MACC-E

Personal robotics / Local intelligence

Turn your Mac into a personal robot.

MACC-E is a local-first robot brain for Apple silicon Macs. Talk with it on your Mac or pair an iPad as its face, microphone, and speaker.

Get MACC-EHow it works
MACC-E's friendly rounded robot face

Local by design

A robot brain that lives on your Mac.

Have full conversations

MACC-E hears, transcribes, thinks, and speaks locally. You can interrupt naturally while it responds.

Give it an iPad Head

Pair a nearby iPad for its face, microphone, speaker, and conversation controls while the Mac remains the brain.

Make it yours

Choose local models, write its Soul, inspect its systems, and build the body and capabilities you want around it.

One-time purchase

MACC-E

$49 once

Get the Mac app and MACC-E Head for iPad. No subscription.

  • MACC-E for Apple silicon Mac
  • MACC-E Head for iPad through TestFlight
  • Local voice and written conversations
  • Future bundle additions—source, blueprints, 3D printables, and Discord access—as they are released

Requires: Apple silicon Mac with 16 GB memory or more, macOS 15 or later, and local model downloads. MACC-E Head requires an iPad running iPadOS 18 or later on the same local network.

Current version 0.1.0. Camera perception, motors, and persistent personal memory are not included in the current apps.

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