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Pivra Desk for Mac

Personal AI for your Mac.It asks before it acts.

Pivra Desk for Mac is a local-first personal AI agent for Macs with Apple silicon. It works across your files, browser and apps using a model on your Mac or a cloud model you choose, and asks before consequential actions.

Give an agent a job: an article, invoice reminders, a research brief, a study plan. It drafts the work from your own files and apps and waits for your yes before anything is sent, paid or published. It lives in the menu bar, so routines keep running after you close the window.

Download for Macv0.2.18 · Apple silicon · 150 MB
Free, or Plus at US$6 (A$9) a month

On a Windows PC instead? Pivra Desk for Windows

Pivra Desk at a glance

Type
Local-first personal AI agent: a desktop app, not a browser tab or a hosted service
Platforms
macOS on Apple silicon (M1 and later) and 64-bit Windows 10 or 11
Execution
On your own computer. A cloud model is used only if you choose one. Routines run while your computer is on
Models
A model that runs on your computer, or your own key for Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM)
Primary control
Reading and searching run on their own. Sending, publishing, paying and changing wait for your approval. Money, deletes and deploys need Touch ID on a Mac or a typed phrase
Price
Free. Plus is US$6 (A$9) a month
Company
Pivra.ai
Last verified
8 October 2026

The details behind each line are on security and privacy and in the Desk help centre.

Requirements

What your Mac needs.

Mac
Apple silicon (M1 and later). The Mac build does not run on Intel Macs.
Memory
16 GB is comfortable for a model on your computer. The smallest models run on 8 GB.
Space
About 170 MB for the app, plus 0.5 to 7 GB if you choose a model that runs on this computer.
Account
None for the free plan. You sign in only for a paid plan.

Install

Download, open, answer a few questions.

  1. 1

    Download Pivra Desk for Mac. It is a .dmg file.

  2. 2

    Open the file and drag Pivra Desk into Applications.

  3. 3

    Open Pivra Desk from Applications. It is signed and notarised by Apple, so macOS opens it without a warning.

  4. 4

    Setup asks where the model runs (on this Mac, or with your own Claude or OpenAI API key), names your first agent and its job, and asks whether to share anonymous usage counts. That is off unless you turn it on.

Every step and every choice, in detail: Install Pivra Desk.

What it can do

Real jobs, from your own files and apps.

Six templates ship in the app. Each asks a few setup questions and says plainly what it will not do. Schedules stay off until you tick them on, and routines run while your computer is on.

Founders and marketers

Content & SEO

Drafts one useful article a day for your site (or LinkedIn, Medium or a newsletter if you have no site yet), checks how you show up in search, and can open the post as a pull request for you to approve. Never publishes by itself.

Freelancers and small businesses

Bookkeeper

Keeps a ledger from the invoices and receipts you share, tells you what is due, and drafts polite reminders you approve. It never pays, files or sends anything on its own.

Anyone with a question

Researcher

Looks things up on the web and in your files and writes a short brief with a link to every source. Says when sources disagree instead of guessing.

Graduates and job seekers

Job hunt

Tracks your applications, tailors your CV and cover letter to each role from what is true, and reminds you to follow up. You send everything yourself.

Students

Study planner

Turns your syllabus and exam dates into a daily plan and quizzes you from your own notes, citing the file for each answer.

Creators and small teams

Social media

Turns your posts, news and wins into ready-to-copy drafts for LinkedIn and X, in your voice. Drafts only: you copy and post.

Permissions

What it does on its own, and what waits for you.

Pivra Desk sorts every action by what it could change. The more it could change, the more it asks of you. You can add your own rules in plain words on top.

  1. Reading and searching

    Automatic

    Looking at a file, a calendar or a web page never needs a click.

  2. Sending, publishing, paying, changing

    Asks you

    Waits on a card that shows exactly what will happen: the recipient, the text, the file, the command.

  3. Money, deletes and deploys

    Critical

    Needs Touch ID on your Mac, or a phrase you type. No agent moves money on its own.

Connected accounts ask for as little as they can

  • Google. Pivra’s built-in sign-in asks for your calendar (read only) and your account email. Sending through Gmail needs your own Google sign-in app for now; without one, approved emails are saved as drafts.
  • GitHub. Public repositories only, unless you opt in to private ones.
  • MCP servers. Remote and local servers, with sign-in; their write tools sit behind approval like any other.
  • Your keys and logins are sealed in a vault on your computer. With a model on your computer or your own key, your work does not go through Pivra’s servers.

On Mac

  • Commands run in the Mac’s own sandbox. Everything is denied by default. A command may write only inside its own work folder, cannot read your home folder, and reaches the network only as you set. No Docker needed.
  • Touch ID for critical actions. Money, deletes and deploys need Touch ID, or a phrase you type.
  • A model on your Mac. Offline mode runs Gemma 4 through llama.cpp on Apple’s GPU (Metal), picks a size that fits the memory you have free, and checks the model file against a pinned checksum before it runs.
  • Signed updates. The app is signed with our Apple Developer ID and notarised. The updater checks that a new build carries the same signature, never downgrades and never installs pre-releases.

Security and privacy, including what we have not done yet

Free to start. Your computer, your model, your approvals.

Download for MacMore about Pivra Desk

Guides: your first agent, choosing a model, approvals and rules and troubleshooting.