Lokei Studio
Local AI in your menu bar
Only for Mac
$14.99
Mac
New in 1.3: a host can save a room transcript. Everyone is told, nothing said before you switch it on is ever kept, and private messages never are.
Lokei turns your Mac into a private local AI workspace.
Chat, run Missions, host Rooms, expose approved tools, and ask your files with no Lokei cloud or account.
LOCAL AI, YOUR HARDWARE
Use Apple Intelligence on supported Macs, fully on device. Or connect to Ollama, LM Studio, or another local model server on your Wi-Fi. No provider account is required for Lokei itself.
WORKROOMS ON YOUR WI-FI
Lokei Rooms let nearby Macs create and join local workspaces. Discovery happens on the LAN. Hosts approve join requests, optional room codes can gate access, and room AI answers use the host's on-device or local model.
MISSIONS AND WATCHERS
Missions are multi-step runs for writing, research, planning, code review, and documents. Watchers can run scheduled background missions while Lokei is open and place results in your Mission inbox.
TOOLS YOU APPROVE
MCP Bridge lets paired devices discover your Mac and call only the tools you enable. Custom Tools can be text templates or HTTP calls to services on your LAN. Permission Tiers make high-trust actions explicit.
AUDITABLE BY DESIGN
The Trust Ledger records model, tool, and network events in plain language. You can see what ran, where it went, and which permission tier applied.
FILES, IMAGES, AND VOICE
Ask questions over local documents, notes, screenshots, and images. Lokei can use on-device OCR for visual context, voice conversation mode for hands-free chats, and folders, tags, and smart folders to keep work organized.
WHAT'S PRIVATE ABOUT IT
Lokei does not run a cloud AI service. Lokei does not require an account.
When you choose Apple Intelligence, inference runs on your Mac.
When you choose Ollama or LM Studio, prompts go only to the local server you configure on your Wi-Fi.
Rooms and MCP Bridge use local-network discovery. Bridge tools are off until you enable them. Connections from outside your local network are rejected.
Your conversations, documents, Trust Ledger, encrypted backups, and exports live under your control on your Mac.
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NEW
Saved Rooms: a host can keep a transcript of a room. Turn saving on when you create the room, or at any point while it is running. Everyone in the room is told, and told again if you turn it off, so nobody is left assuming they are still being recorded.
Nothing said before you turn saving on is ever kept. Saving does not reach backwards, so a transcript cannot quietly capture a conversation that happened before anyone agreed to it. Private messages are never saved at all.
Saved rooms live under Saved Rooms, where you can read a transcript or delete it. They stay on this Mac until you delete them. Nothing expires on its own.
Rooms saved on your iPhone or iPad can be copied to this Mac when the room ends, so the transcript lives here too.
When a room ends, Lokei Studio now tells you what it kept instead of saving in silence.
IMPROVED
Joining a room that has been restarted no longer fails without explanation. Lokei Studio refreshes discovery and reconnects on its own.
Room problems say what actually went wrong rather than blaming your Wi-Fi, and leave a trace in the log when they do.
The Trust Ledger records saved room transcripts, and no longer loses the whole file to a single unreadable entry.
The privacy report names saved rooms where it lists what is stored and where.
The developer, Justin Patterson, 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
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Information
- Seller
- Justin Patterson
- Size
- 7.3 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 13.5 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 13.5 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Justin Patterson

