apfel
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Apfel filled that role”
“Also see: https://apfel.franzai.com”
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“Apfel[0] has exposed it as a CLI:”
“If you've got a mac, you can use this to play around with it:”
“you can install the apfel[1] stuff if you're on a mac and want a quick available onboard cli option”
Caveats and dissent
“Ok, then it might just be pretty bad at German Sie/Du.”
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From the makers not counted in the ranking
“i maintain https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel”
“thx for the report - a totally valid attack vector i was not aware of before, should be fixed”
“using it in bash scripts that just work without calling home”
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac 5 mentions
- Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows 1 mention
- New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra 1 mention
- uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook 1 mention
- Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor 1 mention
- Apple Core AI Framework 1 mention
Also written as Apfel. Data: apfel.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 13
“Apfel filled that role”
“Also see: https://apfel.franzai.com”
“Apfel[0] has exposed it as a CLI:”
“Apfel is a wrapper app like ChatGPT but using Apple Foundation Models”
“If you've got a mac, you can use this to play around with it:”
“you can install the apfel[1] stuff if you're on a mac and want a quick available onboard cli option”
“apfel is v1.0.4 stable today”
“Ok, then it might just be pretty bad at German Sie/Du.”
“Submitted a PR to prevent its installation on macos versions older than Tahoe(26)”
“This is similar to something I was playing around with last month”
“Cool tool but I don't get why these websites make idiotic claims”
“if you are into local LLMs check out apfel”
“50+ sample results from apple ai https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel/blob/main/EXAMPLES.md”