AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to esper - Offline & Private AI for iOS
Your choice: Mobile AI chat offline or with any online model
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi Hackers, Excited to share a macOS app I've been working on: https://recurse.chat/ for chatting with local AI. While it's amazing that you can run AI models locally quite easily these days (through llama.cpp / llamafile / ollama / llm CLI etc.), I missed feature complete chat interfaces. Tools like LMStudio are super powerful, but there's a learning curve to it. I'd like to hit a middleground of simplicity and customizability for advanced users. Here's what separates RecurseChat out from similar apps: - UX designed for you to use local AI as a daily driver.…
2024 · recurse.chat · its alternatives →
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Lekh AI▲80Run powerful AI models on your Mac:fully offline and private
Jan 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Typing Mind▲826Chat with AI using your API keys. Pay only for what you use. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other LLMs supported. The best chat LLM frontend UI for all AI models.
2023 · typingmind.com · its alternatives →
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Lapis▲79Secure, offline AI chat assistant on your device
Nov 2025 · lapis.lvrpiz.com · its alternatives →
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Llamao▲496Private & offline alternative to ChatGPT on your device
2025 · llamao.app · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, We have been building SecureAI Tools -- an open-source application layer for ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools. It works with locally running LLMs as well as with OpenAI-compatible APIs. For local LLMs, it supports Ollama which supports all the gguf/ggml models. Currently, it has two features: Chat-with-LLM, and Chat-with-PDFs. It is optimized for self-hosting use cases and comes with basic user management features. Here are some quick demos: * Chat with documents using OpenAI's GPT3.5 model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2D3G9O47s * Chat with documents…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LM Studio▲209Discover, download, and run local LLMs (incl. DeepSeek R1)
2025 · lmstudio.ai · its alternatives →
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Mneme AI ▲175Chat with your notes, documents and books on-device
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, I built this in a day while at Founders Inc Apple Vision Pro residency. Try it out, let me know what you think.
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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RunAnywhere▲119Ollama but for mobile, with a cloud fallback
2025 · runanywhere.ai · its alternatives →
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fullmoon▲321Chat with private and local large language models
2025 · fullmoon.app · its alternatives →
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We built SwiftAI, an open-source Swift library that lets you use Apple’s on-device LLMs when available (Apple opened access in June), and fall back to a cloud model when they aren’t available — all without duplicating code. SwiftAI gives you: - A single, model-agnostic API - An agent/tool loop - Strongly-typed structured outputs - Optional chat state Backstory: We started experimenting with Apple’s local models because they’re free (no API calls), private, and work offline. The problem: not all devices support them (older iPhones, Apple Intelligence disabled, low battery, etc.). That…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Browser LLM demo working on JavaScript and WebGPU. WebGPU is already supported in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, iOS (v26) and Android. Demo, similar to ChatGPT https://andreinwald.github.io/browser-llm/ Code https://github.com/andreinwald/browser-llm - No need to use your OPENAI_API_KEY - its local model that runs on your device - No network requests to any API - No need to install any program - No need to download files on your device (model is cached in browser) - Site will ask before downloading large files (llm model) to browser cache - Hosted on Github…
2025 · andreinwald.github.io · its alternatives →
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Your phone has a GPU more powerful than most 2018 laptops. Right now it sits idle while you pay monthly subscriptions to run AI on someone else's server, sending your conversations, your photos, your voice to companies whose privacy policy you've never read. Off Grid is an open-source app that puts that hardware to work. Text generation, image generation, vision AI, voice transcription — all running on your phone, all offline, nothing ever uploaded. That means you can use AI on a flight with no wifi. In a country with internet censorship. In a hospital where cloud services are a compliance…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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WriteMage▲127The only AI app you need, use ChatGPT natively in any app
2023 · writemage.com · its alternatives →
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Omnibot ▲8Chat with LLMs offline. no tech skills required
2024 · newmoviesonline.cc · its alternatives →
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