Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine

Category: other

Tags: local-ai, budgeting, privacy, macos, on-device-llm

Score: 5.7/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 6, Documentation: 4, Utility: 5)

Pulse Local is a Mac budgeting app that runs small AI models entirely on-device, avoiding cloud dependency for privacy. It focuses on reliable arithmetic by performing calculations itself and explicitly flagging uncertainty, with a custom benchmark (BudgetBench) reporting ~7% error rate on unseen conversations.

Target audience: privacy-conscious consumers, personal finance users, Mac users

Repository: https://pulseos.finance

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