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Install Nani on macOS

Drag Nani.app into Applications and you're done.

What you need

  • macOS 13 or later. macOS 14+ recommended.
  • Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) if you want to run the AI on-device. Intel Macs work — they just use OpenRouter or Ollama for the AI instead.
  • About 250 MB of disk for the app, plus ~2 GB if you choose to download the local AI model.

Get the app

Nani is in pre-release. Join the waitlist from the homepage and you'll get a download link the day the public build ships.

When you have the .dmg:

  1. Open it.
  2. Drag Nani.app into Applications.
  3. Eject the DMG.
  4. Launch Nani from Applications, Spotlight, or Launchpad.

First launch

Nani opens with a small mascot panel in the bottom-right of your screen. That's the entry point — type a prompt, hit return, and the assistant replies. There's also a menu-bar item (the ⌘ icon) that opens chat, wallet, and settings.

If macOS shows the "downloaded from the internet" warning the first time, right-click the app and choose Open. You only need to do this once.

Set up your wallet

Open the wallet from the menu bar and choose Create new wallet or Import wallet. Both flows take about 30 seconds and are covered in Wallet.

Nani uses standard BIP-39 / BIP-44 derivation, so the recovery phrase you generate works in MetaMask, Ledger Live, Trezor Suite, and any other wallet that supports those standards.

Permissions Nani uses

  • Touch ID — to sign transactions. macOS shows the standard prompt; Nani never sees your fingerprint.
  • Network — to read the chain via your RPC, talk to your AI provider if you've picked a cloud one, and call the agentek tools when the assistant uses them.

That's it. No filesystem access, no microphone, no camera, no accessibility, no full-disk-access.

Updates

Nani checks for updates on launch. When one is available you'll see a small "Relaunch to Update" prompt — click it and Nani replaces itself in place. Every update is signed; the app verifies the signature before installing. See Updates for the details.

Uninstall

Drag Nani.app to the trash. Wallet keys live in the macOS Keychain — to remove them, open Keychain Access, search com.thresholdstudio.nani, and delete the matching items. Make sure you have your recovery phrase first if you want to use the wallet again.