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Nativ wraps MLX in a full macOS desktop application, similar in shape to LM Studio.

Nativ is a new macOS desktop app that packages MLX into a chat interface and local API server, analogous to LM Studio. ✦ AI generated

author · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-21 · original ↗

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I'm really excited about his new project, which wraps MLX in a full macOS desktop application. It's similar in shape to LM Studio, providing both a chat interface and a localhost API server for accessing models.

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✳ LM Studio ✳ MLX ✳ Nativ

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Prince Canuma developed MLX-VLM, an excellent Python library for running vision-LLMs using MLX on a Mac.author · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 60%

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extends → The Nativ app automatically detected MLX models already present in my Hugging Face cache directory.author · Simon Willison's Weblog