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Nativ is a native macOS app that lets you run AI models locally on Apple silicon, offering chat, model management, performance analytics, and an OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API server.
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FR-AI / ANALYSISWhy it is worth attention
It solves a common frustration for remote workers and fleet managers by providing persistent visual identity per machine, with cross-platform support, scriptable attention alerts, and a fleet-wide configuration file.
Who it is for
- Remote workers managing multiple machines
- IT administrators with heterogenous fleets
- Developers or operators using AI agents that need human intervention
- Jump Desktop / Screen Sharing users
Use cases
- Identifying which machine you've remoted into by a colored frame and name tag
- Alerting a user via attention alerts when an automated script needs input
- Managing fleet identities via a shared JSON file synced across machines
- Quickly glancing at system info (uptime, IP, CPU, RAM) from the menu bar
Strengths
- Cross-platform support (macOS, Windows, Linux) with consistent features
- Non-intrusive overlays that don't consume workspace and are click-through
- Fleet file for centralized configuration across machines
- CLI and Darwin notifications for scripting attention alerts and splash
Considerations
- Splash triggers are heuristic-based due to lack of public remote session API on macOS
- Linux version requires GTK4 runtime and is best-effort on Wayland
- No official package manager for Windows (only zip release)
README quick start
Nameplate
Brand every machine in your fleet — macOS, Windows, and Linux — so you always know which one you just remoted into.
If you drive a herd of Macs over Jump Desktop, Screen Sharing, or any other remote desktop, the screens all look the same. Nameplate gives each Mac an unmistakable identity — like an aircraft livery — rendered as click-through overlays that float above everything:
- Frame — a colored border around every display, with rounded corners that follow the screen's curve. Always visible, costs zero pixels of workspace, survives fullscreen apps.
- Name tag — a small pill with the Mac's name (and an optional emoji glyph) pinned to a corner.
- Watermark — a big translucent name across the screen, readable from across the room.
- Connect splash — the machine's identity locks into focus with a traced perimeter and animated nameplate when a remote session likely just started, then dissolves.
- Menu bar plate — a colored mini-nameplate (plus the name) in the menu bar. Its menu doubles as a glanceable dashboard: uptime, IP address (click to copy), CPU load, RAM, and free disk, plus layer toggles.
- Attention alerts — a bundled CLI lets agents and scripts summon a topmost message card with pulsating screen borders when they need the human (e.g. right before a 1Password auth prompt).
Your wallpaper stays untouched — everything is a transparent overlay, so you can keep any background you like.
Each Mac gets a stable default color derived from its hostname, so even an unconfigured fleet is instantly tellable-apart.
Install
macOS — download the DMG (drag to install), or:
brew install --cask steipete/tap/nameplate
Windows — grab Nameplate-Windows-x64.zip (or arm64) from the latest release: a single self-contained nameplate.exe (tray app + CLI in one binary). Source lives in windows/.
Linux — install with Homebrew:
brew install steipete/tap/nameplate
Or grab Nameplate-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz (or arm64) from the latest release; the tarball requires the system GTK4 runtime. B
Description
Brand every Mac in your fleet — colored frame, name tag, watermark, and connect splash as click-through overlays. Never wonder which Mac you remoted into again.
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