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Osaurus

Local AI agents on your Mac. Private, offline, free. Open models run on Apple Silicon; add ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini only when you choose.

Osaurus: local AI agents on your Mac

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac  macOS 15.5 or later, Apple Silicon (M1 and later). Also via Homebrew: brew install --cask osaurus
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Raptor 0.5: Osaurus's own AI agent model, built for 8GB and 16GB Macs
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused
  3.  AI-Powered

Features

  1.  Cloud Sync
  2.  Spell Checking
  3.  Text to Image Generation
  4.  Works Offline
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  No registration required
  7.  Marketing Automation
  8.  Text to Speech
  9.  No Tracking
  10.  Dark Mode
  11.  Local AI
  12.  Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support
  13.  Sits in the menu bar
  14.  AI Writing
  15.  OpenAI Integration
  16.  AI Chatbot
  17.  Apple Silicon support

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What is Osaurus?

Osaurus is a native Swift app for running AI agents on your Mac. Open models run locally on Apple Silicon, so your conversations, files and memory never leave the machine. When a task needs a frontier model you can add ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, and one shared memory carries across all of them.

It is a harness, not just a chat window. Drop in a folder and give it a job: Osaurus reads, writes and executes, with agent code running in an isolated sandbox. Build agents that run on their own - scheduled tasks, folder watchers, voice control, browser plugins, iMessage and WhatsApp agents - and set the app up by conversation with the built-in Orchestrator, which shows you exactly what will change before it changes it.

Osaurus ships its own model, Raptor 0.5: 6.3 GB, built for the 8GB and 16GB Macs most people own, and it stays loaded all day. It also speaks the OpenAI, Anthropic and Ollama APIs on one port, so existing SDKs and tools just work, and it connects Ollama, MLX or LM Studio models in one click.

Free, MIT licensed, no account, no telemetry. macOS 15.5 or later, Apple Silicon. Also available via Homebrew: brew install --cask osaurus.

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