MaiD
A focused, native Markdown editor for macOS — side-by-side live preview, an outline built from your headings, native Mermaid diagrams, and one-click HTML and PDF export. Sandboxed, no network access.
Australware
Focused, native software for the Mac.
Australware is a small studio building Mac apps the way Macs were meant to be used — native, fast, sandboxed, and respectful of your time and data. No Electron, no accounts, no subscriptions, no telemetry.
What we build
ChessLLM
Play chess against the large language model of your choice. Frontier cloud models via OpenRouter, or run entirely offline with LMStudio, llama.cpp, or Ollama. Streaming commentary in four tones.
swift-mermaid
A pure-Swift Mermaid renderer for Apple platforms.
No JavaScript engine, no WKWebView, no network entitlement — for sandboxed
apps that need Markdown previews with diagrams.
Principles
Native, not wrapped
SwiftUI and AppKit, drawn with Core Graphics and Core Text. The Mac is a platform, not a delivery target for a browser engine.
Your data stays on your Mac
Sandboxed by default. Where an app needs network access, it's because you turned it on — and the destination is one you can see.
No accounts, no subscriptions
Buy it once, own it. We don't have a server to log into and we don't have one to take down later.
Determinism over magic
Predictable output, reproducible builds, and clean error paths beat clever heuristics you can't debug.
Contact
Questions, bug reports, and feature requests: support@australware.io. Open-source work lives on GitHub.