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Sidekick for Mac

Chat with a local LLM on macOS using your files — no extra setup.

By johnbean393. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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Sidekick at a glance

Version
1.0.0-rc.18 (pre-release)
Released
2 April 2026
Download size
172 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Artificial Intelligence
Developer
johnbean393
GitHub stars
3.3K

About Sidekick

A native macOS app that allows users to chat with a local LLM that can respond with information from files, folders and websites on your Mac without installing any other software. Powered by llama.cpp.

Screenshots

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How to install Sidekick on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Sidekick and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.0.0-rc.18 from johnbean393'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 Sidekick 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: Sidekick.1.0.0-rc.18.dmg (172 MB).

What is new in Sidekick 1.0.0-rc.18

# Update

## Features
- Local LLM & remote VLMs with an OpenAI compatible API
- File, folder, website indexing and context
- Web search
- Function calling
- Deep Research
- Memory
- Canvas
- Image generation
- Diagrammer
- Slide Studio
- Inline Writing Assistant & Completions
- Detector

## New Changes
- Support Gemma 4

## Fixes and Performance Improvements
- Response streaming

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