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Local

Discovered On Aug 21, 2026

Primary Metric 98

Zero (!) friction local AI for your Mac

Local is a macOS app that runs fully private AI directly on your own machine. We built it for completely frictionless setup. It tunes itself to your hardware, so chat, coding agents and meeting notes run up to 5.4x faster on the same hardware, without your data ever leaving the device. No cloud. No accounts. No cost. "Office Mode" let's you run AI on the fastest machine in the office and every laptop can connect to it.

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Developer & User Discourse

[Redacted] • Aug 21, 2026

Congrats on the launch. I'm curious if you ran tests on different hardware specifications and if you noticed an ideal setup for certain models and what the bare minimum requirements are.

[Redacted] • Aug 21, 2026

LLM costs can get messy really quickly. Having a smarter way to balance price and performance feels like a problem worth solving.

[Redacted] • Aug 21, 2026

If you're curious about the engine that makes Local the fastest AI inference app on Apple silicon, check out BaseRT and the research behind it: https://www.basecompute.co/research

[Redacted] • Aug 20, 2026

Everybody is talking about local AI at the moment. It solves the privacy issue and it's also completely free. But it used to be a pain to set up. That's why we built Local. It's completely frictionless. It optimised itself to your hardware, recommends the right models you can actually run and removes all the complexity of on-device AI. Hope you like it :)