apfel
Access Apple’s local foundation model through a command-line tool with an OpenAI-compatible HTTP server, full function and schema calling, UNIX-friendly features, file attachments, JSON output, privacy-preserving on-device inference, and zero recurring costs.
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- Privacy focused
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- No registration required
- Works Offline
- No Tracking
- Command line interface
- Ad-free
- Apple Silicon support
- OpenAI integration
- Zero configuration
- AI-Powered
- AI Chatbot
- HTTP server
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support
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What is apfel?
Use the free local Apple Intelligence LLM on your Mac — your model, your machine, your way.
No API keys. No cloud. No subscriptions. No per-token billing. The AI is already on your computer — apfel lets you use it.
What is this?
Every Mac with Apple Silicon has a built-in LLM — Apple's on-device foundation model, shipped as part of Apple Intelligence. Apple provides the FoundationModels framework (macOS 26+) to access it, but only exposes it through Siri and system features. apfel wraps it in a CLI and an HTTP server — so you can actually use it. All inference runs on-device, no network calls.
- UNIX tool — echo “summarize this” | apfel - pipe-friendly, file attachments, JSON output, exit codes
- OpenAI-compatible server — apfel --serve — drop-in replacement at localhost:11434, works with any OpenAI SDK
- Tool calling — function calling with schema conversion, full round-trip support
- Zero cost — no API keys, no cloud, no subscriptions, 4096-token context window