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Products that do what Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone does

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…

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   Run AI chat, image gen, vision, and voice offline on your Mac▲11

   Your Mac can run AI that holds its own against cloud models for the everyday stuff: chatting, making images, reading documents, transcribing voice. The hardware got there a while ago. The software to actually use it locally mostly didn't, so I built Off Grid. Download a model and it all runs on your machine. Ask it something on a flight with no wifi. Summarize a confidential document that never leaves your laptop. Run a hundred image generations in a loop and pay nothing, because it's your own GPU doing the work. Swap your paid dictation app for local Whisper. Talk through a coding problem…

   Jun 2026 · github.com

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   OfflineLLM – a Vision Pro app running TinyLlama on device▲126

   Hey, I built this in a day while at Founders Inc Apple Vision Pro residency. Try it out, let me know what you think.

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   LumiChats Offline(free)▲122

   Your AI, fully offline with Zero data collection & 100% free

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   AI Photo▲201

   Run Stable Diffusion offline on macOS and iOS

   2023

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   Ollama Desktop App▲494

   The easiest way to chat with local AI

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   Off-Grid▲534

   Discover the stories behind top-notch design

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   Apollo AI▲280

   Run local models like Llama on iOS

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   Jan▲334

   Open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs 100% offline

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   General Compute▲315

   AI models that run on an inference cloud optimized for speed

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    FieldDay▲285

    Create custom vision AI apps, using just your phone

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    Unsloth Desktop▲222

    Run and train AI models locally on your desktop

    26d ago · unsloth.ai

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    RunInfra▲156

    Describe the AI model you need and get an optimized AI

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    LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2▲225

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    AI Anywhere (Beta)▲205

    AI copilot for all apps, use ChatGPT without copy-pasting

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    Offline AI▲134

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    WriteMage▲127

    The only AI app you need, use ChatGPT natively in any app

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    I run a vision model on every screenshot, locally, on a 4GB GPU▲36

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    Open Minis▲91

    An on-device AI Agent that runs on your phone, open & secure

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    Lekh AI▲80

    Private, offline AI for iPhone, and iPad

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    Waycore – an open-source, offline-first modular field computer▲49

    Hi HN, I’m building Waycore, an open-source project exploring what a flexible, offline-first field computer should look like for outdoor, survival, and off-grid scenarios. The core goals are adaptability and resilience: modular hardware (external sensor/tool modules) extensible OS with support for external apps (guidelines in progress) no required internet connection — maps, models, and knowledge work offline optional LTE/Wi-Fi when available and explicitly enabled A major focus is on-device agentic AI, not just chat or image recognition. The AI is intended to: read live sensor…

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    OffGrid: AI▲2

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    Local AI Art: PocketDiffusion▲14

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    Offline AI Pros▲2

    Run powerful AI locally. No cloud, no subscriptions.

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    Claude and ChatGPT need a datacenter. This runs on my phone▲18

    Download an AI to your Android phone once. After that it works with no internet, no account and no bill.

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