Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac
Summary
Apfel is a tool that unlocks Apple's built-in on-device LLM on Apple Silicon Macs, offering a CLI, an OpenAI-compatible HTTP server, and an interactive chat. It emphasizes zero cost, no API keys, and fully local inference, with a 4096-token context window, and provides installation instructions and usage examples as well as related tools in the Apfel family.