The on-device, one-time alternative to Spellbook.
OhmsCounsel is a 100% on-device contract-review assistant for macOS — a one-time-purchase alternative to per-seat legal AI subscriptions like Spellbook that reviews agreements, checks them against your own clause playbook, and surfaces risk entirely on your Mac, with no account and no contract text ever sent to a server.
OhmsCounsel vs Spellbook.
on-device · vs cloud| Dimension | OhmsCounsel | Cloud legal AI (Spellbook) |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | On your Mac (Apple Silicon, offline) | Their cloud LLM |
| Your contracts | Never leave your Mac | Sent to servers for analysis |
| Account | None required | Per-seat license |
| Pricing | One-time $39.99 | Per-seat subscription |
| Clause playbook | Define positions; meets / fallback / deviates / missing | Cloud drafting & review |
| Confidentiality | Privileged docs stay local | Uploaded to a third party |
| Minimum commitment | None | Seat minimums / annual terms |
| Works without internet | Yes, after model download | No |
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Spellbook alternative, answered.
OhmsCounsel · on-deviceYes, for on-device contract review. OhmsCounsel reads an agreement and surfaces risk and clause coverage like a cloud legal copilot, but runs the analysis locally on your Mac — so privileged documents never go to a third-party server.
No. Documents are imported into a local library and analyzed on-device with Apple's MLX framework. The only outbound traffic is the optional model-weight download, which never includes your documents.
OhmsCounsel is a one-time $39.99 purchase with no seat licensing. Spellbook is sold as a per-seat subscription, typically with annual terms and seat minimums for teams.
No. OhmsCounsel provides informational document analysis to make your own review faster. It is not legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Keep your work on your Mac.
OhmsCounsel is coming soon to the Mac App Store. No subscription, no account, nothing uploaded — a private, on-device alternative to Spellbook.