Spire

An Apple-native macOS application for running Linux containers through Apple's container runtime — with on-device MLX inference serving built in.

Download Spire 1.1.0

Notarized by Apple · macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon

Installation

Unzip and drag Spire.app to your Applications folder. The app is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple — it opens without warnings on a standard Mac. Updates are delivered automatically inside the app.

What it does

Plans and applies Apple container deployments from reviewable, typed manifests
Serves local MLX models (chat, embeddings, rerank) over an OpenAI-compatible endpoint
Exposes an MCP server so AI agents can drive deployments with operator-granted capabilities

Problems or questions

Found a bug or something confusing? File an issue — reports are read. Release history lives on the releases page.