# Enclave - Local AI Assistant — user reviews > 285 indexed App Store user reviews of Enclave by Piotr Gorzelany, rated 4.70/5 from 1,029 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/enclave-local-ai-assistant/id6476614556/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/enclave-local-ai-assistant/id6476614556.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 854 · 4★ 107 · 3★ 28 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 28 ## What do users think of Enclave? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Runs flawlessly locally - 🔒 Offline and private AI - 👍 Simple and easy to use - 👍 Seamless Shortcuts integration - 🚀 Optimized for low storage usage - 👍 Curated model selection - 👍 Responsive developer **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes or errors - 🐛 Voice chat and file attachment issues - 🐛 Compatibility problems with older devices - 🐛 Markdown rendering bugs - 🐛 Inability to delete downloaded models **Commonly reported bugs** - Initialization errors on some devices - Gemma 3n model not working properly - Inability to download certain models - Shortcut integration issues with long prompts **Most requested features** - Add ability to delete chat history - Implement iCloud sync for chat history - Support for more advanced LLM models - Improve voice recognition and text-to-speech - Add web search functionality - Allow custom model links and self-hosted models ## Newest reviews (15 of 285) ### 4/5 — Great App, but… *2026-08-17, version 1.75.0* The app works and runs great (though it’s a little slow on my iPhone 11, it’s the only option that supports it well!) but the shortcuts feature does not work as advertised. I installed the app, downloaded a model, used that model in the app, but, as far as I can tell, there are no shortcuts supported—unlike the promotional image. ### 4/5 — Solid app but.. *2026-06-30, version 1.74.0* Overall a great local LLM app but it would be amazing to be able to import non hugging face GGUF’s into the app so that I can run my own models for say testing on mobile devices. Good app though! ### 4/5 — Pretty good *2026-06-11, version 1.74.0* It works better than the other local AI apps so far besides Google AI Edge Gallery. The only reason why I’m using this is because it automatically opens the chat window while Google Edge doesn’t do that. ### 4/5 — Fun but still not sure the practical use *2026-05-11, version 1.74.0* This is an interesting app to use, but I’m still trying to figure out the practical functionality of it. My first test was to ask it to tell me about a historical event, but it could not figure out which historical event I was asking about, and it would make up historical events to tell me about that never actually happened. Maybe it would do better if I uploaded some data to it and then told me to analyze the data. Or maybe there are also some more advanced use cases that I haven’t figured out yet. Nevertheless, it’s fun to play with. The reason I gave it four stars instead of five is that it offers normal voice mode and then premium voices that you have to pay for, but all of the free voice modes that it gives you are those really weird like bubble voices that are really hard to understand. I wish that it would just give you the normal Siri voice for free. ### 2/5 — FIX THIS *2026-05-05, version 1.74.0* The idea of this app sounds amazing, But for any iPad running iPadOS 17 on a iPad 6, this app does not work. Fix this now and Also, please also nerf the specks for Pro (it means please bring at least the Siri, video and google search to it, the pro now is not worth it). ### 3/5 — Works but hallucinates *2026-04-28, version 1.74.0* It works great offline and does good convo, but hallucinates often and can’t follow a train of thought too well and so on. But good offline (I used it in my plane) and provides sub par but ok answers (hallucinates, train of thoughts issues, doesn’t make sense at times) ### 4/5 — Good but some issues *2026-04-25, version 1.74.0* The default models work good but any model I download and try to use causes a crash. Im downloading small models and have a good iPhone but it still crashes. ### 4/5 — Accessibility in app UI improvement *2026-04-22, version 1.43.0* This app is pretty good compared to most local AI apps. I've tried even better than LM student because I'm blind, however it's very hard as a blind person to delete models. I tried to download a new one and then I wanted to delete the old one it seems like the only way to delete models is to uninstall the app. Also how do I get to settings? Please fix this? ### 5/5 — Way better than I thought *2026-04-22, version 1.74.0* My 5 year old iphone outperformed my $2k laptop on the same model. This is an amazing app ### 5/5 — About Enclave *2026-04-18, version 1.73.0* I need all short and long questions with mcqs according to balochistan text book. ### 5/5 — It’s sooo good *2026-04-16, version 1.73.0* I’m surprised ### 5/5 — amazing app *2026-04-11, version 1.73.0* works as it should! ### 5/5 — Gemma 4 *2026-04-10, version 1.73.0* You have created a very good and useful piece of App. Thank you, because during the recent war in the Middle East and the nationwide internet blackout in my country, it was very practical and helpful for me. When will you add Google's new AI, Gemma 4, to your app? ### 5/5 — ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ *2026-04-09* ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎀🎀🎀🎀 **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the five stars — I really appreciate it, and I'm glad you're enjoying the app. — Piotr ### 5/5 — Works great! *2026-04-07, version 1.73.0* Was looking for an app similar to LM Studio for on my iPhone, and after trying Enclave it works fantastic and gives you a massive range of local LLM’s to choose from and you can also download even more from HuggingFace within the app. Everything works great and has a nice UI too, I will definitely be sticking with Enclave from now on as it has everything I need. Highly recommend this app to anyone who is looking to run local LLM’s on their device! