AI coach
Get the Mac app
The AI coach lives in the SolveLab Mac app. It runs on your Mac, so it's free and your questions never leave it. The website keeps everything else.
Download
Download for MacThe app is free. It isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS warns you the first time you open it; follow a short guide below. On a school or parent-managed Mac, ask whoever manages it.
How to open SolveLab on your Mac
SolveLab isn't from the App Store or registered with Apple, so the first time you open it your Mac stops it. That's expected: you confirm once, and after that it opens like any other app.
1. Install
- Download the .dmg file and double-click it.
- Drag SolveLab onto the Applications folder, then eject the SolveLab disk.
- Keep it in Applications: updates and Google sign-in only work from there.
2. First open on macOS 15 Sequoia or newer
- Double-click SolveLab. When it says Apple could not verify it, click Done (not Move to Trash).
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to Security and click Open Anyway. The button shows for about an hour after you tried to open the app.
- Click Open Anyway (or Open) again and type your Mac password. If it asks for an administrator, ask whoever set up the Mac (usually a parent).
First open on macOS 14 Sonoma
In Applications, Control-click (or right-click) SolveLab, choose Open, then click Open. The System Settings way above works too.
If something goes wrong
- School or work Mac: it may block apps from outside the App Store completely. Don't try to get around it; use the website instead.
- “SolveLab is damaged”: macOS says this about apps with no signature. SolveLab is signed, so the download probably broke. Delete it and download it again. Don't paste Terminal commands from the internet to fix it.
- “Will damage your computer” or malware: don't open it. Move it to the Trash and tell us.
Based on Apple's Safely open apps on your Mac.
What the coach does
- Reads your solve profile, goal, course and Learning Hub path.
- Answers questions in plain words: why you're stuck and what to do this week.
- Points only to SolveLab's real training packs and tests, and flags names that don't exist.
Private, on your Mac
- Your questions, the replies and your numbers go only to the model on your Mac.
- Chats are kept on your Mac and are deleted when you sign out of the app.
- The model is downloaded from Ollama's servers. That download sends no SolveLab data.
What you need
- An Apple silicon Mac (M1 or newer)
- macOS 14 or newer
- About 2–7 GB of free disk for the coach’s model
- An administrator password, to install Ollama (the program that runs the model)
Bluetooth timers stay on the website, in Chrome.
No Mac? Take your numbers with you
Copies a short summary of your solve profile, numbers only and never your name, email or notes, to paste into any AI you already use. SolveLab sends it nowhere; what you paste is between you and that service.
What gets copied
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