What is PocketPal AI?
Models run on your phone, offline and private.
Who is PocketPal AI best for?
PocketPal AI is best for people who want to chat with open-source language models offline on their own phone.
Private chat on your phone
Models run on the phone itself with no account and no telemetry, so prompts and chat history never leave the device.
Offline use
Once a model has downloaded, it answers in airplane mode or anywhere without a signal.
Trying open-source models
You can browse Hugging Face inside the app and run any GGUF model, such as Gemma, Qwen or Phi builds, with control over temperature, system prompts and GPU layers.
Benchmarking phones
A built-in test measures prompt and token speed on your device, and you can share the result to a public leaderboard of phones.
How much does PocketPal AI cost?
PocketPal AI is free and open source under the MIT License, with no paid tier: the app costs nothing on the App Store or Google Play.
- Open source under the MIT License
- iOS and Android, on phones and tablets
- Runs any GGUF model you download, fully on the device
PocketPal AI's terms say the app is given away at no cost on Google Play and the App Store, and its site has no plans or upgrades. PalsHub, the maker's separate marketplace of ready-made personas for the app, lists free pals alongside some paid ones. Full pricing on pocketpal.dev. We checked these prices on .
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Is PocketPal AI open source?
Yes. PocketPal AI's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can read it, change it and run it yourself.
On GitHub
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- Last commit
- 12 Nov
- Repository age
- 2 years
- Latest release
- 10 Nov
- Licence
- MIT
- Self-hosted
- No
- Repository
- a-ghorbani/pocketpal-ai
Questions about PocketPal AI
What is PocketPal AI?
Models run on your phone, offline and private.
Who is PocketPal AI for?
PocketPal AI is best for people who want to chat with open-source language models offline on their own phone.
Is PocketPal AI free?
Yes. PocketPal AI has a free plan: open source under the MIT License.
Is PocketPal AI open source?
Yes. PocketPal AI's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can read it, change it and run it yourself.
Where can I try PocketPal AI?
On its official website, pocketpal.dev.
Does PocketPal AI work offline?
Yes. PocketPal AI downloads a model once, then runs it on the phone's own CPU and GPU, so chatting needs no internet connection. You only need to be online to browse and download new models from Hugging Face.
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