Open-sourced a web client that lets any device use Apple's on-device AI
Details
- External ID
- 47247881
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Open-sourced a web client that lets any device use Apple's on-device AI
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 4, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5781057810578106
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I use Claude every day but there are things I will not type into a cloud service. I have a Mac with Apple Silicon running Apple Foundation Models locally and privately. But I was not always at my Mac. So we built Perspective Intelligence Web. One Mac runs Perspective Server. Any device on your network opens a browser and chats with Apple Intelligence through it. Phone, Windows laptop, Chromebook, Linux machine. Streaming responses, token by token. Nothing leaves your network. MIT License. Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind. Full writeup: https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/i-opened-claude-and-then-...
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- web client for apple on-device ai
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight local server wrapping Apple's local inference APIs or CLI tools, exposed to a standard mobile-friendly web UI over the local network.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Concerns raised: AI quality/capability
Competitors
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Launched 49 days after the earliest competitor.
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