For a native Mac app instead of a browser tab, Enchanted, Jan or LM Studio; for another self-hosted web interface, LibreChat or AnythingLLM. Open WebUI itself is a self-hosted AI platform you install with pip on Python 3.11, uv or Docker and open in a browser or as a Progressive Web App; it connects Ollama and any OpenAI compatible API, with local retrieval over documents and web search. Its license is BSD style with a clause that forbids removing its branding in deployments past fifty users, so it is not open source in the OSI sense. Enchanted (Apache 2.0) is a native client for Ollama on macOS and iPhone. Jan (Apache 2.0) and LM Studio (closed source, free) are desktop apps that run models themselves. LibreChat (MIT) is a self-hosted, multi-user chat with agents and MCP. AnythingLLM (MIT) adds documents and agents with a desktop app. Grux OS (MIT) is not a chat interface: it is an agent that uses a local model to act on your Mac.
Grux OS 3.0.0 · last checked 2026-09-30 · generated from the shipping release
Not a native one. On a Mac you install it with pip, uv or Docker and open it in a browser, or add it as a Progressive Web App. Enchanted, Jan and LM Studio are native desktop apps.
Is Open WebUI open source?
Its source is public under a BSD style license with an added clause that forbids removing its branding in deployments past fifty users, so it is not open source in the OSI sense.
What is the best native Mac alternative to Open WebUI?
For chatting with Ollama models, Enchanted is a native macOS and iPhone app. To run models without Ollama, Jan or LM Studio. For an agent that acts on your Mac, Grux OS.