The best AI client for Mac
Instantly switch between 300+ AI models, from a single native app.
feature-packed · native performance · private by default
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Everything you need to run AI on your Mac
Best-in-class native macOS app: built using SwiftUI and AppKit.
Familiar UI, Universal Shortcuts Keys, and super-fast Apple M1/M2/M3/M4 performance.
- Your entire AI stack in one app.
- Use OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Azure, Bedrock, and local models in one unified workspace. Switch instantly without touching another app or browser tab.
- Serious workflow tools for power users.
- Work with projects, multi-chat threads, forking, and reusable agents to keep everything structured. BoltAI scales from quick prompts to complex long-running workflows.
- Multimodal intelligence built in.
- Analyze PDFs, screenshots, code, UI captures, and research documents with vision-enabled models. Get clear explanations, summaries, and structured results instantly.
- Fine-grained control over every generation.
- Tune temperature, max tokens, top-p/top-k, penalties, and your system instructions with precision. Get exactly the style and behavior you want from any model.
- Extend with tools, skills, and custom knowledge.
- Use code execution, MCP tools, and attached documents to build richer agents. Automate tasks, generate documents, or extract data without leaving the app.
- Privacy you can trust.
- Chats are stored locally and never used for training, and API keys can be encrypted with your passphrase. BoltAI keeps your work private, secure, and fully under your control.
Work faster anywhere
Bring AI to whatever you’re doing with a single shortcut. BoltAI pops up instantly, ready to explain code, rewrite text, summarize a webpage, or help with whatever’s on your screen — no context switching.
Apple intelligence, done right.
- Global shortcut.
- Open BoltAI instantly over any app with a single keystroke — no context switching, no friction.
- Screenshot → Answer.
- Capture your screen and get explanations, fixes, or summaries in seconds.
- Dictation & inline editing.
- Speak your requests or edit text on the fly for effortless, hands-free productivity.
Everything in one AI workspace
On all your devices
Use BoltAI on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad with the same chats, agents, and projects synced securely through the cloud.
Local models, zero latency
Run powerful LLMs locally via Ollama and LM Studio for fast, private responses without per-token costs.
Privacy built in
Chats are stored locally, API keys can be encrypted with your passphrase, and nothing is ever used to train models.
Extend with tools & MCP
Connect BoltAI to local and remote MCP servers, toggle tools per agent, and keep your AI workflows configurable in code.
{
"mcpServers" : {
"filesystem" : {
"args" : [
"-y",
"@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
"~/Data"
],
"command" : "npx"
}
}
}
“My company provides critical software services for customers such as Spotify, Google, Coinbase, Binance, and many others. We use AI in our workflows (custom developed as well as LLMs) but there was no tool before BoltAI that tightly integrated LLMs into my workflow. I always had to click out, leave my current task, go to ChatGPT or similar and come back which broke my flow. BoltAI makes everything effortless. It's a superpower.”
A powerful workspace for serious users
BoltAI brings together pro tools, advanced models, structured workflows, and deep customization — all in a clean, native Mac experience built for speed.
- Advanced agents
- Build reusable agents with custom instructions, knowledge, and tools for consistent high-quality outputs.
- Context profiles
- Switch between tailored configurations for coding, writing, research, or analysis instantly.
- Multimodal analysis
- Work with screenshots, PDFs, and documents. BoltAI extracts structure, summarizes, and explains.
- Multiple model providers
- Use OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Azure, Bedrock, and local models in one seamless workflow.
- Fork & branch chats
- Explore alternative ideas without losing your original thread. Perfect for comparison and iteration.
- Prompt library
- Save your best prompts once and reuse them anywhere. Build a personal toolkit for recurring tasks.
- Attachment-driven context
- Attach files, research, or reference documents. BoltAI manages context automatically and intelligently.
- Advanced LLM controls
- Fine-tune temperature, token limits, top-p/top-k, and penalties for precise, predictable results.
