Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to OfflineLLM – a Vision Pro app running TinyLlama on device
Hey, I built this in a day while at Founders Inc Apple Vision Pro residency. Try it out, let me know what you think.
OfflineLLM is a Vision Pro app that runs the TinyLlama language model directly on the device, enabling AI conversations without requiring an internet connection. Built during a Founders Inc Apple Vision Pro residency… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. OfflineLLM – a Vision Pro app running TinyLlama on device launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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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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Llamao▲496Private & offline alternative to ChatGPT on your device
2025 · llamao.app · 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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Your AI, fully offline with Zero data collection & 100% free
May 2026 · lumichats.com · its alternatives →
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Run LLM & Vision AI fully offline on your iPhone
Feb 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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A simple mobile web app inspired by Fuzzy-Search/realtime-bakllava that uses llama.cpp server backend with multimodal mode to describe and narrate what the phone camera sees. I built this thing in a few hours using a single ChatGPT thread to generate most things for me and iterate on this project. Here's the workflow: https://chat.openai.com/share/ea84ec69-5617-45e8-8772-ac2dcf...
2023 · github.com · 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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Ultra-efficient 1.3B vision-language model for mobile
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Run AI completely offline. No cloud. No tracking.
Mar 2026 · zentithllm.nishantapps.in · its alternatives →
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2023 · tinyllms.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built superwhisper out of frustration with the native dictation capabilities of macOS. Inaccurate, required manual punctuation, didnt activate in some contexts or would have audio capture issues. I wanted a replacement that worked offline, had cross language support, was configurable and worked in any application. Under the hood the app is using whisper.cpp, which runs really well on the Apple Silicon chips. You can use the base and standard size models for free, larger models sizes and languages other than english are paid. Let me know what you think! For context, I launched this…
2023 · superwhisper.com · its alternatives →
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Depthforge▲94Immersive 3D image generation for Apple Vision Pro
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Your choice: Mobile AI chat offline or with any online model
2025 · esper-ai.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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Kuzco▲7Hi HN, I’m building Kuzco, a Swift SDK for running AI models locally on Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro). The goal is to make “offline + private AI” feel like a normal dependency you can drop into a SwiftUI/UIKit app, without standing up servers or paying per-token API fees. What it does - Text generation with token streaming (chat style UX) - Vision AI (analyze images locally) - Image generation via Stable Diffusion - Model manager to download and manage on-device models Developer experience - create a session with a model - stream tokens as they generate - optionally get…
Jan 2026 · kuzco.co · its alternatives →
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VoicePad AI▲53Offline voice dictation for Windows, Mac, iOS & Android
Jul 2026 · voicepad.tech · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I've been working on this project for a while, and it has been in an "open" beta for some time. I finally believe it's ready for its first release. I hope you like it. Here are some potential questions that may arise: 1. How does it compare to LM Studio? It's likely that if you're already using LM Studio, you'll continue to do so. This project is designed to be more user-friendly. 2. Is it open-source? No, it is not. 3. Does it use any open-source libraries? Yes, it uses llama.cpp and a few others, as indicated in the license information included with the application. 4. Why is not…
2023 · avapls.com · its alternatives →
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