1.0 · July 2026
The first public release. Slate is a native, local-first AI workspace for Apple silicon Macs.
- Local chat with any GGUF model you bring, plus a Model Manager with Hugging Face search and RAM-fit guidance.
- Chat with your files: on-device retrieval over documents and folders you attach.
- Editable long-term memory that stays on your Mac.
- Agentic coding with a visible permission model - Ask, Edits and Auto - plus checkpoints and Git tools.
- Local image generation, text-to-image and image-to-image.
- Voice conversations with on-device speech recognition and synthesis.
- Flow: hold-Fn system-wide dictation into any app, cleaned up locally.
- Optional cloud connectors - Claude Code and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with your own key, off by default.
- Light and dark themes, with Slate Pro available as a subscription (from €6/mo) or a one-time Lifetime licence - every future update included.