it, or send a pull request tonight\. No VC roadmap\. No enterprise tier\. No dark pattern that turns your prompts into training data\. Just software made by researchers and hackers, for researchers and hackers\. [Explore the full model library→](https://huggingface.co/models?library=mlx) YOUR MAC IS MORE CAPABLE THAN YOU THINK ## Stop renting *intelligence\.* Run it locally, in the open\.