CoreAI Zoo

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Description of App

CoreAI Zoo puts the open-weight AI model zoo on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Pick a model, download it once, and run it entirely on your device. No account, no server, and nothing you type, say or photograph ever leaves the device.

CHAT
Stream answers from open language models such as Qwen3, Gemma, LFM2.5, Granite and Mistral, from 0.6B to 30B+ parameters depending on your device's memory. Vision-language models (Qwen3-VL, MiniCPM-V, LFM2.5-VL) answer questions about your photos.

VISION
Ask questions about an image, read text with on-device OCR, and describe what the camera sees.

AUDIO
Transcribe speech with Whisper large-v3-turbo, Parakeet and Qwen3-ASR. Talk to an audio-understanding model, generate speech with Kokoro and VoxCPM, and try on-device music generation.

CAMERA
Live depth estimation, object detection (YOLOX, RF-DETR), action recognition and super-resolution on the camera feed.

TOOLS
Experimental models such as diffusion-based language models.

BENCH
Measure load time, tokens per second and memory for any chat model on your own hardware.

HOW IT WORKS
Every model runs through Core ML on Apple silicon. Weights are downloaded from the Hugging Face Hub on first use over HTTPS, then cached, so the app works offline afterwards. One model is resident at a time to stay within memory limits. New models arrive through a live catalog without an app update.

GETTING STARTED
Start with Qwen3-0.6B (454 MB) for the fastest first run. Larger models state the free space and memory they need; a recent iPhone Pro or an Apple silicon Mac runs the mid-size ones comfortably.

Model weights follow their own licenses, listed on each model's Hugging Face page. The app itself is BSD-3-Clause and part of the open CoreAI model zoo. Report issues and request models at github.com/john-rocky/coreai-model-zoo.

Version

2.0.1

Free or Paid

Free

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

27.0.1

Accessibility Comments

Fully accessible so far. Haven't tested everything thoroughly.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

Other Comments

Kind of a CoreAI version of Privacy AI, or RunAnywhere, or something in between, totally free! The developer has another app called Models Zoo, and both apps let you run various models that let you do all sorts of stuff from text-only and multimodal chat to image processing and voice cloning.

Recommendations

1 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Enes Deniz 13 hours 45 minutes ago

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