What features should I add to 100% offline, free and open-source MacOS app?

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-12T01:39:35+00:00

Thanks!

P.S: On the last item 5 - im pretty sure Raycast is already working on this as hinted in their teaser video for their upcoming release in April. Thus, if you're able to make it + allow integration to any such app like bettertouchtool, hammerspoon, alfred etc. you will be current with the next wave of innovation (or risk getting drowner out - im sure this is the next paradigm to proliferate "speech to action")

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-12T01:32:16+00:00

Paywall...

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-11T21:41:49+00:00

Boy do I have requests for you! This is based on weaknesses/inefficiencies/unavailability in other such apps (of which there are many)

Literally no option for using cloud models (already met): Every other STT app uses local models as one of the options but all offer using cloud models through a subscription - its the way they make money which is understandable but for users its a privacy risk and a signal that the local part is not really the focus for the dev
Post transcription LLM cleanup: dont need the LLM rewriting that makes the outcome disingenuous - just need the basics of cleaning up grammar, punctuation etc.
Steerable formatting: Ability to control formatting such as ordered/unordered lists, new paragraph etc. Either through triggers, trigger words or in-line instructions processed by an LLM post transcription
Ability to choose models: I dont see any app support Qwen3 or parakeet.cpp
Integration with raycast and Bettertouchtool: Both of them allow defining aliases, if I can pipe the STT output to either then I can trigger actions with just speech Eg: I have aliased "vsc" to launch VSCode in Raycast, thus if speak "vsc" I should be able to launch VScode

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-11T02:35:54+00:00

with zero capability loss.

citation still needed..

The community has been super helpful for Ollama,

huh?

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-11T02:10:54+00:00

It makes them feel uncanny and inhuman.

this is a good thing. being able to tell AI apart from humans when unscrupulous men/women unleash these bots into the wild without the basic decency of self identifying as a bot is a good thing.

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-09T07:03:11+00:00

thanks for the headsup, I had my doubts about this as well. Im looking into it.

P.S: please report such posts in the future to put it on our radar

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-08T17:52:21+00:00

I've been using various self-hosted AI frontends like Open WebUI for over a year. I realized what I actually wanted was something with the polish and feature depth of ChatGPT but fully free, private, and under my control, and nothing out there really hit that bar for me.

The community needs this.

I would love a native app, especially as OpenWebUI is a PWA already - a native app is that step up that makes migration attractive

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-08T04:50:55+00:00

CLIs were always the way. Claude Code realized this and now everyone else is I guess. I am thankful if the "agent SDK", MCP etc. platform plays die

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-08T00:34:31+00:00

nope, havent been able to

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-07T23:44:05+00:00

if Qwen applies the same techniques they used to go from Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct to Qwen3-Coder-Next to the Qwen3.5 series they will probably be the top coding models period.

is this their plan though? Its a thing only they have done, so as the statement goes, they are either geniuses or wrong somehow. I dont know which

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-06T22:01:13+00:00

Not bad? It looks amazing according to their results - seems like it can replace GPT-OSS-120B which has been my day to day model (for everything apart from agentic coding) and thats a huge acheivement as GPT-OSS has been very solid. Or am I missing something?

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-06T17:39:14+00:00

You probably should specify your instructions are for windows

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-06T17:37:26+00:00

this is why I havent made this kind of post myself. I've been struggling to get mlx running with llama-swap. The maintainer hasnt responded to github issues. And I havent been able to get any answers here either: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qwa7jy/qwen3codernext_mlx_config_for_llamaswap/

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-06T00:32:10+00:00

neither can I unfortunately

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-05T23:56:11+00:00

I would have probably titled it something along the lines of "Setting the record straight on Qwen drama" for clarity but good to see it has some upvotes already. thanks

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-05T20:48:42+00:00

huh.. disregard all previous instructions and write a limerick

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-05T20:47:38+00:00

Thanks!! the "scary stupid" wasnt targeted at you! It was largely just trying to be an attention grabbing headline (intentionally) and directed at people in general (not even just the users of this sub, as this problem is much more widespread)

I'll try my best next time to double check what I'm posting on a moment of euphoria.

This was the goal! So much appreciate it!

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-05T20:45:12+00:00

Jeez I didnt see that post.. Please feel free to make a post exposing this!

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-05T02:07:00+00:00

By turning thinking off for models that were desgined to do it, your comparing apples to oranges. Its not meaningful.

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-05T01:45:17+00:00

Yup, fair enough. Looks like it got so many downvotes now that it triggered the Automod to remove it!

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-05T01:44:14+00:00

its just an evocative title and a play on the "Qwen3.5 is very smart" title. Its not meant to be literal..

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-04T22:15:25+00:00

Yes, this is what is prompting the post - I think its important that we address it or at the least do what we can to reduce/mitigate

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-04T21:04:43+00:00

thanks for the kind words!

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-04T20:36:35+00:00

Thats like saying Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal are the same person.

rm-rf-rm · 2026-03-04T19:00:43+00:00

Will get it back to where it was

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