diff --git a/candle-core/Cargo.toml b/candle-core/Cargo.toml
index 88fc9f91..f840842f 100644
--- a/candle-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/candle-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ readme = "README.md"
 accelerate-src = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 byteorder = { workspace = true }
 candle-kernels = { path = "../candle-kernels", version = "0.3.0", optional = true }
-candle-metal = { path = "../candle-metal", version = "0.0.1", optional = true }
+candle-metal-kernels = { path = "../candle-metal-kernels", version = "0.0.1", optional = true }
 metal = { workspace = true, optional = true}
 cudarc = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 gemm = { workspace = true }
@@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ cuda = ["cudarc", "dep:candle-kernels"]
 cudnn = ["cuda", "cudarc/cudnn"]
 mkl = ["dep:libc", "dep:intel-mkl-src"]
 accelerate = ["dep:libc", "dep:accelerate-src"]
-metal = ["dep:candle-metal", "dep:metal"]
+metal = ["dep:candle-metal-kernels", "dep:metal"]
diff --git a/candle-core/src/metal_backend.rs b/candle-core/src/metal_backend.rs
index fae1b341..c618cba3 100644
--- a/candle-core/src/metal_backend.rs
+++ b/candle-core/src/metal_backend.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use crate::backend::{BackendDevice, BackendStorage};
 use crate::conv::{ParamsConv1D, ParamsConv2D, ParamsConvTranspose2D};
 use crate::op::{BinaryOpT, CmpOp, ReduceOp, UnaryOpT};
 use crate::{CpuStorage, DType, Layout, Result, Shape};
-pub use candle_metal;
+pub use candle_metal_kernels;
 use core::mem;
 use half::{bf16, f16};
 use metal;
diff --git a/candle-metal/Cargo.toml b/candle-metal-kernels/Cargo.toml
similarity index 91%
rename from candle-metal/Cargo.toml
rename to candle-metal-kernels/Cargo.toml
index f892006e..92bc12ff 100644
--- a/candle-metal/Cargo.toml
+++ b/candle-metal-kernels/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [package]
-name = "candle-metal"
+name = "candle-metal-kernels"
 version = "0.0.1"
 edition = "2021"
 
diff --git a/candle-metal/README.md b/candle-metal-kernels/README.md
similarity index 100%
rename from candle-metal/README.md
rename to candle-metal-kernels/README.md
diff --git a/candle-metal/src/lib.rs b/candle-metal-kernels/src/lib.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from candle-metal/src/lib.rs
rename to candle-metal-kernels/src/lib.rs