M1K3 is a native AI companion that runs entirely on your Mac. Local models, live voice, a knowledge graph that remembers everything — and a network cable it never asks for.
Everything below runs inside one sandboxed app on Apple Silicon. Pull the ethernet cable — M1K3 doesn't notice.
Gemma 4 and Qwen 3 on MLX-Swift with Apple Foundation Models handling fast turns. Pick your brain in Settings and switch any time.
mlx-swift · gemma-4 · qwen3 · afmStreaming speech recognition and natural speech out, with karaoke-style read-along highlighting. Talk to it like it's in the room — because it is.
whisperkit · streaming stt + ttsImport documents and M1K3 builds a private knowledge graph with semantic search. Ask questions; get answers grounded in your own files.
rag · bge embeddings · ftsConsent-gated call recording with on-device transcription, speaker-grouped summaries, and encrypted persistence. Your calls become searchable knowledge.
encrypted · keychain · consent-firstA built-in ReAct agent with real tools — web search, page reading, your knowledge base — behind a privacy toggle. Web off means web off.
local agent · tool calls · privacy toggleM1K3 exposes your knowledge to Claude and other agents over the Model Context Protocol. Your second brain, available to your other AIs — locally.
mcp · 15 tools · 127.0.0.1:4242Not an Electron wrapper. Not a webview. A SwiftUI app with Liquid Glass, RealityKit avatars, and Metal-accelerated inference — built for macOS Tahoe and nothing else.
No. M1K3 runs entirely on your Mac — inference, voice, embeddings, and storage are all on-device. Zero bytes of your conversations, documents, or calls go to any server. The optional web-search tool is off by default and clearly toggled.
Three brains, all local: Apple Foundation Models for instant answers, Qwen 3 4B, and Gemma 4 12B for deep reasoning — via MLX-Swift on Apple Silicon. Switch in Settings any time.
Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 26 Tahoe. M1K3 is a native SwiftUI app with Metal-accelerated inference — not an Electron wrapper.
Ollama is a local model server; ChatGPT is a cloud service. M1K3 is a complete on-device companion: local models plus live voice, a knowledge graph over your documents, encrypted call memory, an agent with tools, and an MCP server — one sandboxed native app.
Yes. M1K3 ships an MCP server exposing search_knowledge, list_documents, and get_document — Claude and other MCP clients can query your local knowledge base, locally.
Free for humans, forever — and open source, made by Round Tower in Ireland. No account, no subscription, no telemetry. Download the signed Mac app, join the TestFlight beta, or build from source today. If M1K3 earns a place on your Mac, there's an optional GitHub Sponsors page — it funds development, never gates features.
M1K3 for Mac is ready to download. Free for humans, forever — run it on your own Mac, or build it from source.
Free, and staying that way. If it earns a place on your Mac, you can sponsor its development — optional, never nagged.