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Local Studio vs Swama: catalog facts
Local Studio	Swama
Free Free download; the research does not mention any paid plans.	Free Free, with source published on GitHub.
macOS	macOS
Supports vLLM, SGLang, MLX and llama.cpp backends Single OpenAI-compatible endpoint for served models	Native Swift implementation on MLX Supports text, vision, embedding, speech recognition and speech synthesis models
macOS only Aimed at technical users with their own hardware	Apple Silicon Macs only Smaller project than established model runners
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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