Use OpenSource LLMs on iOS for Privacy

Ibrahim Zaman
2 min readFeb 23, 2025

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In this blog you will learn to run OpenSource Models on iPhone for private chats;

Here is the list of apps you can install on your iPhone to run these models:

1. Pocketpal AI

Opensource project on github offering ios as well as android. You can use Hardware acceleration of Metal GPU on iPhone in settings.

App Link:

2. Palchat AI Chat Client

Offers not just offline support but also using Closed source models via Api keys.

App Link:

3. Private LLM Local

Paid app but offers a lot of features unlike previous ones;

App link:

4. Local Chat : Private AI

App link:

5. PocketGPT : Private AI

Offers image and text generation support.

App link:

6. HuggingFace chat

Unlimited chat with huggingface hosted apps.

(Data privacy is not promised here, so be careful)

App link:

Thanks for reading (:

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Ibrahim Zaman
Ibrahim Zaman

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