Documentation

ModelPiper is a suite of apps for running AI locally on your Mac. A browser-based UI connects to native companion apps that handle inference, audio, vision, and more.

422 MCP Tools9 Inference Backends5 Native Apps
Getting StartedAPI ReferenceMCP ServerAll Features

Capabilities

Everything runs locally on your Mac, with no cloud and no API keys. Most of it is free; the badges say which plan the rest needs.

Replace Ollama
LLM Inferencellama.cpp + Apple Intelligence
Text-to-SpeechFluidAudio ANE + MLX Audio Metal
Speech-to-TextFluidAudio, ANE-accelerated
Vision & OCRApple Vision, 11 analyses, 18+ languages
NLPSentiment, entities, POS, lemmatization
RAGHNSW + BM25 hybrid, semantic chunking Pro $10/mo
Image UpscaleCoreML 4x super-resolution on Neural Engine Studio $29/mo
Video UpscalePiperSR 2x, double-buffered ANE+Metal pipeline Studio $29/mo
Browser AutomationCustom CDP engine, AX selectors, self-healing
PiperTestVisual AX-native test format + Playwright export Max $49/mo
Web ScrapingCDP-based, framework-aware, 7 output formats Pro $10/mo
Pose Estimation4 skeleton topologies, real-time streaming Studio $29/mo
MCP Server422 tools, HTTP transport, zero config
Cloud ProxyKeychain API key injection, OpenAI-compatible Pro $10/mo
EmbeddingsEmbeddingGemma on the Neural Engine (zero-setup, 768-dim)
Voice CloningQwen3 TTS with reference audio

Apps

The web UI, the local server, and companion apps. Companion apps are free.

ModelPiper

This app. Chat, Pipelines, Image, Video, workflows

ToolPiper

AI gateway — templates, inference, speech, vision, RAG, MCP, CDP

VisionPiper

Screen capture, recording, GIF, live streaming into pipelines

AudioPiper

Multi-source audio mixer and recorder into pipelines

MediaPiper

Browser extension — hover preview, discovery, AI upscale