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Russet for Mac

All the on-device AI: including chat, speech, tools. Minus the ick.

Free
In English
Version 2026.03.15

Russet overview

Russet lets you run the latest and greatest on-device AI optimized for Apple silicon privately, for free, and without an account. Like the resilient russet potato, Russet is AI anywhere, anytime, with 0 network dependency.

Chat about anything, add attachments, and tune your preferred response style per chat. Generate natural, expressive speech from text in any voice, and share them with other Russet users across Apple devices. Translate, summarize, debate, label, and rewrite text with Flow. Manage your Calendar, Contacts, and Files using powerful agentic tools.

Got a chat for your eyes or speech for your ears only? Lock it instantly with on-device biometrics. Want to explore a different conversation path without starting from scratch? Simply branch the chat. A clean, lightweight, and native interface designed for privacy, focus, and calm.

Features
  • Privacy-first: All chats run fully on-device by default. If you enable a cloud model using your own API key, your requests are sent directly to that provider under their privacy policy—never stored or accessed by Russet's developer.
  • Intelligent Templates: Chat with your real calendar data for instant daily, tomorrow, or weekly briefings.
  • Powerful chats: Customize the response style to your needs, branch and lock chats, pick your favorite model (including ones with reasoning and/or image-to-text capabilities), and extract information from PDFs.
  • Agentic processing: Russet can help manage your schedule, contacts, and files by intelligently coordinating with system services.
  • Flow: Revise, label, debate, summarize, or rewrite text with just one click.
  • Game: Embark on text-based adventures, co-creating immersive stories with Russet
  • Offline-ready: Works anywhere. No connection required.
  • Polyglot: 13 languages. Written and spoken.

Russet is also available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.

What's new in version 2026.03.15

New
  • Say hello to the latest and greatest multimodal Qwen3.5 Small Model Series (SMS), among others, now live on Russet. Download from Settings and spin up a new Chat to try.
  • Introducing Speech: generate natural and expressive speech from text in any voice. As with all else on Russet, neither text nor speech leaves your Mac and processing occurs on-device.
  • Expanded supported attachment types in chat for all on-device models. Plus new agentic tools thanks to more supported attachment types: Summarize Document and Explain Code.

Russet for Mac

Free
In English
Version 2026.03.15
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