Local
Super excited to launch our new app Local today. What we’ve learned at Base Compute over the last months is that running AI directly on your laptop or workstation gives you maximum privacy and it’s free, but it’s also a massive headache to configure. So we’ve decided what matters is making the experience completely frictionless for users. Local analyses the hardware of your laptop, optimises the AI for it, and recommends the best models for your specific device. It let’s you do what you’re doing with cloud AI already, just for free and on your own machine: Chatting with PDF’s, Recording and…
Local launched on August 21, 2026 with 107 votes, #336 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Local is a macOS app that runs fully private AI directly on your own machine. We built it for completely frictionless setup. It tunes itself to your hardware, so chat, coding agents and meeting notes run up to 5.4x faster on the same hardware, without your data ever leaving the device. No cloud. No accounts. No cost. "Office Mode" let's you run AI on the fastest machine in the office and every laptop can connect to it.
Local is a macOS app that runs AI on your own machine. It tunes itself to your chip with BaseRT, so chat, coding and meeting notes run faster on the same hardware, without your work leaving the device.
Local : AI that runs on your machine. No cloud, no accounts, zero $ per token. Ask questions, draft writing, drop in a PDF and get it summarised. Point it at a project and it reads, edits and runs code in place. Your codebase is never uploaded. A short list of lasting facts about you, all of it visible and editable. Mark one sensitive and it never leaves the Mac. Local reads your chip and memory, then recommends what to run. Tokens, speed per model, and what the same work would have cost through a cloud API. One device does the work, the office shares it. Run the big model on the most capable machine you own and reach it from Local on every laptop in the room. Some jobs want a frontier…from basecompute.co
In the maker’s words, at launch
Super excited to launch our new app Local today. What we’ve learned at Base Compute over the last months is that running AI directly on your laptop or workstation gives you maximum privacy and it’s free, but it’s also a massive headache to configure. So we’ve decided what matters is making the experience completely…
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Local text, image, video, music and 3D from one CLI, no PythonJul 2026 · github.com · ▲16Hi HN! I'm the author of mere.run a local first inference runtime built around an installable CLI. I believe that whenever possible we should use the stuff we already own (like our Mac laptops, decent machines gathering dust, our gaming PC) and the limited electrical power we have easy access to, like the socket in the wall next to most of us. We shouldn't have to send our data to the cloud hoping some T&C will prevent it from being used in a way that we'd regret. Most of the local AI solutions are technical, involved, and land a curious body in some package hell. People are optimizing for…
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