Nativ gives Mac users a native MLX-backed desktop app for running local LLMs and VLMs, with a chat UI plus an OpenAI-compatible localhost API server — and it auto-discovers MLX models already in your Hugging Face cache, avoiding redundant downloads. It's a leaner Apple-Silicon-first alternative to LM Studio for anyone building against local models.
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“The app picked up MLX models I had already tried that were present in my Hugging Face cache directory, which was a nice touch.”
