Perspective Studio

Your LLM playground on Apple devices.

Perspective Studio is a free, open-source macOS app for running open-source AI models locally on your Mac. No cloud. No API keys. No subscriptions. Just you and the model, running on Apple Silicon.

Built with SwiftUI and MLX Swift by Techopolis.

Features

• Browse thousands of models from mlx-community on Hugging Face
• Download any model directly to your Mac with progress tracking
• Chat with models entirely on-device using MLX Swift
• See which models fit comfortably in your Mac's memory
• Text-to-speech playground with MLX Audio and VibeVoice
• Automatic conversation summarization to stay within context limits
• Beginner-friendly mode that hides technical jargon
• Fully accessible with VoiceOver and keyboard navigation

Requirements

• macOS 26 or later
• Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later)
• Xcode 26 (to build from source)

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Techopolis/Perspective-Studio.git
   

2. Open perspective studio.xcodeproj in Xcode
3. Build and run (Cmd+R)
4. Pick a model from the Discover tab and start chatting

Built With

• MLX Swift
• MLX Swift LM
• Swift Transformers
• Hugging Face Hub

Accessibility

Perspective Studio is fully accessible. VoiceOver, keyboard navigation, and screen reader support are built in from day one. If you find an accessibility issue, please report it using our accessibility issue template.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

All UI contributions must be tested with VoiceOver. This is not optional.

License

MIT. See LICENSE for details.

Related Projects

• Perspective Server
• Perspective CLI
• Perspective Web