AIVA for Mac
A personal AIthat lives on your Mac.
AIVA is a native Mac app, not a browser tab. It runs locally on 127.0.0.1, keeps its data on your machine, and stays on in the background — remembering, following through, and only surfacing what’s genuinely useful.
What AIVA can do
Concrete help with Mac.
Run as a real Mac app
Install from a .dmg like any Mac app. AIVA runs on 127.0.0.1 — local only, not exposed to your network — with its apps a keystroke away (⇧⌘A).
Stay on in the background
AIVA is persistent: it keeps the thread across reminders, follow-ups, and the loose ends of a day, surfacing only what’s time-sensitive.
Choose Local or Cloud
Local mode: bring your own model keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, xAI, or Ollama) and keep everything on your Mac. Cloud mode: managed model and voice, no keys.
See everything it’s doing
Tasks, Loops, Calendar, Notes, and Approvals let you look behind the curtain at exactly what AIVA is up to, any time.
Example prompts
Just say it in plain language.
Open AIVA apps and show me what you’re working on.
Use my own Anthropic key and keep everything local.
What’s overdue and what’s waiting on my approval?
Run in the background and only ping me for time-sensitive things.
Switch me to Cloud mode so I don’t manage keys.
What were you working on this morning?
Actions available
The tools AIVA actually has.
Install
Native .dmg install for macOS.
Run locally
Serves on 127.0.0.1 — local only.
Pick a mode
Local (BYO keys) or managed Cloud.
Open apps
Tasks, Loops, Calendar, Notes, and more (⇧⌘A).
Supervise
Approvals and Tasks show exactly what AIVA does.
Permission model
You stay in control of every consequential action.
Read-only work happens silently. Anything that changes the world waits for your approval — and destructive actions always ask prominently.
Common workflows
How people put it to work.
Local-first control
Run AIVA fully on-device with your own model keys — your data never leaves your Mac.
Managed convenience
Cloud mode supplies the model and voice with no keys to manage, with cross-device sync on the roadmap.
Always-on companion
AIVA works in the background and brings continuity to your day without the noisy pings.
Without your approval, AIVA won’t
No surprises.
These never happen on their own. AIVA drafts and asks; you decide.
- Send, post, or create on your behalf (asks first)
- Run shell commands or destructive operations (always asks prominently)
- There is no persistent “allow always” toggle for dangerous actions
Local-first notes
Your data, on your machine.
AIVA runs on 127.0.0.1 — it isn’t served on your public network.
In Local mode, data stays in AIVA’s data directory on your Mac and you bring your own model keys.
Dangerous actions always ask; routine ones you can ask AIVA to stop prompting about, conversationally.
Related workflows
AIVA works better together.
Core feature
AIVA for Memory
A normal chatbot forgets when you close the tab. AIVA keeps four kinds of memory — durable facts, workflow recipes, live context, and behavior rules — so it knows you, gets faster over time, and never makes you repeat yourself.
Core feature
AIVA for Voice
AIVA listens and speaks — free with the Mac’s built-in voices, or richer with OpenAI or ElevenLabs. Five activation modes, natural interruption, and follow-up listening make it feel like a conversation, not a command line.
Built-in app
AIVA for Local Files
AIVA keeps its own file cabinet on your Mac — drafts, exports, research reports, received attachments, generated artifacts — so the work it produces is organized and findable instead of lost in chat.
Get started
Let AIVA handle Mac for you.
Create your account on the web — it carries straight into the Mac app.