BoltManager

The problem

bolt.diy is a powerful local AI coding workspace, but it lives behind a terminal: you start a Node and Vite server by hand, watch raw logs scroll past, and juggle browser tabs. For anyone who isn't at home on the command line, that friction is the barrier.

The approach

BoltManager wraps bolt.diy in a real Mac app. One click starts and stops the server, with the whole process tree cleaned up on quit so nothing is left holding a port. The workspace runs in a native window, and a live console streams output with plain-English cards for the common failures: port conflicts, missing Node, missing dependencies.

An AI Home reads your Mac's hardware and helps pick a model for the task, so the choice between a cloud model and a local one is obvious rather than a research project.

What we built

A native macOS app in Swift and SwiftUI: one-click server control with clean process teardown, an embedded workspace, a live console with a command input, smart error cards, a model reference, menu-bar control, and native theming with Liquid Glass materials. It is a controller for the open-source bolt.diy project, not a fork of it.