Audience
Developers, researchers, hackers, and users seeking to run, inspect, customize, and connect open AI models locally for private multimodal and coding workflows
About Nativ
Nativ is a 100% open-source macOS app for running OpenAI models locally on Apple Silicon, putting frontier intelligence directly on your desk with no accounts or cloud required. It provides a clean chat interface with streaming responses, Markdown, code highlighting, image input, and per-message performance metrics, with every response generated locally. A curated model library includes open models from teams such as Google, Cohere, and Liquid AI, while Nativ recommends models suited to the hardware in your Mac. Built on MLX-VLM and tuned for M-series unified memory and Metal, it runs models without wrappers or translation layers. Live telemetry exposes tokens per second, memory pressure, thermal state, and time to first token so users can see what is actually happening during inference. Nativ supports language, vision, video, code, and audio workflows, including chatting with LLMs, captioning images, summarizing video, autocompleting code, transcribing audio, and generating speech.
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Nativ Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Nativ work with?
Nativ works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Nativ support in their product?
Nativ supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Nativ offer?
Nativ offers support via online.
Q: What other applications or services does Nativ integrate with?
Nativ integrates with: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cohere, Google, Hermes Agent, Liquid AI, Markdown, OpenAI, OpenCode, and Pi Agent.
Q: What type of training does Nativ provide?
Nativ provides training in the form of documentation.
Q: How much does Nativ cost?
Pricing for Nativ starts at Free.
