Silica
Your private local AI workspace for Mac
Silica launched on June 25, 2026 with 5 votes, #2,466 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Silica is a Mac app for AI that stays on your machine — not another tool that sends your chats and files to the cloud. Chat with local models, transcribe voice, generate images, run agents, and build presentations on your Mac. Built for Apple Silicon. No account for the basics. Web search only if you want it. Everything unlocked in beta. After beta, the local core stays free. Some advanced features may become Pro later — we'll be clear before anything changes. Free beta at silicaai.tech.
Chat, transcribe voice, generate images, run agents, and create presentations entirely on your Mac. Private by default. No cloud required. Free beta.
SilicaAI is a local-first AI app for macOS that lets you chat, transcribe voice, generate images, create presentations, take call notes, and run agents—without handing your data to the cloud. A full AI workspace running natively on Apple Silicon — fast, private, and beautifully integrated with macOS. Multi-turn conversations powered by local models, running cleanly on your Mac. Draft, edit, and iterate side by side on a native canvas. On-device speech-to-text using Whisper. Capture ideas, meetings, and call notes instantly — without the cloud. Beta access to autonomous agents capable of searching, researching, and using tools securely on your machine. Generate Flux or Stable Diffusion…from silicaai.tech
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