MindMac is a native ChatGPT client for macOS, designed to let users use ChatGPT efficiently on macOS. It provides a modern, native, and friendly user interface, is compatible with a variety of AI services such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, and more, and is trusted by AI enthusiasts and teams around the world.
Purpose: MindMac helps users interact more efficiently with AI models such as ChatGPT and improve productivity. Users can chat directly in the main app, or use Inline Mode to quickly ask questions and generate content in any app without switching windows.
Main capabilities:
- Multi-model support: covers the entire OpenAI ChatGPT model lineup (such as o1 Preview, o1 Mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4o Mini, etc.), Azure OpenAI, Google AI and Google Cloud Vertex AI (Gemini), Claude 3 (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku), OpenRouter, Perplexity, Mistral AI, Cohere (Command R, Command R+), OctoAI, Groq, Anyscale, Cerebras, xAI (Grok, Grok Vision), KeyMate.AI, as well as local LLMs via LMStudio, LocalAI, GPT4All, Ollama, llama.cpp, etc., and supports using MLX via MLX server or PicoMLXServer.
- Inline Mode: quickly generate content or ask questions in any app without switching windows, a key feature for improving productivity.
- Prompt templates: includes more than 150 built-in prompt templates to help enhance interactions, with quick access and responses to prompts.
- Highly customizable: adjust OpenAI parameters, appearance, context mode, keyboard shortcuts, and more.
- Conversation management: supports automatically generating/renaming/regenerating chat titles, searching history, sorting, organizing, nested folders, favorites, resetting, deleting conversations, and displaying total usage cost and per-conversation cost.
- Advanced features: internet browsing (Google Search, You Search, Brave Search, Kagi Search, Tavily, Serper, SerpApi), document upload, image generation (DALL·E 2 & DALL·E 3), custom API endpoints and HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy, custom fine-tuned models, export to PDF/Markdown/ShareGPT, inline GPT/prompt/settings trigger command configuration, inline submit/stop shortcuts, inline excluded apps, secure storage of API keys in Keychain, request timeout interval configuration, custom shortcuts, stop/regenerate responses, retrieve the previous question with the up and down keys, restore default configuration, extra information bar display mode, context mode selection, message display mode, message font size, Markdown mode, long message collapse/expand, change app icon.
- Multilingual: the app appearance currently supports more than 10 popular languages, with more to be added in the future.
- Privacy and security: no intermediary servers, data is sent directly to AI service providers; API keys are encrypted and stored in Apple Keychain, in line with industry standards; all data is stored locally.
How to use:
- No account is required; download the app and configure the API key to get started. Using ChatGPT requires an OpenAI account and a valid API key, with no need to subscribe to ChatGPT Plus.
- After configuration, you can chat in the main app, or use Inline Mode to ask questions in other apps (such as Notes, Mail, and browsers).
- The free version can use all features, but is limited to creating up to 5 conversations, and Inline Mode is limited to 10 times per day; after Inline Mode ends beta, it will be limited to the Pro version, and other advanced features will also be limited to the Pro version.
- The paid version is a one-time purchase for permanent use, includes one year of free updates, can activate 2 macOS devices (3 for professional use), and offers a 14-day no-questions-asked refund guarantee.
- To obtain an OpenAI API key, visit https://platform.openai.com/signup to register, then at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys generation.
- License keys are used to activate premium features, and API keys are used to interact with ChatGPT.
- Supports custom API endpoints and proxies, is compatible with the OpenAI Chat Completions API, and can be configured in MindMac → Settings → Account → OpenAI → Chat Completions endpoint and proxy.
Use cases: Suitable for various users such as individuals and teams, for content creation, question answering, productivity improvement, etc., and especially suitable for macOS users who need to seamlessly use AI across different applications.
Limitations: The free version has limits on the number of conversations and inline mode uses; some premium features are only available in the Pro version; currently only the macOS platform is supported; use requires your own API key and may incur corresponding costs. Some features, such as iDevices syncing via iCloud, instant inline commands, quick global conversations, and support for Stable Diffusion image generation, are coming soon.
