Many minds.
One reply.
Polycode fans every prompt out to Claude, GPT, Gemini, Apple Intelligence and more — in parallel — then synthesizes a single answer with the trace kept honest. Native macOS. Bring your own keys.
Polycode is in active development — this preview may not reflect the final state of the app exactly.
Works with the keys you already have.
Every prompt asks every model. Then a primary settles it.
One question fans out to as many providers as you've configured. Replies arrive in parallel — you watch them land — and a primary peer synthesizes them into a single answer. No more tab-juggling between Claude and GPT.
Parallel by default
Reads (synthesis) fan out to every configured provider. Native writes are primary-only — your write tools never run twice.
A primary peer chooses the words
Pick the model whose voice you trust most. It reads every reply, then writes the consensus you actually see.
Disagreement is surfaced, not buried
When the panel splits, the agreement score says so — and every provider's full reply sits one click away in the trace, minority takes included.
See who said what. Down to the token.
Hit ⌘⇧I and the inspector slides in. Each provider gets a card: status, latency, in/out tokens, dollar cost, the resolved model id, and the full response — ready to copy, share, or pin to disk.
Per-exchange, not per-session
Every fan-out renders its own trace card stack. Scrub back through your conversation; the receipts go with it.
Costs you can audit
Token-priced per provider with tabular figures. No mystery bills, no marked-up resale — just what your keys actually spent.
Tool calls included
Approve or reject individual tool calls per exchange, and the trace records which provider's plan was actually executed.
A native macOS app — not a web wrapper.
SwiftUI from titlebar to inspector. Hardened runtime, App Sandbox, MAS distribution. Quick Look, drag-and-drop, system services, Spotlight indexing for sessions — it acts like the rest of your computer because it's built like the rest of your computer.
SwiftUI, top to bottom
26 / 22 / 17 / 15 / 13 — HIG type scale. Sentence case. Visual-effect titlebar. No Electron, no Tauri, no bloated web-shell chrome.
Sandboxed by default
App Sandbox + hardened runtime. Files are entitlements, not implicit reads. Polycode can't see anything you didn't grant.
On-device, when you want it
Apple Intelligence Foundation Models route everything through the Neural Engine — zero network, zero spend, sub-half-second turnarounds.
Spotlight-fast sessions
Sessions are indexed by Core Spotlight. ⌘F in the sidebar or just hit Spotlight from anywhere — every conversation is searchable.
MCP, first-class
Model Context Protocol servers attach as tools. Polycode shows status, capabilities, and per-server latency right in the sidebar strip.
Local-first, by design
Conversations live in a local SQLite store you can read, back up, or move. No cloud sync we control — your conversations stay on your Mac.
Your money. Your keys. Your prompts.
Polycode never sees your traffic. Keys live in the macOS Keychain, requests go directly from your machine to the providers you've authorized, and we couldn't read your conversations even if we wanted to — there's no server in the loop.
- Keys stored in the system Keychain — never on disk in plaintext, never on our servers.
- Direct calls to provider APIs. No proxy, no rewriting, no middleman markup.
- Anonymous diagnostics are on by default and fully documented — toggle them off in Settings, no account required.
- Run ollama, LM Studio, or any local OpenAI-compatible endpoint entirely offline if you want zero network at all.
Buy it once. Keep it forever.
No subscription. No per-seat. No usage tax. Pay once, then bring your own keys — you'll spend on the providers you actually use.
- Universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
- Unlimited providers, unlimited sessions, unlimited keys.
- All future updates included. Forever.
- Family Sharing supported. Up to 5 family members on one purchase.
- Provider costs are billed by the providers themselves.
Plain answers.
Why pay for a chat client when ChatGPT and Claude have native apps?
Do I need accounts with every provider?
Can I just use OpenRouter for everything?
Will my prompts ever leave my machine through your servers?
How does fan-out cost compare to using one model?
What about MCP servers and tool calls?
When will an iPad / iPhone app ship?
Longer answers live in the docs FAQ.
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Polycode is coming to the Mac App Store. Get on the waitlist to lock in launch pricing — or join the TestFlight beta to try it first.