Apple Foundation Models
How vibe coders and indie builders use Apple Foundation Models: 21 projects built with it and 1 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
21
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
<0.1%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
1
Share of stated stacks, per week
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What's built with it
Latest projects built with Apple Foundation Models
- VaultAudit — Tracks subscriptions by reading screenshots of receipts or Apple subscription pages on-device, without bank connections.“My side project: a subscription tracker that never asks for your bank login. You just screenshot receipts.”
- OmniNotch — Puts a multi-tool dashboard in the Mac notch with sales stats, AI usage tracking, a teleprompter, clipboard history, a file shelf, and music, weather, calendar and note widgets.“I know there are a hundred notch apps already. Here's why I built another one.”
- AI Coach — Runs a desktop pet on Mac that hatches, grows, and unlocks small tools, with optional links to Claude and website drop-ins that subscribe to RSS or save bookmarks.“I built a Mac desktop pet that learns useful tools as you raise it”
- ReturnNotice — Tracks product return windows and deadlines with countdowns, reminders, shipment details and refund status.“ReturnNotice: Track every return window so you never miss a deadline — countdowns, reminders, shipments, and refunds in one place.”
- Tidy — Renames image and PDF files based on the text recognized inside them and sorts Downloads and Desktop with rules.“My Mac app that names files by reading what's inside them just got camera scanning. Solo dev, 5th month.”
- Organize My Life — Sorts tasks into Now, Next, and Someday buckets with a hard cap on the Now bucket and suggests buckets via local AI that the user must confirm.“I built a task manager that replaces priority levels with a hard cap on what "now" means”
- Fog — Automatically names, groups and organizes notes on-device using Apple's Foundation Models, and answers questions about them.“I built a free notes app that organizes itself using on device AI”
- Spotter — Logs strength training sets on iPhone and Apple Watch, storing all data on the device and syncing through the user's iCloud.“I got annoyed that I had to make an account to write down how much I lifted, so I build my own gym tracker”
- uChecker — Proofreads and rephrases selected text in any Mac app using on-device spelling checks, Apple's local model, or a user-chosen API endpoint.“I built uChecker - a private, on-device proofreader for Mac (no cloud, no subscription)”
- StepGrab — Records a user's clicks on macOS and turns them into a numbered step-by-step guide with screenshots, exportable as PDF, GIF, or MP4.“I got tired of writing SOPs by hand, so I built a Mac app that documents the steps for me”
- Stacksmith — Manages native local development services defined in a stacksmith.yml file, with start/stop, logs, health checks, port conflict detection, and AI-assisted startup diagnosis.“I built a native macOS app to manage local development stacks”
- Everwrite — Builds a story bible of characters, places and objects from a manuscript and flags continuity errors like name drift or contradictions between chapters.“Launched Everwrite, any novel writers here?”
- macbook-ai — Wraps macOS built-in speech recognition, text-to-speech, and on-device language model into a Python library.“Free Python wrapper for macOS on-device AI. Speech To Text, Text To Speech, and LLM via Foundation Models. 100% Free and No API keys.”
- Tastik — Manages customizable lists with multiple formats, interactive widgets, iCloud sharing, templates, and on-device AI parsing of typed items.“Tastik - Another task app, except this one knows it can't compete with the big ones”
- Council — Sends one question to several AI models in parallel, has them critique each other, and shows where their answers agree and disagree along with a synthesis.“Council — got tired of asking the same question to 3 different AIs and comparing by hand, so I built a Mac app that does it for me (solo, open source)”
Latest add-ons built for Apple Foundation Models
- Foundation Eval Labs — Runs evals and traces against Apple Foundation Models and can be driven by an agent through MCP.“Foundation Eval labs 🧪”