7 macOS native generative AI tools to try

Generative AI tools and platforms are not just the flavour of the month (for now), they’re the flavour of the year, if not the decade.

Many of these are web platforms, and I have always been the first to admit that I prefer good old-fashioned, offline-first native desktop applications. As many of the new wave of services were smart enough to include an API option, this has made it possible for enterprising developers to create any other type of application they want to, including, in the case of this article, macOS native ones.

All the options features here are wrappers around external services and i only chose “proper” (whatever that means) native applications, no Electron-based applications need apply.

A quick note. To work offline, many of these tools download a trained model on initial launch. Depending on the options you pick or the tier you pay for, these downloads can be large. You have been warned!

Are you ready to meet your new productivity helpers or hinderers? Let’s get started!

Amazing AI

A wrapper around Stable Diffusion, Amazing AI isn’t the only option for macOS, but it’s the most Mac-native I found, as many others were…