Local Models, Meeting Notes and Token Counts: Five More Keeping Up Posts
Why Care?
Plenty of new AI apps describe themselves as local or open. These five posts check what that means in each case, by reading the code, licenses and docs behind the claims. We haven't run these tools, and the posts say so. Each one is dated to when it landed or launched, so the collection still reads as a timeline.
This batch also picks up new and revised pages across the tool directory.
Worth Reading
- Nativ : a fully open Mac app for MLX models, and how far "native" actually goes.
- Unsloth Desktop : a popular training library becomes a desktop app, with a younger and more limited path on Macs.
- Anarlog : an open-source Granola alternative on its third name, and what its Pro plan holds back.
- Token Monitor : usage and cost across AI coding tools, and what those dollar figures really mean on a subscription.
- AIPOCH Open-Science : a research workbench where "local-first" covers storage and execution, but not the model.
By Collection
| Collection | Articles | Records | Unpublished | Revised | Words |
| tooling | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7,213 |
| lost in public | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7,047 |
| vertical toolkits / HealthTech | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 413 |
| vertical toolkits / Venture Capital Firms | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| vocabulary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What We Added
lost in public (5)
AIPOCH Open-Science — A Research Workbench with Portable Records · Anarlog — The Open-Source Granola Alternative Once Called Hyprnote · Nativ — A Native Mac App for Local MLX Models · Token Monitor — Usage, Cost, and Limits Across AI Coding Tools · Unsloth Desktop — Run and Train Open Models in One App