Pasture

Yes, completely. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. Pasture is free now and will stay free.

Never. Your conversations stay on your local network, moving only between your iPhone and your Mac. Pasture has no servers and no analytics. Nothing is sent to any cloud service.

Any model you've pulled into Ollama — Llama, Mistral, Gemma, Phi, Qwen, and more. Pasture automatically lists whatever Ollama has installed on your Mac.

Yes, Ollama is required. It's a free, open-source tool that runs AI models locally on your Mac. Install it at ollama.com, pull a model, and Pasture will find it automatically.

Yes, with Tailscale installed on both your iPhone and Mac. Pasture detects Tailscale and connects over your private network the same way it does on local Wi-Fi — from a café, hotel, or anywhere.

iCloud is used only to securely pair your iPhone with your Mac. No chat data or messages are ever stored in iCloud — it's just the handshake that lets the two devices trust each other.

The Mac App Store has sandboxing restrictions that conflict with how Pasture communicates on the local network. The DMG is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple, so macOS Gatekeeper trusts it the same way it would trust an App Store app.

Yes. Pasture for Mac is notarized by Apple, which means Apple has scanned it for malware. macOS Gatekeeper will accept it without any security warnings on first launch.

Two ways: tap Report a Problem inside TestFlight (it captures a screenshot and device logs automatically), or email hi@pasture.sh with a description, screenshots, and any relevant logs. Both are monitored closely.

Yes, Pasture is fully open-source. Pull requests, bug fixes, and feature ideas are very welcome — head to github.com/pasture-sh/pasture to get started.