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HuggingChat for Mac

Native chat interface for open-source language models.

By huggingface. Free and open source, Apache-2.0 licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

This app is no longer maintained by its developer. It still installs, but it will not get updates.

HuggingChat at a glance

Version
0.7.0 (pre-release)
Released
6 December 2024
Download size
12 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
Apache-2.0
Category
Social and Communication
Developer
huggingface
GitHub stars
2K

About HuggingChat

Making the community's best AI chat models available to everyone.

Screenshots

HuggingChat screenshot 1

How to install HuggingChat on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for HuggingChat and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.7.0 from huggingface's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to HuggingChat show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: HuggingChat.zip (12 MB).

What is new in HuggingChat 0.7.0

## What's Changed

**Context Injection**
- Added automatic VSCode, Xcode, iTerm2 and terminal context injection

**System Wide Dictation**
- Launched on-device system-wide audio transcription using WhisperKit

**Multimodality and Tool Use**
- Added support for image inference, document upload
- Added link previews for web browsing

**Offline Inference**
- Added MLX backend support for on-device LLM generation

**UI Improvements**
- Refreshed overall interface design and animations
- Enhanced attachment and preview systems

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