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Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

560 points • by franze • today at 9:15 AM • 126 comments • view on HN

Github: https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel

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adettya009 • today at 3:59 PM

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animanoir • today at 1:52 PM

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skrun_dev • today at 9:26 AM

Notes.app handles big notebooks without choking on storage?

alwinaugustin • today at 1:08 PM

Read Austria as Australia and thought this as an April fool

ramon156 • today at 11:37 AM

Cool tool but I don't get why these websites make idiotic claims

> $0 cost

No kidding.

Why not just link the GH Github: https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel

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m-s-y • today at 1:02 PM

A serious project would do the work to be delivered via the native homebrew repository, not a “selfhosted” one.

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nottorp • today at 1:08 PM

> Starting with macOS 26 (Tahoe), every Apple Silicon Mac includes a language model as part of Apple Intelligence.

So you have to put up with the low contrast buggy UI to use that.

xp84 • today at 4:36 PM

> Referenced from: <32818E2F-CB45-3506-A35B-AAF8BDDFFFCE> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/apfel/0.6.25/bin/apfel (built for macOS 26.0 which is newer than running OS)

This actually looks really neat. I'll have to bookmark this for whenever I'm dragged kicking and screaming into the abomination that is "Tahoe."