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Core ML

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

Apple's on-device machine-learning runtime for iOS and macOS apps, with the open-source coremltools package for converting PyTorch and other models to its format

BSD-3-ClauseFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Create ML

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

Apple's app and Swift framework for training image, text, sound, tabular and activity models on a Mac without writing training code, exporting directly to Core ML

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

exo

Exo Labs · Distributed & parallel computing

Open-source software that pools several Apple Silicon Macs (and Linux hosts) into one local inference cluster, sharding large models across devices with MLX

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Foundation Models (Apple)

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

Apple's Swift framework giving apps access to the on-device Apple Intelligence language model with guided generation, tool calling and sessions, on OS 26 and later

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Ghostty

Ghostty project (Mitchell Hashimoto) · Terminals & shells

Native, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator for macOS and Linux written in Zig, with platform-native UI and a cross-platform core library

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Homebrew

Homebrew maintainers · macOS system utilities

In-depth entry

Community-maintained package manager for macOS and Linux that installs command-line tools (formulae) and desktop apps (casks) from the terminal

BSD-2-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Karabiner-Elements

pqrs.org (Takayama Fumihiko) · macOS system utilities

Free, public-domain keyboard customizer for macOS that remaps keys and defines complex modifications through JSON rules at the driver level

UnlicenseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

llama.cpp

ggml-org (Georgi Gerganov and contributors) · Local LLM inference & serving

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C/C++ inference engine for LLMs and vision-language models with GGUF quantized weights, Metal, CUDA, Vulkan and other backends, a CLI and an OpenAI-compatible server

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

LM Studio

Element Labs, Inc. · Local LLM inference & serving

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Proprietary desktop app for discovering, downloading and running local LLMs with llama.cpp and MLX engines, a chat UI, an OpenAI-compatible server, CLI, SDKs and a headless daemon

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalBroken

MATLAB

MathWorks · Mathematical & statistical computing

MathWorks' commercial numeric computing environment and language for engineers and scientists, with toolboxes, Simulink integration, apps and MATLAB Online

ProprietaryPaidAcademicLocalNov 2, 2026

Metal

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

Apple's low-level GPU programming framework for graphics and parallel compute on iOS, macOS and visionOS, the layer beneath MLX, Core ML and most Apple Silicon ML runtimes

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

MLX

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

In-depth entry

Apple's open-source array framework for machine learning on Apple Silicon, with NumPy-like Python, C++ and Swift APIs and unified CPU/GPU memory

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

MLX LM

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

In-depth entry

Python package and CLI for running, serving, quantizing and fine-tuning large language models on Apple Silicon with MLX

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

MLX Whisper

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

Port of OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition models to MLX, offering a CLI and Python API for local transcription on Apple Silicon

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

NumPy

NumPy developers (NumFOCUS) · DataFrames & array computing

Foundational Python library for n-dimensional arrays, vectorized math, linear algebra, random numbers and the array API used by the scientific stack

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalBroken

Ollama

Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving

In-depth entry

Open-source runtime and model manager for running open-weight LLMs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a REST API, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints and optional cloud models

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

OrbStack

OrbStack (Orbital Labs) · Containers & virtualization

macOS application that runs Docker containers, Linux machines and a local Kubernetes cluster as a lighter replacement for Docker Desktop

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Polars

Polars (Ritchie Vink and contributors) · DataFrames & array computing

In-depth entry

Rust-based DataFrame library with Python, Rust, Node and R bindings offering lazy query optimization, multithreading and Arrow-native memory

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

PyTorch

PyTorch Foundation (Linux Foundation) · Training & fine-tuning

Open-source deep-learning framework with eager tensors, autograd, torch.compile and distributed training, governed by the PyTorch Foundation and the base of most LLM tooling

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedBroken

Swift

Apple Inc. · Swift & SwiftUI development

In-depth entry

Apple's compiled, memory-safe, multi-paradigm language for Apple platforms, Linux, Windows and embedded targets, developed in the open at swift.org

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

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