Pulse Local is a Mac (Apple Silicon, beta) budgeting app that uses AI models running on your machine. It requires no account and sends no analytics or crash logs. The app uses a fine-tuned Qwen3 0.6B model to interpret spending questions and checks answers with a 4B model.
The chart will appear after repeat observations. The current metric comes from the source.
26 source pointsReal observations only. History before source connection is not reconstructed.
The app provides local data processing without sending information to the cloud, which may be useful for users concerned about privacy.
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