Latest release
BoltAI v2.13.1
1 day ago
Build 70 The fastest BoltAI release ever shipped. This release focuses on performance across startup, chat switching, and model loading, led by a rebuilt native sidebar that makes chat switching significantly faster and more responsive. It also adds Cloud Account linking for existing license users.
New
- Added Cloud Account linking in Settings, License settings, and startup prompts for existing license users.
- Added support for BoltAI tools when using GitHub Copilot provider setups.
- Added a brand-new sidebar implementation built with AppKit, making chat switching up to 3x faster.
- Added sidebar chat sorting options, including date updated, date created, title, ascending, and descending order.
- Added rich-text-aware workflow output with a new Auto mode, so rich selections can produce styled results while Raw output stays exact.
- Added a resizable workflow preview panel for larger outputs and diff previews.
Improved
- Improved cold start performance so BoltAI opens and becomes ready faster.
- Improved model picker responsiveness when a provider is slow, offline, or loading a large model catalog.
- Reduced chat runtime overhead for providers with very large model catalogs.
- Sidebar responsiveness is better when switching chats with clicks, keyboard shortcuts, and command-number navigation.
- Sidebar actions such as archive, delete, favorite, move, drag and drop, and context menus continue to work more reliably in the native sidebar.
- Improved sidebar row alignment and favorite-button positioning, especially for chats shown inside folders.
- Improved native sidebar multi-selection feedback, including clearer selected-item counts and context-menu behavior.
- Renaming chats is now more predictable: use double-click, or press Return or Enter on a selected chat.
- The inline rename field now has better sizing, font matching, and alignment.
- Settings startup behavior is smoother when loading model data.
- Connector reliability is better when linking or switching cloud accounts.
- Cloud Sync settings now show a clearer sign-in and sign-up experience for cloud accounts.
- Cloud Account and Cloud Sync messaging is clearer for desktop license users.
- Error messages are clearer when encrypted API-key storage is locked.
- Provider switching is more reliable because incompatible conversation state is cleaned up automatically.
- Improved MCP handling for more reliable tool startup, cleanup, and account switching.
- Apple voice recording now uses the same inline recording UI as other voice input providers.
- Workflow previews now render Auto and Rich Text output more naturally, with tighter Markdown spacing and a better layout for long previews.
- Workflow preview windows now make their active and inactive state easier to see, and remember the preview size you last used.
Fixed
- Fixed Featurebase MCP authentication sometimes asking users to sign in repeatedly.
- Fixed chat ordering so service or configuration changes do not bump unrelated chats, while new message activity still keeps recency accurate.
- Fixed cleanup issues for deleted chats inside folders.
- Fixed Gemini image-preview chat models being incorrectly blocked.
- Fixed function-key shortcuts such as F18 and F19 causing menu issues.
- Fixed Save and Regenerate in Instant Chat targeting the wrong chat in some cases.
- Fixed Instant Chat sometimes bringing the main BoltAI window forward unexpectedly.
- Fixed a clipped tooltip on the first message action button.
- Fixed sidebar commands sometimes applying to the wrong chat.
- Fixed selecting chats from a folder detail view so the sidebar and inspector stay in sync with the opened chat.
- Fixed sidebar search spacing on different macOS versions.
- Fixed a startup issue where the sidebar could briefly appear empty.
- Fixed inspector compatibility on macOS 13.
- Fixed favorite actions and drag previews in the native sidebar.
- Fixed native sidebar context-menu actions such as favorite, archive, and trash applying to stale or incorrect selection state.
- Fixed archived or trashed chats remaining visually selected after they were removed from the active chat list.
- Fixed inserted prompts using the wrong text color in the composer.
- Fixed workflow shortcuts sometimes not registering when account or workflow data finished loading after startup.
- Fixed voice transcripts sometimes enabling Send while the visible composer still looked empty.
- Fixed workflow Apply: Copy to Clipboard sometimes copying raw Markdown instead of rich text when Auto output was used with a rich-text source.
- Fixed Rich Text workflow previews showing raw Markdown even though the copied result was correctly formatted.
