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DS4 ControlSwama
Free

Free and open source under the MIT licence.

 Free

Free, with source published on GitHub.

macOS macOS
  • Starts, supervises and monitors a local ds4 server
  • Switch between DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 variants from the menu bar
  • Native Swift implementation on MLX
  • Supports text, vision, embedding, speech recognition and speech synthesis models
  • macOS only
  • Only runs DeepSeek models through dwarfstar
  • Apple Silicon Macs only
  • Smaller project than established model runners
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: MIT License not stated
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked October 1, 2026

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