Desktop apps
Apps you install and open on your own computer. This page lists 11 desktop apps; the latest additions are Handy, Orkas and Cindy. Open any project to see what it lets you do, what its creator says you need and its original source.
Projects to explore
- starnet Watch your AI agents work inside a living pixel-art space station
A local-first desktop app that gives each of your AI agents a character at its own workstation in a pixel-art space station, with the station's rooms and activity reflecting what the agents are actually doing.
- OpenCode let an AI agent read, plan and edit code in your terminal
Ask an AI agent to explore your codebase, plan changes and write code from your terminal or a desktop app.
- Handy Dictate into any text field with offline speech-to-text
Handy lets you press a shortcut, speak, and see your words appear in any text field, transcribed on your own computer.
- cc-switch Switch AI model providers across your coding tools in one click
CC Switch is a desktop app that manages provider settings for a dozen-plus AI coding tools — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and others — so switching from one model provider to another does not mean hand-editing JSON, TOML or YAML configuration files.
- awesome-mac Browse a huge, organized directory of Mac software by category
Find Mac apps for a job, such as a screen recorder, a Markdown editor or an AI assistant, by browsing one long list sorted into categories.
- Lap A private photo manager that keeps every picture on your own disk
Lap is an open-source, offline-first photo manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux: a privacy-focused alternative to cloud photo services with no forced upload and no subscription.
- Cindy Let an AI agent finish tasks in your apps and files
Hand tasks to an AI agent that runs on your own computer and uses your files and apps; for people who want one agent across Claude Code and Codex.
- Orkas Hand goals to a desktop team of AI agents
Give Orkas a goal and its AI agents plan, research, write and build the work on your computer.
- Orca Run several coding agents side by side and compare them
A desktop app that runs more than one AI coding agent at a time, each in its own separate copy of your project, so you can send the same request to all of them and keep the answer you like best.
- ArtCraft Stage AI images and videos in 2D and 3D before you generate
Pose characters, set up a 3D scene and camera, then generate images or video from it.
- PI-Desktop Give your coding agent a desktop of its own, with your model
A desktop workspace built specifically for AI coding agents, rather than an agent bolted into an editor or a terminal.
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