Mlxstudio

MLX Studio is a free macOS application for running AI models locally on Apple Silicon. It handles chat with any open model, agentic coding, image generation and editing, and model conversion, all on the user's own machine with no API keys, account or subscription. It is built on the vMLX inference engine and targets Macs with M1 through M5 chips, with 8 GB of memory as a minimum and 16 GB or more recommended. The chat interface streams responses with inline tool call indicators and collapsible reasoning blocks, and vision models can analyze images dragged into the conversation. Agentic coding uses more than 20 built in tools with native MCP support, covering file reading and writing, code search, shell commands, git status and diffs, web search and clipboard access. Image generation uses Flux Schnell, Flux Dev and FLUX.2 Klein, with Qwen Image Edit, Flux Kontext and Flux Fill for editing. A model converter turns GGUF files into MLX format. The app can also serve OpenAI compatible and Anthropic compatible APIs, so tools such as Claude Code can connect to it. The app is listed as free forever at $0 and runs on macOS 14.5 or later. The site publishes no paid plans.