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Over censored *2026-08-16, version 1.75.0* Absolute over censored garbage ### 1/5 — Does NOT work *2026-08-12, version 1.43.0* Initializing …. Then nothing… perhaps we need to wait for the eternity to finally arrive… let’s not. ### 1/5 — 26.5 update *2026-06-16, version 1.74.0* The new update completely made app non functional system fails to start working ### 1/5 — Was solid, can't use your own api key *2026-06-12, version 1.74.0* "You can download models from huggingface, not limited by the devs selection" old review, still applies for local chat but that is barebones and you need to start a new chat or it crashes every 10-20 messages. You can't bring your own api key and need to go through their subscription, there are many options that let you do that and it runs much better and less censored than local chat for pennies. They know users will not like local chat and pay them for a cloud sub. ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing *2026-04-24, version 1.74.0* I downloaded PrismML Bonsai8B, which is only 1.7GB, and the app crashed every time I tried to load the model. ### 1/5 — Pay For Everything *2026-03-21, version 1.71.0* Started off as a one off payment to use the app and now it’s a month subscription to use it. No, just NO ### 1/5 — This used to be a wonderful AI app, now it’s chugs *2026-03-18, version 1.70.0* This app used to be One of my favorite on device AI apps. IT IS HORRIBLE NOW BLOCKING MORE AND MORE BEHIND PAYWALL. This was one of my favorite AI apps in the beginning. Everything changes, including my rating for this app. I have an open router API key that I can no longer use with this app. From five stars to one star. I have switched to **Privacy AI** and Locally AI. Those apps allow you to install which ever LLM you want to, as well as providing access to very powerful models. Not just tiny stuff that will fit on a five-year-old phone. ### 1/5 — Subscription Only *2026-01-27* Suddenly stopped working requiring subscription. **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. Enclave’s local, on-device models remain completely free and always will. The subscription is only for optional cloud-based models, which have real ongoing infrastructure and inference costs. Subscriptions help cover those costs and support continued development, while keeping the core app private, offline, and usable without paying. If something stopped working unexpectedly, that’s not intended, and I’m happy to look into it. ### 1/5 — Privacy Concerns *2026-01-06, version 1.66.0* The app connects to multiple analytics servers on every launch even though it states no data collected on the app store. This is in direct violation of Apple’s privacy disclosure requirement. ### 1/5 — Privacy Concerns *2026-01-01, version 1.66.0* The app connects to multiple analytics servers on every launch even though it states no data collected on the app store. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing work *2026-08-23, version 1.43.0* This app is great. I love seeing the new features you keep adding and how you keep up with the latest iOS features like Liquid Glass. Keep it up! ### 5/5 — Neat *2026-08-14, version 1.75.0* Nice local, fast little LLM when you are offline and need some supporting simulated thinking ### 5/5 — Us *2026-07-12, version 1.74.0* So good ### 5/5 — feature request *2026-06-05, version 1.74.0* to start, love the way you can install your own gguf’s from hugging face, because some other LLM apps simply do not give you such freedom. it also doesn’t have ads and tracking. but i believe if you could include an optional voice mode that uses the Kokoro voice generation model, voice mode would be more realistic than regular on-device voices. please consider my idea, and as always this is my go to local ai app—so happy i found this app!! ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-05-28, version 1.74.0* I am so glad there is a local LLM app I can use. This is the future of AI. ### 5/5 — Love It! Feature Request: Support for Ternary Models *2026-05-15, version 1.74.0* Title :) - specifically Bonsai models at this moment. Thank you for all of your hard work! This app is a real life-saver, ESPECIALLY in poor-reception areas. ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2026-05-15, version 1.74.0* Better then most letting you import and export it’s awesome to use this app ### 5/5 — Simple to use *2026-05-14, version 1.74.0* So far, this seems like a thoughtfully designed, easy to use app - great for exploring and experimenting. Thank you for making it available! ### 5/5 — Best Local AI app *2026-05-13, version 1.74.0* Super fast helpful friendly AI ### 5/5 — Automatic Context Truncation for long chat? *2026-05-04, version 1.74.0* Hi! I’m using Enchanted on my iPad M3 and I absolutely love the interface. However, I’ve encountered an issue: when the context limit is reached, the app throws an error and stops the conversation entirely.Could you please implement a 'Sliding Window' or 'Automatic Context Truncation' feature? It would be amazing if the app could automatically drop the oldest messages (while keeping the System Prompt) to allow the conversation to continue indefinitely without manual resets. This would make the user experience much more seamless for rolleplay. Thanks for the great app! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*