Vinaa

Vinaa is a native Mac app that keeps your AI chats, projects, files, and models together in one place.

You bring your own API keys for providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, or use local models through Ollama and LM Studio. You can switch models mid-thread, keep months of chats in projects and folders, attach files, search the web, run tools, and come back later without digging through browser tabs.

Because Vinaa is built around the experience first.

It should feel like a real macOS app: fast, practical, carefully crafted, and comfortable to keep open all day.

Your AI work should stay organized around what you are doing, with conversations, context, tools, and models easy to find without taking over the interface.

No. Vinaa is built as a real Mac app, with SwiftUI, AppKit, and Rust where they make sense. Not Electron. Not Tauri. Not a web view wearing a Mac costume.

That matters in the details: multiple windows and tabs, native Mac controls, smooth rendering without flicker, faster startup, lower memory use, and the kind of system integration Mac users expect.

The result is a faster, more stable app that fits naturally into the way you already use your Mac.

They stay on your Mac.

Vinaa stores your chats locally in SQLite. If you choose iCloud sync, the sync happens through your iCloud. Messages go directly from your Mac to the AI provider you selected, using your key.

The app may optionally collect the boring diagnostics and analytics needed to make it reliable, but not the words you type. A private question should not become someone else's dataset.

Vinaa will be sold as a one-time purchase, not a monthly subscription.

The standard license is perpetual: buy once, use that version forever, with one year of updates included. After that, you can keep using the app, or pay a discounted renewal if you want more updates.

There will also be a higher-priced lifetime license for people who want lifetime updates.

In the future, there may be features that cost money to run, such as servers or cloud storage, and those will be offered as optional add-ons or subscriptions. The core app will have a one-time purchase option.

My name is Sujeevan. I live in New Zealand and build Mac software.

Vinaa means "questions" in my language, Tamil. I chose it because every AI chat starts with a question.

I also build FileMinutes, a native macOS app for finding files faster. Vinaa is built with the same approach: practical, private, and carefully crafted for Mac.

If that sounds like the kind of software you want more of, join the waitlist. I will send a note when Vinaa is ready.