SMRTR AIMar 9, 2025lobste.rs

Sidekick: Self-contained Local LLM application for macOS

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Sidekick is a local AI chat app for Macs that accesses personal files and websites to provide context-aware responses. It features offline operation, support for multiple reasoning models, image generation, code interpretation, and tools like a detector and diagrammer, all without requiring configuration or cloud services.

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