A voice assistant that doesn't phone home
Your phone's assistant answers from a server. An on-device voice assistant hears you, thinks locally, and keeps every question off the network.
Why assistants live in the cloud
Ask a mainstream assistant something and the request travels to a data center for the real thinking. That is why they feel smart - and why they go silent the moment the signal does.
Thinking that stays on the phone
Local AI includes a voice assistant wired straight to the model running on your device: you talk, the model on your phone does the thinking, and the answer never crosses a network.
When offline voice actually matters
Flights, road tunnels, rural hikes, foreign SIMs that ran out of data - the moments you most want a hands-free answer are often the moments with no bars.
Pick a model that keeps up
Voice feels best when replies come fast, so choose a smaller model first - the 0.5B to 3B range answers snappily on most phones. You can always step up for harder questions later.
Local AI: Private Offline Chat
A full AI chat that runs entirely on your phone — no internet, no account, no cloud.
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