AppleAI
A MacOS menu bar app for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, DeepSeek, Grok and many more into one streamlined interface (by bunnysayzz)
ruby_llm
One beautiful Ruby API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Ollama, VertexAI, Perplexity, Mistral, GPUStack & OpenAI compatible APIs. Chat, Vision, Audio, PDF, Images, Embeddings, Tools, Streaming & Rails integration. (by crmne)
| AppleAI | ruby_llm | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | |
| 111 | 3,332 | |
| 5.4% | 6.0% | |
| 8.3 | 9.8 | |
| 3 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Swift | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
AppleAI
Posts with mentions or reviews of AppleAI. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
- Introducing Apple AI: A Native macOS Menu Bar App for Seamless AI Integration
Unified access to multiple AI tools Optimized for macOS speed and efficiency Persistent sessions to maintain chat context Sleek, macOS-compliant UI Download it now on GitHub and let me know your thoughts! Feedback is always appreciated.
ruby_llm
Posts with mentions or reviews of ruby_llm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-12-09.
- ruby-openai VS ruby_llm - a user suggested alternative 2 projects | 9 Dec 2025
ruby_llm seems to be the most popular "AI integration" gem these days.
- RubyLLM 1.4.0: Structured Output, Custom Parameters, and Rails Generators
- Async Ruby is the Future of AI Apps (And It's Already Here)
Then, building RubyLLM and Chat with Work, I noticed that LLM communication is async Ruby's killer app. The unique demands of streaming AI responses -- long-lived connections, token-by-token delivery, thousands of concurrent conversations -- expose exactly why async matters.
- RubyLLM 1.3.0: Just When You Thought the Developer Experience Couldn't Get Any Better 🎉
Want to shape RubyLLM's future? Join us on GitHub.
- ruby_llm VS langchainrb - a user suggested alternative 2 projects | 14 May 2025
- langchainrb VS ruby_llm - a user suggested alternative 2 projects | 14 May 2025
- RubyLLM 1.2.0: Now works with any OpenAI-compatible API (Ollama, Azure, etc.)
- RubyLLM 1.1.0: AWS Bedrock support, resilient error handling for LLMs, and more
- RubyLLM 1.1.0rc1 is out with Bedrock support and other improvements
- Ruby LLM
What are some alternatives?
When comparing AppleAI and ruby_llm you can also consider the following projects:
Sidekick - A native macOS app that allows users to chat with a local LLM that can respond with information from files, folders and websites on your Mac without installing any other software. Powered by llama.cpp.
activeagent - ActiveAgent Rails framework for Agent Apps
langchain-swift - 🚀 LangChain for Swift. Optimized for iOS, macOS, watchOS (part) and visionOS.(beta)
simple-openai - A Java library to use the OpenAI Api in the simplest possible way.
cctray - macOS menu bar app for monitoring Claude Code usage
omniai - OmniAI standardizes the APIs for multiple AI providers like OpenAI's Chat GPT, Mistral's LeChat, Claude's Anthropic, Google's Gemini and DeepSeek's Chat..