A native macOS chat client, built with SwiftUI. Talk to Eaon's hosted models, bring your own API key for any OpenAI-compatible/Anthropic/Gemini provider, or run models entirely on-device with Ollama, llama.cpp, or MLX — all from the same app, with no account required for the local-only path.
- Multi-provider chat — Eaon's hosted catalog, BYOK cloud providers, and local models, with automatic routing based on which model you pick.
- Local models — discover and run GGUF/MLX models via Ollama, llama.cpp, or Apple's MLX framework, with live hardware-fit checks before you download anything.
- Plugins — connect real accounts (GitHub, Slack, Notion, Linear, and more) and let a model call their tools directly, with native tool-calling and a confirmation step before anything runs.
- Image generation — over an API or a local server (Automatic1111-style, or an Ollama-served diffusion model).
- Computer Control — optional, off by default — let a model organize files or run shell commands on this Mac, with safety rules and confirmation built in.
- Local API Server — run Eaon itself as a local, OpenAI-compatible server other tools can point at.
- Memory — Eaon can learn durable facts about you across conversations, entirely on-device.
Clone the repository, then run the development launcher:
git clone https://github.com/sanscreates/eaon-desktop.git
cd eaon-desktop
./run.shThe launcher builds Eaon and starts it as a detached macOS app process.
Requires Xcode 15+ / Swift 5.9+ and macOS 14+.
swift build
./run.sh # builds and launches for local developmentTo produce a distributable universal build (arm64 + x86_64), see
build-installer.sh and RELEASING-UPDATES.md.
Sanscreates, Mincoffical, and Tanzim
Contributions are genuinely welcome and made as easy as possible. No account, no CLA to sign, no external dependencies to wrangle:
git clone https://github.com/sanscreates/eaon-desktop
cd eaon-desktop
swift build && ./run.shThat's the whole setup. Open an issue, pick up a
good first issue,
or just send a PR — see CONTRIBUTING.md for the (short)
details and the one-line sign-off we use instead of a contributor agreement.
Eaon is GNU GPL v3.0. You're free to use, study, modify, and redistribute it. Any modified version you distribute must also be GPLv3, with source available, keeping the existing copyright notices. Fork away.
