Overview

Silkwave is a free, universal AI chat client for macOS that consolidates multiple AI models into a single beautiful desktop application. Connect your own API keys to chat with cloud models from OpenAI (GPT-4.1, GPT-4o, o1, o3-mini), Anthropic (Claude Opus 4, Claude Sonnet 4, Claude Haiku 3.5), Google (Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash), Nebius, and more. For privacy-focused users, Silkwave supports local Ollama models including DeepSeek-V3, DeepSeek-R1, Llama 3, Qwen3, Gemma 27B, QwQ, and Mistral Small 3.2 with no API key required. The app features instant model switching within conversations, multi-modal support for documents, images, audio, and video uploads, and light/dark themes. All your AI conversations in one unified interface.

Pricing: Free

Architecture: Apple Silicon, Intel

Key Features

Support for multiple AI providers via BYOK (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Nebius)
Local Ollama model support for private, offline AI conversations
Instant model switching within the same chat
Multi-modal file uploads: documents, images, audio, and video
Support for latest models: GPT-4.1, Claude Opus 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, DeepSeek-R1, and more
Light and dark theme options
Native macOS application available on Mac App Store
Unified interface for all your AI conversations
No subscription required - completely free