The AI models your browser can't run, now on your Mac
Chat, summarize and rewrite with open models up to 35B parameters, running on your own Apple Silicon. No account, no cloud, no usage meter.
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14-day money-back guarantee. Your license key is shown right after checkout and stays on your purchase page; one key works on up to 3 Macs.
What a Mac unlocks
Every tool on pocketweb.tools already runs on your device. A browser tab tops out at about 4 GB of memory; the Mac app uses your Mac's actual memory, so the lineup goes where a tab cannot.
What's inside
On your Mac, not off it: the app keeps a run history in its own Application Support folder, and for the tools that produce text (transcripts, extracted pages, what you asked Speak to read) that history holds the text itself, readable only by your user account. The License screen shows how much space it uses and clears all of it in one click.
Chat with a local model, even with Wi-Fi off
Chat, summarize and rewrite with open models up to 35B parameters. No account, no usage meter.
Transcribe anything, including system audio
Files of any length, your microphone, or a live call. Speaker labels and subtitles included.
Cut long videos into captioned clips
Drop a two-hour podcast and get vertical clips with captions, ready to post.
Edit a video by editing its transcript
Delete words from the transcript to cut them from the video. Ums and long pauses go in one click.
Models on demand
Download only the models you want. They stay on disk until you delete them.
Every layer on the GPU
The whole model runs on your Mac's GPU, so replies start fast.
Upscale photos at full resolution
The real file, not a 512 pixel copy. Whole folders, HEIC and RAW.
Extract text from PDFs and scans
Screenshots, PDFs and folders into text, markdown with tables, or a searchable PDF.
Remove backgrounds at full size
Cutouts that keep hair, fur and glass. Or click the one thing you want cut out.
Speak any text, in your voice if you like
Ten languages, no character limit, and a voice cloned from a few seconds of audio.
And every small tool from the website
Word counter, converters, JSON, Base64, passwords and the rest, without opening a browser tab.
Whatever ships next is a free update for every buyer. No dates are promised; the changelog is the record.
The lineup
Download only what you want. The app checks your Mac's memory and marks which tiers fit before you download anything.
Qwen3.8 27B
The largest dense model in the lineup. Best for writing, code and long documents.
Qwen3.6 35B‑A3B
35B of knowledge with only 3B active per token, so replies stream faster than the flagship.
See RAM, speed and settingsQwen3.5 9B
The fastest replies in the lineup, and a clear step up from the 2B model the browser tools run.
See RAM, speed and settingsGemma 4 12B
Google's 12B instruct model. Pick it when you want a second model to compare answers.
See RAM, speed and settingsBonsai 27B (1‑bit)
A 27B model squeezed to under 4 GB with 1‑bit weights. Trades some accuracy for size and speed.
See RAM, speed and settingsQwen3.5 2B
Small and instant. The right first model while a bigger one downloads.
The default for files: 25 European languages with word-level timestamps.
99 languages with auto-detect, plus translation into English.
See RAM, speed and settingsBuilt for live transcription: words appear as they are spoken, in 32 languages.
Adds who-spoke-when labels to any transcript, up to four speakers.
Finds the ums and uhs between words, so Remove fillers in Edit cuts them cleanly. English only.
The default for photos saved from the web or a phone.
The pick when 4x is more than you need or the input is already large.
The classic upscaler, and the safer choice for big, already-sharp photos.
Tuned for anime and illustration: clean lines, flat colour, no photo grain.
The default for documents: clean markdown, wide tables kept cell for cell, LaTeX formulas.
Quicker on pages that are mostly table: markdown with tables and LaTeX formulas.
The multilingual choice: 100 languages, with tables and formulas kept.
Text to speech in ten languages, and a voice copied from a few seconds of reference audio.
The quick pick for automatic background removal. The lightest download.
The default: cleaner edges and a better sense of what the subject is.
Soft edges for portraits, pets and anything translucent: hair, glass, smoke.
The default for click-to-pick. Add points to include or exclude parts, or draw a box.
A larger picker. Try it when SAM 2.1 misses part of the subject.
Refines the edge of any mask at the photo's full resolution. Runs after either mode.
Every model here was chosen because its weights may be redistributed commercially. The full license texts ship inside the app.
Pay once. That is the whole model.
Launch price. Back to $99 in:
Already have a key? Download the app. It asks for the key the first time it opens.
14-day money-back guarantee. Your license key is shown right after checkout and stays on your purchase page; one key works on up to 3 Macs.
Payments are handled by Polar as merchant of record, so VAT and sales tax are sorted at checkout. For a refund within 14 days, email support@pocketweb.tools from the address you bought with; we issue it through Polar.
The only network calls it makes
Six. Listed in full, so you can hold us to it.
Nothing else. Your files, chats, transcripts and recordings never leave your Mac. Turn Wi-Fi off after a model has downloaded and everything keeps working.
License activation and checks
Entering your key registers this Mac with Polar: the key, a device label, a hashed hardware id, the app version and the macOS version. After that, at most one check a day, sending only the key and this Mac's activation id.
