Local Chat: Private AI Chatbot 17+
Offline assistant, open LLM
Superabundant, SL
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Local Chat allows you to run the latest open language models on your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Once you've downloaded the models, you can use the chat function even when your computer is offline. Your chats remain totally private, since no internet connection is required to interact with the chatbots. It's like having your very own ChatGPT right on your device.
You can choose to save your chat history on your devices or delete your chats automatically after you're finished. Any chats that you choose to save in your history will be synced via your private iCloud storage to your other devices.
Try the latest, best-in-class models from the open-source community, including Llama 3 from Meta, Gemma 2 from Google, Phi 3 from Microsoft, Qwen 2 from Alibaba Cloud, and Mistral. Choose from different sizes to find the best fit for your device.
You can also customize the chatbot's personality with a system prompt, whether you prefer a helpful assistant, an encouraging coach, a witty conversationalist, or anything else you can imagine.
The chat function works with the following devices:
- Mac (M1 and later)
- iPhone 12 and later
- iPad Pro (M1 and later)
- iPad Air (4th generation and later)
- iPad mini (6th generation and later)
- iPad (10th generation and later)
On earlier devices, you can view your chat history from your other devices synced via your private iCloud storage.
Local Chat is just getting started, and we're planning to continue adding new features in the coming months. If you have any feedback about the app, we'd love to hear it at feedback@localchat.co.
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Privacy policy: https://localchat.co/privacy
Terms of use: https://localchat.co/terms
What’s New
Version 2025.1
This update includes performance improvements. We’d love to hear your feedback at feedback@localchat.co.
Ratings and Reviews
Great app for open-source models
This app is off to a great start, with a nice UI and a good selection of models. It’s one of the few apps that lets you run Llama 3 on an iPhone or iPad.
Hallucinations
I launched this app, I downloaded the default Chatbot, and I asked an easy question "who was Houdini, the great magician?" The question kind of answered itself but the bot went on about Houdini being a real estate developer! (Seriously!) Worse, it started repeating itself and running the same paragraph a dozen times. I'll give this three stars because it did at least do something, but the bot is seriously prone to crazy hallucinations, so much so that it makes it kind of useless, unless you just wanna run it for a laugh. The idea of running an AI on your own device sounds cool, but I find after comparing a couple of them from different developers, you can't expect the same kind of performance you get from a "non-private" AI that you run through the Internet.
Lame
The free version offers a limited selection of models, while the best ones require a pro upgrade. However, since they don’t develop the models themselves, the app functions the same regardless of which one you use. The only difference is access, which feels like more of a paywall than an added functionalit. It would make more sense if they were offering something unique, but that’s not the case. You also can’t load custom models so you can’t choose one. That’s not in their list.
Developer Response ,
Developing apps is my full-time job, and creating Local Chat has taken nearly a year of extremely hard work, including contributions to open-source software that is also used by other apps. It sounds like you would prefer for some features to be behind a paywall, but I prefer to give people the chance to try all the app's features, and they can subscribe if they want to support my work, or continue using the app for free with a smaller selection of models. Please consider changing your rating, since one-star reviews negatively impact my livelihood.
App Privacy
The developer, Superabundant, SL, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Superabundant, SL
- Size
- 6.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 17+
- Copyright
- © 2024, Superabundant, SL
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Local Chat Pro (annual) $39.99
- Local Chat Pro (monthly) $8.99
- Local Chat Pro (lifetime) $99.99