Your data, your machine, your rules

DuckBake is a macOS app that lets you analyze your data with SQL and AI without shipping a single byte to the cloud. Powered by DuckDB, your queries run locally, your AI conversations stay on your device, and your data never leaves your machine.

The Privacy Paradox

Here's the thing about modern data tools: they're incredibly powerful and increasingly uncomfortable. Upload your spreadsheet to this web app, connect your database to that service, let this AI analyze your sensitive financial data on someone else's servers. Every convenience comes with a trade-off, and that trade-off is usually your privacy.

I wanted to build something different. Something for people who love the power of modern data analysis but aren't willing to compromise on where their data lives. Whether you're analyzing personal finances, client data, or research datasets, you shouldn't have to choose between capability and privacy.

SQL Meets AI, Locally

DuckBake brings together two powerful concepts: the precision of SQL queries and the natural language interface of AI. Need to find all transactions over $500 from Q3? You can write the SQL yourself if that's your jam. Or you can just ask in plain English and let the AI figure out the query for you. Either way, everything happens right there on your Mac.

The DuckDB engine is particularly well-suited for this kind of work. It's designed for analytical queries—the kind where you're slicing and dicing data, looking for patterns, building reports. It handles CSVs, Parquet files, JSON, and more without breaking a sweat. Point DuckBake at your data files and start asking questions immediately.

Built for the Mac

This isn't a web app wrapped in Electron, eating your RAM and pretending to be native. DuckBake is a proper macOS application, built with Swift and designed to feel at home on your Mac. It respects your system resources, integrates with your workflow, and doesn't phone home.

The interface is clean and focused: connect your data sources, write queries or chat with the AI, and get results. No accounts to create, no subscriptions to manage, no privacy policies to scrutinize. It's free, it's local, and it's yours.

The app is free. Download it from duckbake.com, point it at your data, and start exploring. Privacy isn't a feature—it's the foundation.