Arthur-Ficial/apfel

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6325 stars · 243 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

apfel is a Swift CLI tool that exposes Apple's built-in on-device Foundation Models LLM on Apple Silicon Macs as a UNIX-friendly command, an interactive chat REPL, and a local OpenAI-compatible HTTP server. It requires no API keys, no model downloads, and no cloud, running entirely on-device on macOS 26+.

Use cases

• run LLM prompts from the terminal on a Mac without API keys
• pipe text through a local LLM in shell scripts
• serve an OpenAI-compatible local endpoint for OpenAI SDKs
• summarize or translate files on-device for privacy
• get shell commands from natural language with --code
• use tool calling with a free on-device model
• add AI to scripts without cloud costs or data leaving the machine

When to choose

• you're on an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 26+ and Apple Intelligence enabled
• you want zero-config, zero-cost, fully private on-device LLM access
• you need a drop-in OpenAI-compatible local backend for existing SDKs
• you want a composable UNIX tool with JSON output, streaming, and exit codes

When to avoid

• you're on Linux, Windows, or Intel Macs
• you need large context windows beyond 4k-8k tokens
• you need frontier-model quality or multimodal generation beyond basic image understanding
• you need a model you can choose, fine-tune, or swap

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

llm-inference cli http-server chatbot agent-framework large-language-models artificial-intelligence developer-tools apple-ecosystem cli apple-intelligence foundation-models on-device-llm openai-compatible apple-silicon unix-tool tool-calling homebrew command-line macos swift

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