Hedos — A home for every local model on your Mac

Local-first · Private · Open source<br>One native home forevery local model on your Mac<br>Every text, image, and speech model already on your Mac — pulled through Ollama, cached by Hugging Face, or dropped in by hand — discovered and run in one native app built for Apple Silicon. Local-first, private, and free.<br>Download for Apple Silicon4

Private by design<br>Nothing leaves your Mac.<br>The only server here is the one on your desk.

Local & offline<br>Every model runs on your machine. Turn the Wi-Fi off — it still works.

Private<br>Your prompts, outputs, and models never leave your hardware. No telemetry, no accounts.

Native & fast<br>A real Swift app for Apple Silicon on Apple's MLX foundation — no browser wrapper.

Free & open<br>MIT. Free to use, read, and fork. No lock-in, no black box.

Read the source4v0.1.2 · early release

Discovery → Runtime<br>Found where they live. Run however they run best.

Hedos finds every model already on your Mac — no matter who installed it — and serves each one on whatever engine runs it best. Discovered, then run.

hedos · models<br>$ hedos ls<br>NAMEFITTIERRUNTIMESTORECAPABILITIES○Apple Intelligence—nativeapple-foundationbuiltinchat,complete○gemma4runs wellnativeollamaollamachat,complete○Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-4bitruns wellnativemlx-swifthuggingface-cachechat,complete○llava:latestruns wellnativeollamaollamachat,complete,see○SmolLM2-135M-Instruct-Q8_0runs wellnativellama-cppfilechat,complete○FLUX.1-schnellruns wellmanagedpython:mfluxhuggingface-cacheimage○Kokoro-82Mruns wellmanagedpython:kokoro-vmhuggingface-cachespeak○mystery-model—recipe-neededunresolvedfolder—

Every model wears its tier openly — runs natively, via a managed runtime, or needs a recipe. The shelf tells you the truth before you click.

Install<br>Two ways in. Nothing more.

Download the app, or install it with Homebrew. Either way you get the native app and the hedos command-line tool — the app installs the command for you.

DMG<br>A signed build for Apple Silicon. Drag it into Applications and open — it has already scanned your Mac.<br>Download for Apple Silicon

Homebrew<br>Installs the app and links the hedos command in one step.<br>$brew install --cask theiskaa/tap/hedoscopy