SafeRag SE
Private AI chat with local RAG
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
Chat with your PDFs, Word files and notes using AI that runs on your Mac. Free, no account, and your documents never leave your Mac.
SafeRag SE lets you chat with your documents using AI that runs on your Mac. Your documents and conversations never leave your device.
Chat with Your Documents
Add PDFs, Word documents, text and Markdown files, web pages saved as HTML, and images of text. SafeRag SE finds the passages relevant to your question and answers from them, so you can ask questions, get summaries, compare documents and pull out key details.
Completely Private
SafeRag SE runs language models locally with llama.cpp, optimized for Apple Silicon. No account, no API keys, no cloud service. The only time it goes online is when you download a model.
Apple Intelligence Ready
On macOS 26 and later, SafeRag SE can use Apple's on-device Foundation Models. Choose between downloaded llama.cpp models, Apple Intelligence, or an Ollama server running on your Mac.
Built for macOS
A native SwiftUI app that supports light and dark mode and fits comfortably on a 13-inch MacBook Air.
Key Features
- Import PDF, DOCX, TXT, Markdown, HTML and images (text is recognized with on-device OCR)
- Ask questions across all your documents
- Download and manage GGUF models in the app
- Watch folders for automatic import of new files
- Multiple chats with saved history
- Optional password encryption for your conversations and their titles, with automatic lock when your display sleeps
- Prompt templates for common tasks: summarize, explain, translate, compare, find in documents
- Adjustable text size and appearance
- Keyboard shortcuts
Requirements
- Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later)
- macOS 14.0 Sonoma or later
- 8 GB RAM or more recommended for local models
Free, with no account and no hidden costs.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
- Set up a password at any time in Settings → Security. Existing conversations are encrypted too, and chat titles are now encrypted as well.
- Removing your password keeps your conversation history.
- SafeRag SE locks when your display sleeps and hides your chats until you unlock it.
- Add several documents at once, with progress and a clear reason for any file that can't be imported.
- Watch folders now show when a folder can't be reached and which files couldn't be imported, with Retry.
- Questions about long documents no longer fail, and no text is skipped when documents are indexed.
- Stop now works with every model, and Retry resends after an error.
- The window fits smaller screens, and the documents panel can be hidden.
- Faster launch: the app opens right away while your model loads.
- Model downloads are checked before use; a failed download shows why, with Retry.
- Apple Intelligence remembers the conversation when you reopen a chat.
- VoiceOver and keyboard access improvements, and many smaller fixes.
The developer, Halldor Gislason, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Halldor Gislason
- Size
- 3.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Halldor Gislason 2026
