--- title: "ModelPiper Chat: Free Local AI Chat for Mac" description: "Chat with models running on your Mac, free and with no account, by typing or by voice. With Pro, the agent uses your browser, files and Git." canonical: "https://modelpiper.com/chat" --- # ModelPiper Chat: Free Local AI Chat for Mac > Chat with models running on your Mac, free and with no account, by typing or by voice. With Pro, the agent uses your browser, files and Git. [Skip to content](#main) [ModelPiper](/) / Explore [Pricing](/pricing) Resources [Download ToolPiper](/download) What will you do with your Mac? Speak, create, develop, and automate. - [ChatChat with models on your Mac.](/chat) - [StudioGenerate and edit images.](/studio) - [CodeAn AI code editor on your Mac.](/code) - [MCP ToolsA local MCP server for macOS.](/mcp) - [All FeaturesEvery capability and its status.](/features) Find your next step. What your Mac can run. How to get there. - [Model FitSee what your Mac can run.](/fit) - [BenchmarksModel speed on Apple Silicon.](/fit/benchmarks) - [CompareToolPiper vs Ollama and the rest.](/compare) - [DocumentationAPI references and guides.](/docs) - [BlogTechnical papers and updates.](/blog) ModelPiper Chat # Ask. Then let it work. Chat with models running on your Mac, free and with no account. When you want more than an answer, give the agent your tools. [Download for Mac](/download) Apple Silicon · macOS 26+ · Free to start 01 / Local ## Your models. Your Mac. Run open models on Apple Silicon with ToolPiper’s llama.cpp engine, or use Apple Intelligence. No account and no caps. ### Any GGUF model Download as many models as you like and switch between them. ### Apple Intelligence Use Apple’s on-device model, running on the Neural Engine. ### A local API Point your own apps at the same models through an OpenAI-compatible API. 02 / Agent ## More than an answer. With Pro, the agent reads and edits files, drives the browser and commits to Git, and shows each step as it goes. ### Work you can see File diffs, terminal output and Git status appear in the chat as the agent works. ### Chats that keep running Run several chats side by side. Closing the tab doesn’t stop one. Only Stop does. ### A workspace per chat Each chat keeps its own files, tasks and browser page. 03 / Voice ## Or just say it. Voice chat, dictation and text-to-speech run on your Mac and are free on every plan. ### Voice chat Talk with a local model and hear it answer. ### Dictation Hold a key, speak, and the text lands where your cursor is. ### Talk to your Mac Turn on dark mode, set the volume or start a Focus by asking. ## Local chats stay on your Mac. With a local model, your prompts, files and replies are processed on your device. Connect a cloud provider when you want one, with your own keys. [How privacy works](/privacy) Getting started ## Start with your Mac. 1. 1 ### Download ToolPiper. Install the native app on your Apple Silicon Mac. 2. 2 ### Choose your model. Pick a local model and let ToolPiper download it. 3. 3 ### Open Chat. Open ModelPiper from ToolPiper and ask anything, typed or spoken. ## Explore plans Free for everyone. Pro for the full toolkit. Studio for creators, Max for developers. Team for your whole office on one Mac. Monthly Annual Save 20% Cancel anytime. Each paid plan includes everything in the plan below it. ### Free Everything Ollama does, free. No account, no caps. $0 Try ModelPiper - Native llama.cpp engine, runs any GGUF model - Unlimited model downloads, multi-model switching - Local OpenAI-compatible API + embeddings - MCP host: install any MCP server and run its tools through ToolPiper - All speech: transcription, text-to-speech, voice cloning, dictation, voice chat - Talk to your Mac: spoken commands across 26 system domains - Local chat with tools, on any model you run - Apple Intelligence on the Neural Engine - Browser basics: connect to Chrome, snapshot a page, list tabs - Search Console reports: what your site already ranks for - Free companion apps (VisionPiper, AudioPiper, MediaPiper) Most popular ### Pro What no model runner does, at any price. $10/mo Get Pro - Everything in Free - Browser automation: act, fill, extract, record, intercept, assert and run Autopilot loops in Chrome - Files, Git and archives: the agent reads, edits, searches and commits - Clipboard cache tools: the agent reads and writes your clipboard history - Mac automation: the agent drives apps, types and clicks, arranges windows and Spaces, launches and stops processes, writes defaults and undoes - Local RAG over your files - Web scraping and YouTube transcripts - Screen and image analysis: screenshot, OCR, color pick, webcam, live stream and capture region controls - Image composition: import, fill, outpaint, free transform, perspective, gradients and text - Agent speech and recording: record, transcribe, speak and clone a voice from a tool call - Cloud AI models in chat, voice and the API (bring your own keys) - Outreach toolkit: SEO tools (SERP capture with AI Overview detection, keyword discovery, rank check), GitHub activity, content queue - API discovery toolkit + request replay - Save captured video streams to disk ### Studio The Mac makes things. For content creators and marketers. $29/mo Get Studio - Everything in Pro - Image editing and generation: adjust, crop, rotate, flip, transform, cut out, inpaint, remove, segment, generate - Image upscaling (on-device) - Image workbenches: layered canvases, masks, adjustment layers - Storyboards and video: shots, narration, timeline, render - Video upscaling (ANE-native) - Image to video, Gaussian splats and 3D worlds - Screen recording, media extraction and hosting for the clips you make, plus live stream recording with rewind - Audio waveforms and silence detection - Pose detection (60fps streaming) ### Max For developers and QA engineers. $49/mo Get Max - Everything in Studio - Code (agentic AI code editor) - PiperFlow (self-healing browser flows) - Automations: run any tool, command or chat in a project automatically, once, on an interval or on a cron schedule - Priority support For teams ### Team One Mac runs your AI. Your whole team uses it — governed, audited, private. $99/mo per deployment Get Team - Everything in Max, on the deployment - Unlimited named member tokens — no per-seat pricing - Per-user attributed audit trail with pull export - Remote tool governance from modelpiper.com - Clients on any OS via piper-bridge - Priced per deployment — add Macs as you grow Good to know ## Questions, answered. [Find what fits your Mac](/fit) Is Chat free? Yes. Chatting with local models is free with no account, including tools from any MCP server you install. Pro ($10/mo) adds the agent’s browser, files and Git tools, RAG over your files, and cloud models with your own keys. Can I use cloud models like GPT or Claude? Yes, with your own API keys, which ToolPiper keeps in the macOS Keychain. Cloud requests go through ToolPiper’s proxy, which is part of Pro. Which model should I start with? That depends on how much memory your Mac has. Fit shows which models fit your Mac and estimates how fast each one generates. Does voice cost extra? No. Voice chat, dictation and text-to-speech are free on every plan and run on your Mac. ModelPiper Chat ## Start the conversation. [Download for Mac](/download) Free to download. Upgrade in-app for paid features. 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