Weft · Free for Mac
If you text an AI assistant, your boss, or the family group about everything in one long conversation, it turns into a scroll of mixed subjects. Weft reads your conversations on your Mac and sorts each one into topics you can open, read and reply in, like separate email threads.
Free and open source (MIT). Requires macOS 15 or later.
Reads, never rewrites
No account, no tracking
Free and open source
What it does
A Mac app that turns one endless Messages conversation into topic threads, files new messages as they arrive, and keeps a list of the follow-ups you still owe or are waiting on.
New messages are filed into the right topic a few seconds after they arrive, or a new topic is started. When a conversation comes back to an earlier subject, it lands in that same topic. After the first sort, Weft keeps sorting the older part of a long conversation in the background — you can turn this off in Settings.
Your reply is sent through Messages as you, and Weft shows who it goes to. It starts with “Re: <topic> —” so other participants know which subject you mean (you can turn this off). In group chats, replies go to the whole group, including groups with Android members, sent as regular texts through your iPhone.
Weft keeps a list of requests that haven’t been answered yet and promises that haven’t been kept, split into Owed by me and Waiting on them. Each can have a due date or be snoozed, Weft reminds you with a notification, and each one links back to the message it came from.
Right-click to rename or merge topics, move a message to another topic, or split a topic, with Undo (⌘Z). Right-click a conversation to pause its sorting or keep it to recent messages only. The Activity button shows what Weft is working on.
Add as many conversations as you like and drag them into your own order. Group chats show who sent each message. Photos and files open with a click, reactions show just like in Messages, and contact names appear next to numbers if you allow Contacts access. Search one conversation or all of them. A red count on the Dock icon and optional notifications tell you about new messages.
Sorting is done by Claude (a Claude subscription plus Claude Code), ChatGPT (a ChatGPT subscription plus the Codex CLI), Gemini (a Google account plus the Gemini CLI) or Grok (a Grok subscription plus the Grok CLI), each signed in with your normal account; or by Ollama or LM Studio, with nothing to pay for. Weft never asks for an API key. With Ollama or LM Studio, message processing stays on your Mac.
Privacy
Weft reads your Messages history only on your Mac and never changes it. It only sends a message when you press Send.
Before a conversation is sent to an AI for the first time, Weft asks, showing which AI, where it goes and how much of the history. To sort, it sends the text of the conversations you added (and who sent each message) to the AI you chose, and nothing else. With Ollama or LM Studio, message processing stays on your Mac.
Weft has no account, no server, no analytics and no tracking. At launch it contacts GitHub to check for updates and to read its model recommendations; GitHub sees your internet address, and no messages or personal data are sent. Notifications can show message text on the lock screen, so there is a setting to show only “New message” instead.
Contacts access is optional. Weft shows names next to numbers, and the names are also part of the text sent to the AI you chose, so it knows who said what. Without Contacts access, phone numbers and email addresses are sent instead. With Ollama or LM Studio, message processing stays on your Mac.
The first time you send a reply from Weft, macOS asks whether Weft may control Messages. Click Allow. Weft checks for new versions and offers to install them (Weft → Check for Updates…).
Yes. Weft is free and open source under the MIT licence. Download it from the Releases page on GitHub. The sorting is done by an AI you already have: a Claude subscription plus Claude Code, a ChatGPT subscription plus the Codex CLI, a Google account plus the Gemini CLI, or a Grok subscription plus the Grok CLI, each signed in with your normal account; or Ollama or LM Studio running on your Mac, with nothing to pay for.
Weft needs a Mac running macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, Apple Silicon or Intel, with Messages set up on that Mac. It is Mac only. iOS doesn't let apps read your messages, and Android only lets an app do so if it is your default texting app.
No. Weft never asks for an API key, and it has no account, no server, no analytics and no tracking. The subscription options use the command-line tool each company makes, signed in with your normal account.
To sort, Weft sends the text of the conversations you added (and who sent each message) to the AI you chose, and nothing else. With Claude that is Anthropic, with ChatGPT it is OpenAI, with Gemini it is Google and with Grok it is xAI. With Ollama or LM Studio, message processing stays on your Mac. Before a conversation is sent to an AI for the first time, Weft asks, showing which AI, where it goes and how much of the history.
Messages stores its history in a protected folder, so macOS requires Full Disk Access before Weft can read it. Weft reads your Messages history only on your Mac and never changes it.
No. Weft never changes your Messages history. It only reads it, and sends a message when you press Send.
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