Local AI Apps for iPhone and iPad

llama.rn brings llama.cpp into React Native apps so developers can run local LLM inference on iOS and Android. It's an MIT-licensed library for building AI features into a mobile app, with model processing on the device. It uses GGUF models and requires React Native's New Architecture.

Immersive Translate is an AI translation extension and mobile app that keeps original text alongside its translation. It's aimed at students, researchers and people who read foreign-language material for work. The bilingual page layout lets readers compare passages without replacing the source text.

Enconvo is a native AI assistant and agent for Mac that can use your screen and selected text as context, then work inside your apps. It's for people who want help with writing, research and everyday tasks alongside the app they're using. A sidebar keeps the agent beside the current app, while text selection tools give quick access to editing and translation.

InsightFace is a face analysis toolkit for developers and teams building identity verification, access control, or face editing software. The code uses the MIT license. Its Python tools and self-hosted recognition server run inference on your own hardware. It also offers commercial models and API access for face swapping and deepfake detection.

Logseq is an AGPL-3.0 knowledge base with an outline editor, linked references and block references. It combines note-taking with task management, PDF annotations and flashcards. Search and queries can gather related information into tables.

Reins is an open-source chat app for people using self-hosted LLMs through Ollama. It runs on iOS, Android, macOS, Linux and Windows, giving Ollama users a mobile and desktop interface for experimenting with models. Reins is the client; Ollama provides the model backend.

Cactus is an on-device AI engine for developers building automation into mobile apps, wearables and embedded devices. Its Needle model handles tool calling locally, so a device can turn a request into an action without an internet connection. The focus is small devices, including smart home hardware, robots and microcontrollers.

Moshi is a voice AI model and dialogue framework that can listen while it speaks. It processes speech directly, retaining information such as emotion and non-verbal cues that a text transcription can miss. It's aimed at researchers and developers building spoken AI applications, with local inference and self-hosted server options.

TorchAO is a PyTorch library for developers who want to train or run models on their own hardware with less memory and faster computation. It reduces the precision of model weights and activations, with options for language models and image or video generation. Its PyTorch integration works with torch.compile and FSDP2 across most Hugging Face PyTorch models.

ONNX Runtime is an open source inference and training engine for developers building AI into apps and services. It runs ONNX models across desktop systems, mobile devices, web browsers and servers. It's a fit when you need the same model format to work in several places, including on a user's device.

Superwhisper is an AI dictation app for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that turns speech into text in the app you're using. It's for people who prefer speaking to typing, including developers dictating requests to coding assistants. Speech recognition can run locally and offline, or use cloud models for remote processing.

PocketPal AI is an open source assistant for people who want to run language models on a phone or tablet. It works on iOS, iPadOS and Android. Once you've downloaded a model, you can chat offline without an account, and your prompts, replies and documents stay on your device. The app is licensed under MIT.

Draw Things is an AI image generation app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that keeps generation on your device and works offline. It's for people who want to create and edit images without sending that work to a cloud service, including artists developing character concepts or trying out apparel designs.

Inbox Zero is an AI email assistant you can self-host with Docker or use as a hosted service. It's for people handling busy Gmail, Google Workspace, or Microsoft Outlook inboxes who want help sorting mail and preparing replies. It works alongside your existing email client.

MLC LLM is an open-source compiler and deployment engine for developers who want to run language models on their own hardware or inside apps. Its main distinction is the range of devices it targets: the same underlying engine, MLCEngine, serves desktop, browser and mobile deployments. The project uses the Apache 2.0 license.

Chatbox is an AI chat client for people who want local models and cloud providers in the same app. It connects to Ollama for local LLM use and supports GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek with your own API keys. Chatbox also offers its own hosted model service.

Lemonade is an open source local AI server for people who want to use models on their own hardware or connect them to apps and agents. It handles chat, coding, image generation, speech, transcription, and embeddings. A built-in interface lets you use those capabilities directly, while its server makes them available to other software.

Tiledesk is a self-hosted platform for building AI agents and connecting them to human support teams. It's aimed at businesses automating customer conversations, internal information searches and workflows through a visual builder. You can run it on your own server with Docker or Kubernetes, or use its hosted cloud service.

BAML is a programming language for developers building AI agents, with typed model calls and local tracing built into the language. It runs standalone on macOS, Linux and Windows, or alongside an existing application. The language is open source under Apache 2.0, and works offline.

Enchanted is a ChatGPT alternative for macOS, iOS and visionOS that connects to models on your own Ollama server. It's for people who want an Apple app for chatting with privately hosted models such as Llama 2, Mistral, Vicuna and Starling. You supply the model server. The app is open source under the Apache License 2.0.

Linkwarden is a self-hosted bookmark manager for people and teams who want to keep the pages behind their saved links. It archives webpages as HTML, screenshots, and PDFs, so you can revisit the content even if the original site removes it. It's useful for research, shared reference collections, and articles you want to read later.

AppFlowy is a self-hosted Notion alternative for teams that want project management, shared documents, and AI in an environment they control. Its self-hosted enterprise offering can run on premises, in your own cloud, or in an air-gapped environment. Self-hosted LLMs and embedding models let you keep AI processing and workspace data inside your infrastructure, with no vendor access to your instance.

Google AI Edge Gallery is an open-source app for people who want to try generative AI on their own phone. It runs model inference locally, so offline chat, image analysis and audio tasks don't send your inputs to a server. It supports Android and iOS and uses the Apache 2.0 license.

Liquid Apollo is an AI chat app for iPhone and iPad. Liquid LEAP runs smaller language models directly on your device, so local conversations do not depend on a cloud service. The app also runs on compatible Apple Silicon Macs.

Google AI Edge Eloquent is an AI dictation app for iPhone and iPad that turns spoken thoughts into edited text using on-device Gemma models. It's for people who prefer speaking to typing but don't want every hesitation or self-correction carried into their notes and drafts.