Vunemi

Vunemi is a personal assistant for the Mac that runs on local models. Your files, mail and calendar stay on your computer; the model runs there too.

It can use its built-in engine or a local model server you already have (LM Studio, Ollama, llama.cpp). Files, calendar, mail, the browser, flight and hotel search and Mac apps are offered as connections, and every connection starts switched off. Anything beyond reading goes through an approval card first.

Vunemi never types passwords, card or ID numbers for you, never solves CAPTCHAs, never pays, and never deletes anything for good. macOS permission prompts and Vunemi's own approval cards are always yours to answer.

Download

The latest build is on the Releases page: a disk image for Apple Silicon Macs (macOS 14 or later). Open it and drag Vunemi into the Applications folder.

This build is signed but not yet notarized by Apple, so macOS blocks it the first time you open it. If you trust the file:

1. Try to open it. When the warning appears, choose Done.
2. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security and scroll down to Security.
3. Next to the message that the file was blocked, click Open Anyway. The button is there only after you have tried to open the file; if it has gone, try once more.
4. macOS asks again, and may ask for your Mac password or Touch ID.

If there is no Open Anyway button, check in the same Security section where macOS allows apps from: if only the App Store is selected, choose the App Store and known developers, then try again. macOS may block the disk image and, later, Vunemi itself; the steps are the same.

After an update macOS may ask for your login password when Vunemi opens. That is the Keychain, where Vunemi keeps the key to its vault: macOS recognises the helper that reads this key by its exact code, and asks once when an update changes it. Choose Always Allow and it will not ask again until the helper changes. Vunemi never sees the password.

Building from source

You need macOS 14+, an Apple Silicon Mac, Xcode command line tools, Node 22+ and pnpm 11.

pnpm install
pnpm dev
pnpm typecheck
pnpm test

Test macOS permissions in a packaged build rather than the development window:

bash scripts/package.sh
open ~/.vunemi-build/mac-arm64/Vunemi.app

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md first; every commit needs a Signed-off-by line.

License

Vunemi is free software under the GNU General Public License v3.0. You may use, study, change and share it; if you distribute a changed version, you must share its source under the same license.

The name "Vunemi" and its logo are not covered by that license. See TRADEMARKS.md.