Bedrock for Mac is an open-source native macOS client for Amazon Bedrock, published by AWS Samples on GitHub with about 450 stars under the MIT-0 license and updates in 2026. It brings Bedrock’s models into a proper Mac app for conversations, documents, images, and local tools.
The app connects directly to your AWS account, and conversations stay on your Mac rather than passing through a third-party service. You can search and favorite models from the composer, and switch models in the middle of an existing conversation while keeping its context and draft. The interface is a comfortable native Swift app with Light, Dark, and System appearances and a full-height frosted sidebar. Beyond chat, it works with documents and images and can call local tools, making it a practical desktop front end for the range of foundation models available through Bedrock. A signed DMG can be downloaded from the repository’s releases, or you can build from source.
As an AWS Samples project, the app also serves as reference code for building native Apple clients against Bedrock, demonstrating conversations, document handling, image generation, and local tool use in Swift. Settings keep a single default-model picker with an immutable model ID, which avoids the common confusion of silently chatting with a different model than the one you selected.
Bedrock for Mac is free and open source under the MIT-0 license. You pay only for your own Amazon Bedrock usage through your AWS account, at AWS’s standard model pricing.
It suits Mac users and AWS customers who want a polished native way to chat with and compare Bedrock models, especially people who prefer their conversation data to stay local while still using cloud models.