Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
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…
Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone launched on February 14, 2026 with 124 votes, #262 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Off Grid is an open-source app that runs AI models directly on a smartphone's GPU without internet connection. It supports text generation, image creation, voice transcription, and vision tasks entirely offline. The app is designed for users who want privacy for their data, need AI functionality without connectivity, or operate in environments with internet restrictions or compliance requirements. All processing happens locally on the device with nothing uploaded to external servers.
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From the sources
The Swiss Army Knife of Offline AI. Chat, see, speak, and generate images on your phone or Mac — GGUF LLMs, vision, Whisper speech-to-text, Stable Diffusion, tool calling, and local-network servers. Runs on your CPU, GPU, or NPU. No account, no API key, zero data leaves your device. - off-grid-ai/OGAM
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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