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How to ask AI about a photo on your iPhone, without uploading it
Snap a plant, a menu or a sign and ask what it is. How to ask an on-device AI about a picture in Modelbase, which models can see images, and what to ask.
By Modelbase Team
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The best apps to run local LLMs on a Mac
LM Studio, Ollama, Jan, Msty, AnythingLLM, GPT4All and App Store apps like Modelbase and Private LLM: how the main ways to run AI models on a Mac compare, as of November 2026.
By Modelbase Team
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How to chat with a PDF on your iPhone, without uploading it
Ask questions about a PDF, summarize it or find a clause with an AI that reads the file on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. The steps in Modelbase, good prompts, and the limits.
By Modelbase Team
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The best offline AI apps for iPhone: AI chat that runs on the phone
Modelbase, PocketPal AI, Private LLM, Locally AI, Liquid Apollo and Enclave run AI models on your iPhone. Price, models, photos, voice and privacy compared, as of November 2026.
By Modelbase Team
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Can you use ChatGPT offline? Here's what works without internet
No: ChatGPT needs a connection because it runs on OpenAI's servers. Here's how to get a private AI chat that works offline on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.
By Modelbase Team
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Free LLM APIs in November 2026: which AI APIs are still free
Which LLM APIs still have a free tier: OpenRouter's free models, Groq and Google's Gemini API, and what changed at Mistral, Cerebras, Hugging Face and GitHub. Limits, data use, and how to use them on iPhone and Mac.
By Modelbase Team
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Is the Gemini API free? Google AI Studio's free tier, its limits and its fine print
The Gemini API has a free tier with Gemini Flash models, Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Gemma 4, as of November 2026. What's free, how to get a key in Google AI Studio, what Google does with free-tier data, and how to connect it on iPhone and Mac.
By Modelbase Team
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Gemma vs Llama vs Qwen: which small model should you run on your iPhone?
Google's Gemma, Meta's Llama and Qwen compared as on-device models: sizes, photos, thinking, context and which iPhone each suits, with every model in the Modelbase catalog.
By Modelbase Team
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Is the Groq API free? Free tier limits, models, and how to use it on iPhone and Mac
Groq's API has a free plan: gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b and Qwen 3.8 27B, 1,000 requests a day each as of November 2026. The limits, what Groq does with your data, and how to use it on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
By Modelbase Team
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LM Studio vs Ollama: which should you use to run LLMs locally?
LM Studio and Ollama both run open AI models on your own computer for free. How they differ in interface, license, models, MLX support and API, as of November 2026.
By Modelbase Team
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Llama 3.2 1B and 3B on iPhone and Mac: what they are and how to run them
Meta's Llama 3.2 1B and 3B are small text models built for phones. Their sizes, context length, languages and license, what they're good at, and how to run them offline on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
By Modelbase Team
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LFM 2.5: Liquid AI's small models for iPhone and Mac, explained
LFM 2.5 is Liquid AI's family of small open models built for running on devices. What the 350M, 1.2B, Thinking and vision models are, what they're good at, and how to run them on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
By Modelbase Team
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Is ChatGPT safe? What happens to your chats, and how to keep them private
ChatGPT is a legitimate, widely used service, but it isn't private by default. Does ChatGPT store your data, train on it or share it? What OpenAI says, the settings to change, and how to keep chats on your own device.
By Modelbase Team
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Ollama GUI: apps to chat with Ollama on Mac, Windows, iPhone and the web
Ollama runs open models on your computer; these apps give it a chat window. Ollama's own app, Open WebUI, Msty, AnythingLLM and iPhone clients, compared as of November 2026.
By Modelbase Team
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Qwen vs DeepSeek: which to run on your iPhone or Mac?
On a phone, the DeepSeek you can run is built on Qwen. How Qwen 3.5, Qwen 3 and DeepSeek R1 (1.5B) compare in size, thinking, vision and context, and which to pick for what.
By Modelbase Team
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OpenRouter free models: what's free, the limits, and how to use them on iPhone and Mac
Is OpenRouter free? Its :free models cost nothing, with daily limits. Which free models there are in November 2026, the limits, what happens to your data, and how to use them on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
By Modelbase Team
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On-device AI vs cloud AI: what's the difference, and which should you use?
On-device AI runs on your phone or computer; cloud AI runs in a data center. How they differ in privacy, offline use, cost and capability, and when each makes sense.
By Modelbase Team
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Private ChatGPT alternatives that work offline, on iPhone, Mac and PC
Want ChatGPT's features without sending your chats to a server? Apps that run AI models on your own device, matched to each ChatGPT feature, as of November 2026.
By Modelbase Team
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Phi 4 Mini on iPhone and Mac: Microsoft's small model for math and logic
Phi-4-mini is Microsoft's 3.8B open model, strong at math, logic and following instructions. Its size, context, languages and limits, how it differs from Phi-4, and how to run it offline on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
By Modelbase Team
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How to run DeepSeek R1 locally on iPhone and Mac
Run DeepSeek R1 offline on your iPhone or Mac: what the 1.5B distilled model can and can't do, the steps in Modelbase, and other reasoning models to try.
By Modelbase Team
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How to run an LLM locally on iPhone, iPad and Mac (no Terminal needed)
Run open models like Qwen, Gemma, Llama and DeepSeek on your own iPhone, iPad or Mac: what you need, how to pick a model that fits, and the steps.
By Modelbase Team
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What is a small language model? Examples you can run on your phone
Small language models (SLMs) are AI models small enough to run on a phone or laptop. What counts as small, what 1B and 4-bit mean, and real examples with sizes.
By Modelbase Team
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AI voice chat that works offline: talk to an AI on your iPhone, privately
Have a spoken conversation with an AI that runs on your iPhone: on-device speech recognition, a local model and natural voices. How voice mode works in Modelbase, and how to set it up.
By Modelbase Team
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What is a reasoning model? How AI "thinking" works, and what thinking levels do
A reasoning model writes out its thinking before it answers. How reasoning models work, when thinking helps, and what Instant, Medium and High mean on iPhone and Mac.
By Modelbase Team
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What is a token in AI? Tokens and context windows, explained
AI models read and write text in tokens, small pieces of words. What a token is, how many words fit in one, what a context window is, and why a phone's is smaller than the model's.
By Modelbase Team
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What is MLX? Apple's framework for running AI on Mac and iPhone
MLX is Apple's open-source machine learning framework for Apple silicon. What it does, why unified memory matters, MLX vs GGUF, and how apps use it.
By Modelbase Team
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Which AI model should you run on your iPhone? A guide to local LLMs
How to pick a local LLM for your iPhone, iPad or Mac: what fits in memory, and the best small models from Qwen, Gemma, Llama, Phi and DeepSeek.
By Modelbase Team
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Introducing Modelbase: offline, private AI chat for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Modelbase is a free app that runs open AI models on your iPhone, iPad and Mac with Apple's MLX: offline, private, no account, first model included.
By Modelbase Team