Updates
On launch the app asks pocketweb.tools whether a newer version exists. It sends the version you run and your chip architecture, nothing else. No license key travels with it.
Model downloads
Weights download from pocketweb.tools once, verified against a checksum. The request names the file and carries your license key and activation id.
Exchange rates
Opening the currency converter, or writing a currency line in the math notepad, asks Coinbase for today's rates. No key, no identifier, nothing you typed.
Anonymous usage data
How each run ended: the screen, the model, finished or failed, the kind of error, how long it took, plus your app version, macOS version, chip and memory size. No key, no id for you or this Mac. One switch in Settings turns it off.
Reports you send
Pressing Report an issue or Send feedback sends what you wrote, your reply address if you gave one, and the facts the dialog lists before you send.
Requirements
- Chip
- Apple Silicon (M1 or later)
- macOS
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later; macOS 14.6 or later to capture system audio
- Memory
- 8 GB minimum, 16 GB recommended, 32 GB for the 27B flagship
- Disk
- About 70 MB for the app, and about 330 MB of memory with no model loaded; each model is its download size, from 1.3 GB to 22.4 GB
Intel Macs are not supported: these models need unified memory and Metal to run at a usable speed.
Frequently asked questions
- Do I need a license to use it?
- Yes. The download is free, and the app asks for your license key the first time it opens. One key unlocks every tool and every model. If it is not for you, email support@pocketweb.tools within 14 days of buying and you get every cent back, no questions asked.
- Does anything work without a key?
- No. Until a key is activated the app only shows its License screen. After that it works offline for as long as you like. While your Mac is online the key is re-checked at most once a day; being offline never locks the app.
- What does free lifetime updates mean?
- Every future version of the app, including new models and new tools, at no extra cost, with no renewal. It is a promise about price, not about timing: we do not commit to a release schedule. The changelog shows what has shipped and when.
- Which Macs does it run on?
- Any Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) on macOS 14 Sonoma or later; capturing the audio other apps play needs macOS 14.6 or later. Intel Macs are not supported because these models do not run usefully on them. 8 GB of memory runs the smallest tier, 16 GB is the sweet spot, and the 27B flagship needs 32 GB.
- Does it need an internet connection?
- Only for four things: activating and re-checking your license, checking for and installing updates, downloading a model, and fetching today's exchange rates if you use the currency converter or a currency line in the math notepad. Everything else, including every chat, runs on your Mac and works with Wi-Fi off.
- How do refunds work?
- Email support@pocketweb.tools from the address you bought with, within 14 days of purchase, and we refund the full amount through Polar. No questions asked. The key stops working once the refund goes through.
- How many Macs can I use it on?
- One key activates up to 3 Macs. You can deactivate a Mac from inside the app or from your purchase page to free a slot for another one.
- Where do my chats go?
- Nowhere. Chats, audio, transcripts and photos stay on your Mac and are never sent to us or anyone else. The app does report anonymous usage data, such as which tool ran and whether it worked, never what was in it, and you can switch that off in Settings. The privacy section above lists every network call it makes.
- Is it a native Mac app?
- The engines are native: a Rust core running llama.cpp for chat and for the document models, transcribe.cpp for speech, both on Metal with the whole model on the GPU, ONNX Runtime through Core ML for the image upscalers and the click-to-pick models, and on the CPU for the video editor's pause detector and word aligner, Apple's Core ML framework for the background-removal models, Apple's Vision framework for instant text recognition, instant cutouts and face tracking, AVFoundation with the VideoToolbox hardware encoder for video, and Core Audio for microphone and system-audio capture. The interface is the same one you use on pocketweb.tools, shown in a system web view. That is what keeps the app to about 70 MB, and about 330 MB of memory before you load anything, while letting web and Mac share one design.
- Why not the Mac App Store?
- The app is signed and notarized by Apple like any other download, but sold directly. That keeps the price at $99 instead of paying a store commission, and it means multi-gigabyte model files are not squeezed through the store's sandbox rules.
- Can I use the models commercially?
- Yes. The chat models are Apache 2.0; the speech models are CC BY 4.0 (Parakeet), MIT (Whisper), OpenMDW 1.1 (Nemotron) and the NVIDIA Open Model License (speaker labels); the video editor's word aligner is Apache 2.0 (wav2vec2) and its pause detector MIT (Silero VAD); the background-removal and cutout models are MIT (BiRefNet, ViTMatte) and Apache 2.0 (SAM 2.1, EfficientViT-SAM); the caption fonts Clip burns into videos are SIL Open Font License. All of them allow commercial use, the app ships every license text, and we add no restrictions of our own to what you make with them.
Track record
Runs on your Mac. Pay once.
$99$49 once, free lifetime updates.
Already have a key? Download the app. It asks for the key the first time it opens.
14-day money-back guarantee. Your license key is shown right after checkout and stays on your purchase page; one key works on up to 3 Macs.