# Layla — user reviews > 30 indexed App Store user reviews of Layla by Layla Network Pty Ltd, rated 3.80/5 from 31 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/layla/id6456886656/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/layla/id6456886656.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 19 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 6 ## Newest reviews (10 of 30) ### 4/5 — Really promising, but please allow me to use my Gemini API key! *2026-01-24* Really promising, but please allow me to use my Gemini API key! ### 2/5 — Not the best but still alright *2025-07-31* Most of the features end up crashing the app like the image generator or loading certain chat characters. I’m using an iPhone 16 pro max so don’t think this is an issue with my phone but instead the app. Hopefully everything is fixed in the future ### 2/5 — Promising, but … *2025-07-28* While it is a very promising design of an LLM front-end the UI still wants for intuitiveness, the default AI is not great but can be replaced however the running AI model cannot seem to see all of its ability, so even if you give it – sake of example – an image or sound processing tool, the capabilities are not useable. For a paid app it is not yet on the level of various free software available ### 2/5 — Disappointing Experience – Most Features Broken Unless You Pay *2025-04-22* I had high hopes for Layla as an AI client with TavernAI-like features, but the reality is frustrating. Most of the advertised functionality simply doesn’t work as expected. Offline features are either broken or unreliable, and the only parts that consistently function are the paid online features—which feels like a bait-and-switch for an app marketed around local AI and privacy. The UI is clunky, and many features (like reminders, personalities, and roleplay) are either buggy or nonfunctional. Performance is slow, and the app only seems usable if you pay for cloud features, completely defeating the purpose of having a local AI assistant. Unless there are major improvements, I can’t recommend Layla. There are better, more reliable AI chat clients out there that actually deliver on their promises. ### 2/5 — iPhones aren’t ready for this. *2025-01-20* Can’t tell if the app is bad, or iPhones are bad. I have the latest iPhone and I cannot run any LLM model outside of the one this app comes with — no mater how small the LLM model is. Constant crashing. Constant frustration. ### 4/5 — Keeps crashing *2025-01-20* App keeps crashing as soon as I open a chat. Terrible. Can’t do anything ### 4/5 — Solid app, but needs iPad ver *2024-10-12* Really god app. Love that it works with both remote llms and local ones. For those of us who travel a lot, that’s very useful. The UI could be better. The “biometric lock” doesn’t seem to work, it just prompts for password or PIN. FR: Please make an iPad version! I have an M4 and would love to see this use the whole screen real estate. ### 4/5 — Siri and Shortcuts *2024-04-16* It'd be great if you could implement the ability to create shortcuts that are able to retrieve info on the available personalities and past conversations, chat with personalities by specifying their name in a block's parameter, or even chat in an existing conversation within the chat history. If that were to happen then I would give this app a solid 5 stars given it's price, features, and individuality on the App Store. ### 5/5 — True offline Ai *2024-02-12* Pleasantly surprised keep up the good work. Thank you for not making it a subscription app. Thanks man! ### 2/5 — Couldn’t use it. *2023-12-01* The app crashes to Home Screen once you hit the start chat button and counts down. **Developer response:** I'm sorry to hear that. Please email me at info@layla-network.ai and I'm happy to resolve the issue for you. If for any reason I can't help, I'm happy to give you a full refund. Alternatively, you can also contact me on our Discord channel which is shown in the app settings page. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Unusable *2026-07-11* ⭐️ 1/5 – Update Broke Character Interactions "The latest update broke character card functionality. When attempting immersive role-play, the AI now rejects interactions the cards were designed for. No warning, no rollback option—just a core feature that no longer works. For an app centered on character-driven conversations, this is a major failure. Fix it ASAP ### 1/5 — Bad *2026-06-12* This use to be good but do not recommend with most recent updates and features added. Need to put tighter controls in place that work. ### 1/5 — Funktioniert nicht mehr *2026-02-07* . ### 1/5 — 画像生成ができない。 *2025-12-29* 画像生成ができるとの表記があるが、チャット上での画像生成ができない。 設定でImage Generationを設定したが画像生成できず、下記内容を質問した返答がこれ。 表記内容に偽りがあります。 「Image Generationを使用してるが画像は作れない？」 The current integration only allows for textual descriptions of the generated images. I can paint a vivid picture in words, but unfortunately, the technology at this moment does not enable direct visual output. However, I can attempt to redirect you to image hosting or sharing platforms or even programming environments where such capabilities are possible, should you wish to experiment further with visually representative outputs. At this stage, my role is confined to linguistic description, but innovative collaborations could potentially expand my range in the future. