# Install nativ with Homebrew Cask

Run AI models locally. Version 0.4.4 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cask:nativ
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew Cask (100%):

```sh
brew install --cask nativ
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew cask metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** cask:nativ
- **Package manager:** Homebrew Cask
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/nativ>
- **Version:** 0.4.4
- **Source summary:** Run AI models locally
- **Homepage:** <https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Blaizzy/nativ>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/>
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/Blaizzy/nativ/releases/download/v0.4.4/Nativ-0.4.4.dmg>
- **Generated:** 2026-11-04T12:20:42+00:00

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-11-04
- Package-manager version: 0.4.4
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/Blaizzy/nativ
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Project history and usage

Nativ is an open-source native macOS workspace that runs AI models locally on Apple silicon and serves them through familiar API interfaces.

### Project history

Nativ was developed as an open-source, native macOS workspace for downloading, running, and interacting with AI models locally on Apple silicon. Its documentation has expanded beyond chat and model management to cover voice, routines, extensions, MCP integrations, developer diagnostics, and image generation.

### Adoption history

Nativ is distributed as a native macOS application and through a Homebrew cask. Its integration documentation targets coding agents and editors that can consume OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible local endpoints.

### How it is used

Users download or select a local model, load it in Nativ, and either chat in the application or connect another program to its local OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible endpoint. Chat sessions are stored beneath `~/Library/Application Support/Nativ/`, but the reviewed documentation does not identify a single supported configuration file.

### Why package nerds care

Nativ belongs to the recent class of Apple-silicon model runners that turn locally downloaded models into reusable, API-compatible services. Package users care because one desktop installation can supply models to several otherwise cloud-oriented developer tools.

### Timeline

- Early releases: Nativ established a macOS interface for running local models.
- Later development: The project added agent/editor integrations, MCP hosting, routines, voice, image generation, and developer tooling.

### Related projects

- Its documented integrations include Codex, Claude Code, Aider, Goose, OpenCode, Zed, Continue, Cursor, and JetBrains tools.
- It exposes OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible local APIs.

### Sources

- Documentation index: https://github.com/Blaizzy/nativ/blob/main/Docs/README.md
- Integration guide: https://github.com/Blaizzy/nativ/blob/main/INTEGRATIONS.md
- Official repository: https://github.com/Blaizzy/nativ
- source_facts.package-manager.brew-cask: nativ


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for nativ. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew cask API
- **Tap:** homebrew/cask
- **Full Token:** nativ
- **Names:** Nativ
- **Depends On:** Arch: {'type': 'arm', 'bits': 64}, Macos: >=: 26
- **Artifacts:** App: 1, Target: 1, Zap: 1
- **Auto Updates:** yes
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no


## Related links

- [Homebrew Cask packages](https://pkg.so/homebrew-cask-packages/) - Generated from Homebrew Cask package-manager metadata.
- [Homebrew Cask applications](https://pkg.so/homebrew-cask-applications/) - Cask artifact metadata includes an app bundle.
- [AI and agent packages](https://pkg.so/ai-agent-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [exo](https://pkg.so/cask/exo/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: ai, locally, models, run.
- [node-llama-cpp](https://pkg.so/npm/node-llama-cpp/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: ai, locally, models, run.
- [vmlx](https://pkg.so/cask/vmlx/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: ai, models, run.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/nativ.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/nativ.yml)


## Sources

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- package version freshness
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