Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

{"problem_it_solves": "Apple ships an on-device LLM with macOS 26 (Tahoe) on Apple Silicon but only exposes it through Siri - apfel gives direct terminal and API access to it without needing to write Swift code", "target_customer": "Developers, system administrators, and Mac power users with Apple Silicon Macs who want local AI inference without API costs", "use_cases": ["Natural language to shell command generation", "Pipe chain generation from plain English", "Command/error explanation", "Directory/project orientation", "Git commit summarization", "OpenAI SDK integration", "Scriptable AI workflows", "Local privacy-sensitive AI tasks"], "pricing_details": "$0 token cost - uses Apple's built-in on-device LLM that ships with macOS", "free_tier": "Yes - 100% free, uses local hardware", "differentiator": "Leverages Apple's native on-device LLM that ships with macOS 26+ on Apple Silicon - no cloud, no API calls, no costs", "why_now": "macOS 26 (Tahoe) is the first version to ship with Apple Intelligence including a built-in LLM accessible via FoundationModels framework - previously unavailable for direct developer access", "traction": {"customers_mentioned": ["Engineers from Apple, Google, VMware, NVIDIA, and Grafana"], "notable_metrics": "1.1k GitHub stars (1,030 stars as of April 3, 2026), 27 forks, 818 stars on April 3 alone"}}