v0.1.2

Local 0.1.2

Local 0.1.2 puts thinking under your control, keeps long coding sessions
alive, adds a recoverable Trash for your sessions, and shows at a glance
which sessions are still working.

Highlights

• Choose how much a model thinks. A Thinking control beside the model
  selector sets the reasoning level for your next reply, for models whose
  chat template supports it: off, on, or a level such as low, medium and
  extra high. Local reads the available levels and the model's own default
  from the loaded model itself, remembers the level you last used with each
  model, and says plainly when a model has no thinking controls or is still
  loading.
• Coding sessions that go the distance. The engine now sizes the context
  window itself, and window sizes pinned in earlier releases are cleared
  once so they can't hold a session back. When a long session fills its
  window, the coding agent summarizes its earlier steps and carries on
  instead of going quiet, and the transcript shows that work as it happens.
  Failures say what went wrong.
• A recoverable Trash for sessions. Deleting a chat, coding session or
  meeting moves it to the Trash, with Undo and thirty days to change your
  mind. Restore one, restore all, delete permanently, or empty the Trash.
  Select many at once with Command-A, Shift-click and the Delete key.
  Coding project folders and their files always stay on disk.
• See what's still working. In the sidebar's recent list and on the
  sessions page, a session's icon breathes while it's generating and stays
  lit when a reply, a coding turn or a meeting write-up finished while you
  were looking elsewhere, until you open it.
• Math that covers what models actually write. Chat math now typesets
  far more LaTeX: matrix and alignment environments, cases, cancels and
  boxed answers, labelled arrows, modular arithmetic, colored expressions,
  and a much wider range of symbols. Primes and native fractions survive
  intact, and display math wider than the transcript scrolls, with a cue at
  its edge.
• Runs on macOS 14 and newer. Chat and Coding work on any Apple Silicon
  Mac running macOS 14 or later. Recording a meeting needs macOS 26, whose
  Speech framework provides the on-device transcription; on older systems
  Meetings says so.

Fixes and polish

• Thinking blocks use the same Markdown renderer and animations as replies,
  sit where they belong, and keep consistent spacing in saved conversations.
• One signal per activity: the status line steps aside when a reasoning
  header or a running tool row already shows the work, and reasoning
  headers count tokens live and keep their total.
• Coding tool rows say what a call does, such as the file and its size, the
  number of edits, the search pattern or the address, with the tool's name
  set apart from its arguments, and without a progress counter that isn't
  really counting.
• Answers in coding transcripts get breathing room from the tool runs and
  reasoning headers around them.
• Every completed coding response has a Copy control, including older
  sessions saved without statistics.
• A finished reply shows a placeholder while it's still being parsed instead
  of a blank.

Requirements

• Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 14 or newer. Recording meetings needs macOS 26.
• Local installs and manages the BaseRT runtime for you.

Local checks for updates and tells you when a new version is available.

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Signed and notarized for macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon).

Download: https://downloads.basecompute.co/local/v0.1.2

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v0.1.1

Local 0.1.1

Local 0.1.1 brings richer chat rendering, a broader model catalogue, and a
round of fixes across chat, meetings, and first launch.

Highlights

• A new streaming Markdown renderer. Live replies and completed messages
  now share the same polished rendering for headings, code, images, links,
  thematic rules, nested quotes, task lists, reference links, and tables.
  Text advances smoothly instead of arriving in visible chunks, and completed
  blocks settle as the next block begins.
• LaTeX in chat. Inline and display math render with improved alignment,
  bundled math fonts, sized delimiters, annotations, and broader symbol
  coverage. Unsupported or malformed expressions remain visible instead of
  disappearing or interrupting a reply.
• Tables that use the available space. Narrow tables expand to the chat
  width, while wide tables retain horizontal scrolling so their content stays
  readable. During generation, completed rows remain stable while only the
  newest row animates, avoiding disruptive full-table redraws.
• More models, kept current. The model catalogue now uses the live model
  registry with an offline cache, making compatible models available sooner
  and keeping model selection responsive.

Fixes and polish

• Smoothed spacing in streamed replies, code cards, and tool activity.
• Improved quote bars, link previews, inline images, and complex math layout.
• Hidden internal and system-only devices from the meeting microphone picker.
• Fixed a duplicate Dock icon that could appear during first launch.
• Improved stability for long replies and complex formulas.

Requirements

• Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 14 or newer.
• Local installs and manages the BaseRT runtime for you.

Local checks for updates and tells you when a new version is available.

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Signed and notarized for macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon).

Download: https://downloads.basecompute.co/local/v0.1.1

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v0.1.0

Local 0.1.0

The first public release of Local — private AI on your own Mac. Local
runs open models on Apple Silicon through the BaseRT runtime: chat,
meetings, and coding sessions that work entirely on your machine, with
nothing leaving it unless you say so.

Highlights

• Chat with local models. Replies render as live Markdown — headings,
  tables, code blocks, and the model's thinking — and long conversations
  keep going.
• A model catalogue sized to your Mac. Local recommends model tiers
  that fit your machine's memory, downloads them fast with resume and
  cancel, and picks up new models without waiting for an app update.
• Meetings. Record, transcribe on-device with speaker identification,
  and turn transcripts into crisp write-ups.
• Coding sessions. Point Local at a folder and work with a model that
  can read and use real tools, with every call visible as it runs.
• Private by design. Privacy mode guarantees requests are never routed
  to a cloud provider. Cloud models are there when you want them — bring
  your own key, or your own endpoint — and never when you don't.
• Storage, in one place. Everything Local keeps on disk — models,
  recordings, sessions — listed and sorted so the biggest wins are on top.
• Tunable, safely. A small set of advanced server options — context
  window, KV-cache precision, reply length — for people who want control
  without being able to break chat.

Requirements

• Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 14 or newer.
• Local installs and manages the BaseRT runtime for you.

Local checks for updates and tells you when a new version is available.

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Signed and notarized for macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon).

Download: https://downloads.basecompute.co/local/v0.1.0

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