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AI agent tools for apple silicon
Short answer: Our top pick for apple silicon: MTPLX, with the highest AgentPick Score (73/100) among tools tagged "apple-silicon". Runners-up: Rapid-MLX (72) and vllm-mlx (71). Compare what each does, its license and how recently it was updated below.
| # | Tool | What it does | Score | Stars | License | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | MTPLX | The fastest way to run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, Qwen 3.8 27B and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B on a Mac: 125 tok/s in OpenCode on an M5 Max, and a 27B model on 16 … | 73/100 | ★ 2.6k | Apache-2.0 | 10 Oct 2026 |
| #2 | Rapid-MLX | Rapid-MLX is an open-source (Apache 2.0) OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible LLM inference server for Apple Silicon, built on MLX, focused on reliable to… | 72/100 | ★ 4k | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #3 | vllm-mlx | High-performance OpenAI and Anthropic compatible LLM inference server for Apple Silicon. Native MLX, continuous batching, multimodal models, MCP tool … | 71/100 | ★ 1.6k | Apache-2.0 | 12 Oct 2026 |
| #4 | Atomic-Chat | Local AI app and inference engine for agents. Run open-weight LLMs locally — private, 100% offline on your computer. Join our Discord: https://discord… | 70/100 | ★ 1.8k | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #5 | mlx-serve | Native LLM inference server for Apple Silicon. OpenAI + Anthropic API compatible. No Python. Zig backend, Swift frontend macOS app with chat, music, v… | 69/100 | ★ 1.9k | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #6 | claude-code-local | Run Claude Code 100% on-device with local AI on Apple Silicon. MLX-native Anthropic-API server. 6 fighters incl. Muse-Glimmer 30B (now multimodal — re… | 63/100 | ★ 3.4k | MIT | 11 Oct 2026 |
| #7 | safari-mcp | Native Safari browser automation for AI agents. 98 tools via AppleScript — zero overhead, keeps logins, runs silently in background. Drop-in alternati… | 62/100 | ★ 217 | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #8 | mlxstudio | MLX Studio - Easiest way to run LLM's on your Mac. All in one engine. | 61/100 | ★ 982 | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #9 | taOS | Self-hosted AI agent OS. Your memory, chat, agents, and files stay on hardware you own, offline by default, cloud by choice. Offline AI memory (taOSmd… | 61/100 | ★ 561 | AGPL-3.0 | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #10 | mlx-dspark | Up to 4× faster LLM decoding on Apple Silicon, lossless. Native MLX port of DeepSeek's DSpark & z-lab's DFlash speculative decoding — Gemma-4, Qwen3.8… | 60/100 | ★ 715 | MIT | 5 Oct 2026 |
| #11 | dory | Dory is the complete local development system for Apple Silicon: Docker, Compose, Kubernetes, virtual machines, and policy-bound agent sandboxes. | 58/100 | ★ 1.6k | GPL-3.0 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| #12 | FluidUse | Local computer use on Apple silicon: on-device typed decisions with laya and form filling with CUA-S1-FORMS, driven through the macOS Accessibility AP… | 56/100 | ★ 512 | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #13 | Klee | A native macOS AI chat app powered by MLX. 100% local inference on Apple Silicon, no cloud required. Built with ShipSwift. | 25/100 | ★ 1.8k | See repo | 20 Mar 2026 |
| #14 | MimikaStudio | MimikaStudio - A local-first application for macOS (Apple Silicon) + Agentic MCP Support | 24/100 | ★ 747 | GPL-3.0 | 1 Apr 2026 |
Source: each project's public GitHub repository (description, stars, license, last push). Listed tools aren't tested or ranked by AgentPick.
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