Zenpa

Zenpa pitches itself as a private AI assistant that runs entirely on your Mac. The key promise: it remembers everything across your work and you ask it once to get answers with sources. The decision in one app, the date in another, the spec in a document. Zenpa connects those dots without sending your data to a cloud server.

The "100% local" and "Swiss made" positioning is deliberate. Privacy-conscious users, especially in regulated industries (legal, finance, healthcare) or in companies with strict data policies, cannot use cloud-based AI assistants that might leak confidential information. A local-first AI that never sends data externally solves that problem. The 7-day free trial lets you test whether the local model is smart enough to be useful before committing.

The security email address (security@zenpa.ai) rather than a general support address tells me they take the privacy positioning seriously enough to have a dedicated security contact. That is a detail most early-stage products skip.

The competitive landscape includes Apple Intelligence (which is local but limited), Copilot for Mac (cloud-based), and various local LLM tools like LM Studio and Ollama frontends. Zenpa differentiates by being a polished product rather than a tool for running models. The question is whether a local model on a Mac is powerful enough to deliver the "remember everything and connect the dots" experience, or whether the local constraint makes it too dumb to be worth using.