Local AI Apps for iPhone and iPad

WhisperLive turns speech into text as audio arrives, using OpenAI's Whisper models. It's for developers and teams who want to run transcription on their own machine or server and connect it to live audio or recorded files.

Sandbook is an offline text-to-speech reader for iPhone and iPad, for people who want to listen to books and documents without uploading them. It runs Kokoro-82M on the device through Apple MLX, with the speech model and voices included in the app. It needs no account and has no ads or tracking.

Karakeep is a bookmark manager for people collecting articles, notes, images and PDFs for later use. It keeps saved material searchable and can preserve pages after their original links disappear.

LiteRT-LM is Google's open-source framework for developers building apps that run language models on the user's device. It uses LiteRT for local inference across mobile devices, desktops and browsers, with GPU and NPU acceleration. The project uses the Apache 2.0 license.

PocketPal AI runs language models on phones and tablets for people who want an assistant they can use without sending conversations to a server. Core chat works offline after a model download and doesn't require an account.

Draw Things creates and edits images on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It's for artists and other creators who want to work offline and keep generation on their own hardware.

Hillnote is a writing and planning workspace for people who want local files and AI help inside their editor. It keeps your work as plain Markdown on disk, readable by other editors and accessible to AI agents.

Lumina Note is a Markdown note-taking app for people who want AI help with writing and organizing a note collection. Its agent can work across the vault with your permission, while notes remain plain files you can edit and back up outside the app.

MiniCPM is a family of compact language models for developers building local assistants and coding agents. It targets on-device workloads and hardware with limited computing resources.

MiniCPM-V is a family of local vision-language models for developers building applications that interpret images and video. It can run on phones and other hardware you control.

ncnn is a C++ inference framework for developers adding on-device AI to mobile, desktop and embedded applications. It focuses on a small memory footprint and doesn't require third-party runtime dependencies.

ONNX Runtime is an AI inference and training engine for developers adding models to apps and services. It supports deployment on a user's device or a server, including applications that need the same model format across platforms.

Conduit is a native mobile AI client for people who want access to their self-hosted models and agents from an iPhone or Android phone. It can connect through Open WebUI or directly to a model endpoint.

MLC LLM is a compiler and deployment engine for developers running language models on their own hardware or building AI into apps. Its shared MLCEngine supports deployment across desktop computers, mobile devices and browsers.

Anarlog, formerly Hyprnote, is a desktop AI meeting notetaker for people who want to keep sensitive conversations on their own hardware. It's an open-source Granola alternative that combines personal notes with meeting transcripts.

Haplo AI runs language models on iOS and macOS for people who want to ask questions, write code or examine photos without sending that material to a hosted assistant. After downloading a model, chat works offline without an account.

ReadAny is an AI e-book reader for people who want to question a book, find an idea they remember imperfectly and keep notes alongside their reading. It combines a personal library with answers tied to book passages.

Moshi is a voice AI model and dialogue framework for researchers and developers building spoken applications. It processes speech directly and can listen while it speaks, including information such as emotion and non-verbal cues.

AppFlowy is a workspace for documents, projects and AI. Its desktop Local AI plugin connects to Ollama for local model use. AppFlowy also offers a self-hosted server deployment with language and embedding models inside your environment, including air-gapped operation. The desktop plugin and server deployment are distinct ways to use AI.

OpenWhispr is a dictation and meeting transcription app for people who want to write by voice and keep searchable records of conversations. It lets you choose local processing or cloud providers.

Aiko turns recorded meetings, lectures and voice memos into text for people who want to keep their audio on their own device. It processes completed recordings rather than live speech and doesn't identify individual speakers.

NoteGen is an AI note-taking app for collecting research, meeting material and ideas before organizing them into finished documents. Notes remain ordinary Markdown files, with attachments stored on your device by default.

VoiceInk is a local AI dictation app for Mac users who want to speak emails, notes, and prompts into the applications they already use. Speech transcription works offline.

Cloak by Polyaura is an on-device AI app for people who want to chat and work with voice recordings on their iPhone or iPad without sending them to a cloud service. It works without an internet connection after the initial model download.

Tiledesk is an AI chatbot and live chat platform for teams handling customer support and internal information searches. Its visual builder lets teams design conversations and automated workflows without writing code.

Ente Photos is a Google Photos alternative for people who want to back up and share their library without letting the storage provider read its contents. You can self-host its server or use Ente's hosted service.

Superwhisper turns spoken words into text in the app you're using. It suits people who prefer dictating messages, documents or requests to coding assistants over typing them.

Enconvo is a native Mac AI assistant for people who want help with writing, research and tasks inside their everyday apps. It uses screen and selected-text context so you can ask about what you're working on without moving everything into a separate chat.

LLM Farm is an app for on-device AI conversations and comparing language models on Apple hardware. It suits people who want offline chat or need to assess which model fits a project.

Private LLM runs AI chat on iPhone, iPad and Mac for people who want to use language models without sending conversations to a cloud service. It works offline after the first model download and doesn't require an account.

Immersive Translate is a translation extension for people reading foreign-language articles, research and work documents. It keeps the original text beside the translation so readers can compare passages.

MediaPipe is a toolkit for developers adding on-device AI to applications. It provides pretrained models and task APIs for applications that need to process images, video, text or audio on the user's device.

LibrePhotos is a self-hosted photo manager for people who want to organize and search a photo library on their own server. It scans photos already on your file system and uses AI to help find images without manually tagging each one.

Amical is an AI dictation app for people who want to write emails, messages and coding prompts by speaking. It adjusts the resulting text to the app you're using, reducing the editing needed after transcription.

Immich is a self-hosted photo and video manager for people who want to keep their collection on their own server. Its mobile apps and web interface provide access to the same library.

ExecuTorch is an on-device AI runtime for developers adding PyTorch models to apps and embedded devices. It handles inference on the user's hardware across Android, iOS, macOS, Linux and Windows, as well as embedded systems and microcontrollers.