Privacy AI: Powerful chatbot

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Description of App

It supports GGUF, MLX and Whisper models or connect to remote AI servers, on-device MLX Audio Engine with TTS, STT, live transcription, and real-time translation.

Privacy AI runs entirely on-device with no backend servers, no accounts, and no data collection. Privacy is built into the architecture. Any network traffic, for remote models only, is fully visible: inspect every request, response, and SSE frame in the built-in Protocol Inspector, or route through mitmproxy for your own verification.

In this version, Privacy AI introduces Game Theory Mode for LLM Council, where members negotiate strategically across rounds before the chairman evaluates outcomes. Mermaid diagrams now render natively in chat with no WebView. LLM Council gains URL fetching, checkpoint resume, and full conversation history. Five free news providers are added to search_news. Streaming performance and a dark mode app icon are included.

It supports OpenAI, OpenAI Responses, Claude, OpenRouter, and HuggingFace protocols with tool calling. This includes "interleaved thinking" across providers (DeepSeek, Claude, Gemini, Kimi, MiniMax, OpenRouter) to preserve reasoning continuity. The Protocol Inspector logs all protocols, making debugging and auditing fully transparent.

A generous "Free Plan" includes offline GGUF/MLX/Apple Foundation models, iCloud sync, Markdown conversion, and "40+ built-in tools". Cloud models, the "MCP Marketplace", and custom API providers require a subscription.

- Why Privacy AI
Most AI apps lock you into a single service. Privacy AI gives you control: run models fully offline, self-host for compliance, or use cloud APIs when needed. You decide where execution happens, how data flows, and when tools are invoked.

- Who It’s For
β€’ Developers & infra builders (GGUF, MLX, OpenRouter, custom APIs)
β€’ Professionals in law, healthcare, finance, research
β€’ Power users building automation workflows
β€’ Teams requiring compliance or internal-only AI

- What It Does
* Run Any Model, Anywhere
β€’ Offline on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
β€’ Load GGUF/MLX models from HuggingFace or iCloud
β€’ Connect to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, or self-hosted servers
β€’ Switch local and remote models mid-chat without losing context
β€’ Supports Apple’s on-device Foundation Model (iOS 26)

* Advanced Reasoning Control
β€’ "Interleaved thinking" for supported reasoning models
β€’ "Rethink" button to continue reasoning without re-running tools

* Use Tools Seamlessly
β€’ Full MCP with integrated Marketplace
β€’ Call tools (search, news, calendar, HealthKit, JavaScript) offline or remote
β€’ LLM Council: ask multiple AI models in parallel with a synthesized conclusion

* Automate Privately
β€’ Siri, Shortcuts, and Share Extension integration
β€’ Live Transcription and real-time translation, fully on-device
β€’ MLX Audio TTS and OpenAI TTS (gpt-4o-tts, gpt-4o-mini-tts)

* Files On-Device
β€’ Convert PDFs, Office files, EPUB, HTML, YouTube, audio
β€’ OCR and clean Markdown conversion
β€’ Read "vCard (.vcf)" and "iCalendar (.ics)" files
β€’ Export to Markdown, PDF, HTML, EPUB, or JSON

* Images & Editing
β€’ Generate images locally or via OpenRouter (e.g. Gemini 2.5 Flash)
β€’ Supports gpt-image-1 and FLUX.1-dev
β€’ Annotate with Apple Pencil or touch

* Content & Reading
β€’ Retrieve and convert "X.com article URLs" into clean Markdown
β€’ Mermaid diagrams render natively in chat
β€’ Optimized streaming Markdown rendering for long responses

* Control & Extend
β€’ β€œNatural Talk” voice UI
β€’ Live token and context usage indicator
β€’ Custom prompts, tools, and preferences
β€’ iCloud sync for models, chats, and settings

* Built for Apple
β€’ Optimized for M-series Macs and iPad Pro
β€’ Requires iOS 18.6+

- No Account. No Surprises.
No forced sign-ups. Choose local, self-hosted, or cloud.
Your models. Your device. Your data.

Terms of Use: https://privacyai.acmeup.com/docs/policy/tos.html
Privacy Policy: https://privacyai.acmeup.com/docs/policy/privacy.html

Version

1.8.6

Free or Paid

Free With In-App Purchase

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

26.2.1

Accessibility Comments

Accessible overall, but could be easier to navigate.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, but the interface could be easier to navigate and use.

Other Comments

The app bundles a useful suite of features, all usable on-device. The developer is quite responsive and has various plans, including turning the app into a complete offline assistant for blind users, and adding a keyboard extension for on-device dictation. The latter was suggested by me. You can also expect more TTS models and other features in the future, which were also suggested by me. I've also informed the developer about this app entry and AppleVis in general, so he might just chime in and get in touch with us.

Recommendations

1 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Enes Deniz 6 hours 22 minutes ago

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Comments

By Rocker on Tuesday, March 17, 2026 - 15:57

Maybe you can get "me" to recommend that as well? thanks

By Rocker on Tuesday, March 17, 2026 - 15:58

Maybe you can get "me" to recommend that as well? thanks