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esper - Offline & Private AI

esper - Offline & Private AI

About this app

<p>esper - Offline & Private AI is your personal AI chat app—designed to keep your conversations private and powerful.</p>
<p>Run open-source models completely offline on your iPhone. With esper - Offline & Private AI, you can choose to keep your data on your device. No tracking.</p>
<p>Key Features of esper - Offline & Private AI:</p>
<p>– Run Offline<br />
Download top open-source models like Qwen, Gemma, and DeepSeek directly to your phone—fully functional even without internet or WiFi.</p>
<p>– Bring Your Own Key<br />
Prefer ChatGPT or Claude? Plug in your own API key and get instant access to premium models from their providers. Swap between models anytime, even within the same conversation.</p>
<p>– Multimodal Support<br />
Chat with models that support vision for images, PDFs, and other files.</p>
<p>– Local RAG knowledge bases<br />
Upload documents into organized collections that you can add to chats to provide extra context for models, all 100% private and offline.</p>
<p>– Local Image Generation<br />
Run stable diffusion directly on your device for unlimited image generations, with esper Pro.</p>
<p>– Web search<br />
Ground your requests with search results with any model, or use native web search from providers like Google, xAI, OpenRouter, and more.</p>
<p>– Shortcuts<br />
Send prompts and attachments to esper from shortcut workflows</p>
<p>– Branching Conversations<br />
Explore different chat paths and easily toggle between threads.</p>
<p>– Privacy-First<br />
No analytics, no log storage, no server necessary. esper - Offline & Private AI gives total user control to choose completely offline chats, or connect with their favourite online providers. The choice is yours.</p>
<p>– Custom GPTs & Model Swapping<br />
Build and edit your own GPTs. Switch models mid-conversation—from Gemini to Claude in a single chat.</p>
<p>– Customizable<br />
Adjust the interface to match your personal style. Take control of conversations with editing, deleting, or retrying messages.</p>
<p>– iCloud Sync<br />
Sync conversations across your devices with Pro.</p>
<p>– Go Pro<br />
Pro gives you unlimited model downloads, local image models, knowledge base access, iCloud Syncing, Kokoro voice model, and optional color themes and animations.</p>
<p>If you want an AI chat experience that’s powerful, flexible, and private, esper - Offline & Private AI is built for you.</p>

What stands out

Run open-source models like Qwen and DeepSeek completely offline on iPhone.
Supports Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for ChatGPT, Claude, and other providers.
Features local RAG knowledge bases and multimodal support for images and PDFs.

Version updates

Version 1.6.8

This update of esper - Offline & Private AI includes new features and bug fixes. Visit esper-ai.com/changelog for more information.

9 月 14, 2026 · Apple App Store · iOS · View source

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★ 4.49 ratings
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Reviews

ouuuu443 ★ 4.0

Error

It's a cool app but I get a local model unknown error after getting like 5 reply from the model
From iOS · 10 月 10, 2026 · View source
afurrylittlerabbit ★ 5.0

Best third party mobile AI app

Simple. One time fee with BYOK. Works with a ton of models. Has knowledge base/RAG. Incredible tool.
From iOS · 10 月 10, 2026 · View source

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