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work properly *2025-11-09, version 6.2.0* I downloaded this app on power user and it failed to download 6 times before it finally downloaded. Now it’s just throwing endless emojis at me in a chat screen 🏈🏐🏹🪀🥊🎾🥊🎾🥊🎾🥊🎾🥋🏹🪀🪁🎱🤿🎾🥊🥊🥋🏐 I tried downloading different models and it says download failed over and over. Not sure why but for £19.99 it’s disappointing. Can I have a refund please ### 1/5 — NOT PRIVATE OR OFFLINE *2025-04-16* The description is misleading the app had full access to my location and claimed to collect all chats … false advertisement ### 1/5 — App crashes *2024-11-15* I have an iPhone 12 Pro Max and none of the features work. The app is slow and will not allow me to chat with any of the bots. Waste of money. ### 1/5 — Does not work *2024-07-07* I get a error ever time I try chatting. I have a iPhone SE that is about year old. I am using the base model with no luck. ### 1/5 — Useless *2023-09-30* Doesn’t work my devices. Newest iPad mini and iPhone 14 pro. Totally useless. Cant get my money back. Do not buy. **Developer response:** I'm sorry to hear that. Please email me at info@layla-network.ai and I'm happy to resolve the issue for you. If for any reason I can't help, I'm happy to give you a full refund. Alternatively, you can also contact me on our Discord channel which is shown in the app settings page. ### 2/5 — Warning: iOS cannot import external models *2026-02-13* I am giving 2 stars because | purchased this app specifically to run my own custom Stable Diffusion models locally, but this feature is missing on the iOS version. I have not tested the text (LLM) features as they are not relevant to my use case. Be aware: While there is a preset list of models you can download within the app, you cannot import your own safetensors or.ckpt files from your device storage, unlike on Android. If your goal is to load specific external image models, please know that this is currently impossible on iPhone. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great App *2026-07-11* I am very satisfied about this beautiful app, it is very friendly and the writer is the best. I like characters. This is the app which I was looking for. But first when I have installed the app it starts downloading all necessary files, now I need to find what to download after reinstalling? This is very strange, because previously it downloaded all files simultaneously. Now I should download manually. Otherwise is good. I hope it will improve. ### 5/5 — Stable diffusion *2026-06-02* Es wäre sehr schön wenn es auf dem iPhone 17 p Max mehr stable diffusion Modelle geben würde, wie bei Andoid ### 5/5 — Very impressed *2026-01-02* I’ve been using this app for quite some time. There isn’t anything else like it, very manual setup, very inclusive. Apple changes things often, these guys push the boundaries of what can be done on a mobile device. Very open. Latest Apple update broke. Bunch of stuff, awaiting update for Layla 6.4.0, can’t wait to map some long term memory, very beautiful ideas implied Enter here, very satisfied with purchase. ### 5/5 — Best Offline Ai *2025-12-16* Best offline Ai it works well on iPhone air and it allows you to download LLM and other Ai models and they are very good for role playing the characters you can create are very realistic and good and you can then chat to them once you download the character apps ### 5/5 — Llms Lokal auf dem IPhone *2025-12-10* Finde ich super, endlich eine Chatgpt alternative die nur auf auf meinem iPhone läuft. Bitte fügt Mistral hinzu 🙏 Klasse gemacht! 5+ ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-07-26* I was very surprised when I found this as an app, as I have been looking for something like this for a while. It's pretty much perfect, and the UI is really nice to navigate through. A thing that would be really helpful that I’ve used on other services would be to add a tab to each individual chat, a way to give a few small notes or like an instruction tab. Something that you can add to and change throughout the RP for the AI to remember for its next reply, for example: (The current location is outside the castle.) {{char}} will not mention a certain subject, or repeat a specific phrase. Or if you’re speaking to multiple characters at once: (Only Arthur will speak with a French accent.) I hope something like this can be added as it would make it so much easier for me anyway, but if not that's okay! And also just the ability to type while the model is loading in. Anyway, this is an amazing app, and the support on discord is super helpful. Thank you very much to the creator. ### 5/5 — One of the best ai apps *2024-07-21* Works with your own models, OpenAI, gguf ollama etc. many features that others don’t have and constant updates. I’d love the ability to make window bigger and change font color. Thank you for your hard work. Great all in one tool for your ai services with lots of customization. ### 5/5 — great app *2024-06-23* pretty much the only way to run gguf on your mobile that i know of, many features! works pretty well great dev! would love a way to allow window size change on macos side, but mobile app is great and works with ollama well. how did you jam so much into one app so quickly? dont miss this one. ### 5/5 — Nice app *2024-04-21* Nice app had tons of features the others don’t, gguf works ### 5/5 — Works great on iPhone SE *2024-04-16* My older 2020 series iPhone SE has no problem running the tiny or the regular model. I actually prefer the tiny model to ChatGPT it is more capable at addressing the questions in front of it. Your phone will get warm. It’s an AI that knows at least 2 Billion things. That’s a lot of things to know and keeping them in mind at all time is going to burn battery. Get an external battery pack. This is the best upgrade to my iPhone ever! If Siri in iOS 18 isn’t at least this good I won’t bother buying the next gen of iPhones this system is really that good. I’m a software developer myself and I stand in awe at what you’ve built here Layla dev team. This is life changing. --- *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 2026-08-26.*