I turned my Mac into a private AI workstation (chat, images, video, all offline) – Walkthrough
Hello r/macapps!
Shubi here – I’ve been building a fully on-device AI app for Mac, and I just shipped a major Lekh AI Pro update. This community has been huge in shaping the product, so I’d love your feedback on what to build next. Attached is a walkthrough video of how the app works.
This release is packed – here’s what’s inside now:
- Chat with local models (MLX, GGUF, JANG – LLaMA, Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek, etc.)
- Vision models (analyze images)
- Image generation + editing (Flux, Qwen Image Edit,SDXL, inpainting, object removal, colorization)
- 4x Upscaling
- NEW: LTX-2.3 video generation (fully local)
- Text-to-Speech (Kokoro + Qwen3 TTS + MOSS TTS, fully offline)
- Memory / RAG (Knowledge Hub) – chat with your own files & data
- Memory Sync – keep context across chats
- Local AI Server (OpenAI-compatible, runs on your Mac)
- Performance upgrades (turboquant, faster MLX inference)
- Bring your own models (GGUF, MLX, JANG support)
- Benchmarking capabilities
- Tons of bug fixes + chat improvements
- EDIT: Added support for Gemma 4 and Bonsai 8B
- EDIT: It also has open router integration so you can chat with cloud models too.
- EDIT: Forgot to include that if you bought the base ios version for 4.99 before March 14 2026, you get Pro for free. Please dm me a screenshot of the receipt and I'll share a license key asap.
Everything runs fully on-device – no APIs, no subscriptions, no data leaving your Mac.
Problem: Most AI tools depend on cloud APIs, subscriptions, and sending your data externally. That adds cost, latency, and privacy concerns. There’s still no single tool that brings everything local into one place.
Solution: Lekh AI Pro runs chat, vision, image generation, editing, TTS, memory (RAG), and even video generation entirely on your Mac – unified, private, and optimized for Apple Silicon.
Comparison: Ollama + OpenWebUI are great for local chat, but require setup and are fragmented across tools. This is a fully integrated native macOS app – no config, no terminals – just install and run everything locally.
Price: $9.99 one-time (Pro)
Direct download (advanced features not allowed in App Store due to sandbox limits)