# Apple Intelligence API for Mac

Canonical page: https://macbase.app/apps/apple-intelligence-api

> Local OpenAI-compatible API server for Apple Intelligence

- Price: Free
- Requires: macOS 26 Tahoe or later
- Languages: English
- Apple silicon: runs natively
- Notarized by Apple: yes
- Open source: yes (https://github.com/tanu360/apple-intelligence-api), 39 GitHub stars
- Developer: Tarun
- Categories: [Local AI & LLMs](https://macbase.app/categories/local-ai-llms), [Developer Tools](https://macbase.app/categories/developer-tools), [AI Chat & Assistants](https://macbase.app/categories/ai-chat-assistants)

## About

Apple Intelligence API is a SwiftUI Mac app that exposes Apple’s on-device Foundation Models through an OpenAI-compatible API. It unifies base, deterministic, and creative model variants under local endpoints for use with curl, the OpenAI Python client, or other compatible tools.

The app processes requests on-device without external servers and supports chat completions, streaming responses, model listing, status checks, and configurable server settings. It requires macOS 26 or later, Apple Intelligence enabled, and a compatible Apple system.

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## Get it

- Download: https://github.com/tanu360/apple-intelligence-api/releases/latest
- Website: https://github.com/tanu360/apple-intelligence-api
- Source: https://github.com/tanu360/apple-intelligence-api

Listed by [Tarun](https://macbase.app/@tanu360).

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