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Swama vs DS4 Control: catalog facts
Swama	DS4 Control
Free Free, with source published on GitHub.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
macOS	macOS
Native Swift implementation on MLX Supports text, vision, embedding, speech recognition and speech synthesis models	Starts, supervises and monitors a local ds4 server Switch between DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 variants from the menu bar
Apple Silicon Macs only Smaller project than established model runners	macOS only Only runs DeepSeek models through dwarfstar
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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