Native Apple chat client for your private LLMs

What it does

Enchanted is an open-source Swift app that connects to privately hosted language models through Ollama, offering a familiar chat interface across macOS, iOS, and visionOS. It stores conversation history locally, renders markdown, handles image attachments and voice input, and provides a global macOS Spotlight panel for quick access. The app routes all chat inference to your own hardware, keeping conversations off commercial cloud APIs.

The interesting bit

While plenty of web UIs exist for local LLMs, Enchanted treats Apple platforms as first-class citizens, including Vision Pro and offline operation when paired with a local Ollama instance. The attention to native details—text-to-speech readouts, system-wide prompt templates, and a Spotlight launcher—pushes it beyond a basic wrapper toward a drop-in alternative to the official ChatGPT app.

Key highlights

• Native macOS, iOS, and visionOS support with dark/light mode and markdown rendering
• Multimodal input: image attachments and voice prompts
• Local conversation history stored on-device; works offline with a local server
• Global macOS Spotlight panel (Ctrl+Cmd+K) for instant access anywhere
• Open source Swift codebase, distributed via the App Store

Caveats

• Requires running your own Ollama server; no built-in model hosting or cloud fallback
• Connecting to a local machine from mobile requires tunneling or public network exposure, which adds friction

Verdict

Grab it if you already run Ollama and want a polished, native client across your Apple devices. Look elsewhere if you need cross-platform support beyond Apple’s ecosystem.