Show HN: Warden – A Native (and Free) AI Chat App for macOS

[skarat]

Warden is a minimalist, simple and beautiful macOS AI chat app, that supports most AI providers: ChatGPT, Anthropic (Claude), xAI (Grok), Google Gemini, Perplexity, Groq, Local LLMs through Ollama, OpenRouter, and almost any OpenAI-compatible APIs.

Completely Native app, built with SwiftUI

Zero telemetry, no data collected from you, all your data remains on your Mac and can be easily exported into an easy-to-read JSON file

Lightweight app, compared to Electron based alternatives

Supports these LLM APIs:

Openrouter

OpenAI

Anthropic (Claude)

xAI (Grok)

Groq

Perplexity

Ollama

Deepseek

It should also support most other OpenAI compatible APIs

https://karatsidhu.gumroad.com/l/warden

[apothegm]

This says it’s forked from another project. In what ways does it differ from the original?