Stopped working after updates
This app used to work perfectly fine on my iPhone 8 Plus running iOS 16.7.16. I've had it since July, but it now immediately crashes after showing the splash screen.
I've already tried reinstalling the app, clearing its data, restarting my phone, and removing my LM Studio models. I have plenty of free storage (~25 GB), and the freshly installed app only shows 283 KB of Documents & Data.
I'm currently on LM Mini 1.9.10. I didn't manually update it, so I suspect an automatic update may have introduced an incompatibility with older iPhones/iOS 16. Please look into this, because the app previously worked on this exact device.
I've already tried reinstalling the app, clearing its data, restarting my phone, and removing my LM Studio models. I have plenty of free storage (~25 GB), and the freshly installed app only shows 283 KB of Documents & Data.
I'm currently on LM Mini 1.9.10. I didn't manually update it, so I suspect an automatic update may have introduced an incompatibility with older iPhones/iOS 16. Please look into this, because the app previously worked on this exact device.
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Response from developer
Edit: Did it work for you with v.19.12? I am guessing here from your message (appreciate the details), It might be from new changes released in v1.9.10 for on-device Inference, I have applied and uploaded a fix for it in v1.9.12 which is already queued up for a review by Apple and should be available to download soon. Let me know how it goes.
Quickly jammed with garbage
I was using this app as a super simple front end to lmstudio server, it seemed to be one of the better apps for that purpose. I put it down for a couple weeks and come back and it’s now jammed with subscription prompts in every corner and a bunch of unnecessary features like personas used to upsell the subscription. They take up space and can’t be hidden if you just want basic usage.
Unfortunately in the age of llm coded apps it’s all too easy to ruin the experience chasing money. Someone should make an app that can be bought once that just chats against lm studio/completions api. They’d have at least one purchase right here!
Unfortunately in the age of llm coded apps it’s all too easy to ruin the experience chasing money. Someone should make an app that can be bought once that just chats against lm studio/completions api. They’d have at least one purchase right here!
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Response from developer
Whole LM Studio Completion AI is free feature. You don't even need a single purchase for it. Persona is just an easier name for System Prompt and its free feature too. If you are facing an issue with something there is a very active Human Support under Settings. I'd be really happy to help you have the experience you want from the app.
The Developer seals the deal
This app isn't the "perfect" LM Studio app, and there's definitely room for improvement, but let me tell you why I actually pay for Pro.
The developer actually cares.
He responds to feature requests, bug reports, and doesn't spent months between updates. You can tell this is a passion project by the regular and meaningful updates. Sure there's some bugs here or there, sure some things could be added, but as of this writing (July 22 2026), you won't find a better value, better compatibility, better communication or overall better experience on a native iOS app. Trust me I've looked.
I use mostly local LLMs via ollama initially and LMStudio after, and now use open router as well. This app handles them all better than any other.
Even on just the free version, this app as of this writing is 10x better than Locally (LM Studio's official app).
The fact that it has speech, TTS, and photo llm handling for both on-model and via remote-local in addition to cloud providers is incredible.
The developer actually cares.
He responds to feature requests, bug reports, and doesn't spent months between updates. You can tell this is a passion project by the regular and meaningful updates. Sure there's some bugs here or there, sure some things could be added, but as of this writing (July 22 2026), you won't find a better value, better compatibility, better communication or overall better experience on a native iOS app. Trust me I've looked.
I use mostly local LLMs via ollama initially and LMStudio after, and now use open router as well. This app handles them all better than any other.
Even on just the free version, this app as of this writing is 10x better than Locally (LM Studio's official app).
The fact that it has speech, TTS, and photo llm handling for both on-model and via remote-local in addition to cloud providers is incredible.
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How LMS client should look like
That’s a powerful tool to use with LM Studio. Active development in progress. Kudos to author. I want to see more improvements to image generation with ComfyUI and I’ll definitely buy PRO version, as it became my work-on-the-couch favorite.
Response from developer
Thank you, your positive feedback keeps me going. Please do not hesitate to post requests in the Feature Request and support section about Image generation, I'll try to fulfill as many as humanly possible.
New chat Clutter
Opening a new chat has an extreme excess overflow of screen clutter for no actual reason. I am unable to close my keyboard since I can’t tap on the once empty space to see if there are spelling mistakes or errors due to this annoyance. Please remove the useless scrolling prompts upon new chat creation or at least a toggle to remove them. (They completely erase and rewrite the prompt if they are tapped, even by accident making them a bane.)
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Response from developer
This is now fixed in v 1.8.3 and also I have added a toggle under Settings -> Appearances -> New Chat Suggestions. You can turn it off to have cleaner new chat.
Great app for using LLM from your phone
Great app, developer constantly works to fix bugs
Worst local LM client
I'm not going to document every problem as there are many. This app requires a desktop companion app besides just LM Studio. Because I have other apps that connect to LM studio, this is a strange quirk considering this is the official app. It also doesn't automatically start with comp. The model also unloads after a moment of inactivity if you change windows. There's also a bunch of image generation features bolted on that don't work out of the box. This is simply unfinished software. Someone should use an AI to finish it. As an AI product these issues are unacceptable because fixing them is trivial.
07/15 - response to developers response: LM mini is a desktop app enabling the mobile app
07/15 - response to developers response: LM mini is a desktop app enabling the mobile app
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Response from developer
This is Simply not true, You do not need anything else to use the app LM Studio. Model is loaded and unloaded on your PC, if it unloads automatically its something on your PC.
MCP doesn’t work
Set everything up and the MCP models are not loaded, despite selecting them in the UI.
Honestly great app
Genuinely useful. However i suggest polishing the existing features instead of speed running new ones. Specially the UI needs work
Response from developer
Thank you, your suggestion are very welcome, will you please share more about it with me under Settings -> Feature Request section of the app?
The best app!
Changing my review because the developer is quick and fixed an issue I ran into plus added an option to load models already downloaded!
Response from developer
We have a Support section under Settings, can you please contact me there and I'll make sure to resolve the issue really quickly for you?
Great but
This app is probably one of the best so far but the fact that downloading models is behind a paywall is crazy. Like let me download and pick them manually from my files, especially when some of the “free models” are giving a 401 error. 😭
Love the app
I wish there was a way to toggle thinking mode on and off for the models.
Useful in more ways than I’ve discovered.
Every time I open the app it shows me something new.
Very cool
I like this a lot. It’s got support for voice chat and everything. This is great for people who use LMStudio to self-host language models at home. LMStudio has been around for a while but this app is a pretty new expansion and it’s been really satisfying to play around with.
Amazingly Useful
I really enjoy all of the features, especially the ability to connect to my local LLMs while I’m away from home! Please developer, keep up the great work!
Response from developer
Thank you, I really appreciate it. reviews like these keep me going 🙏🏽
Neat idea. Doesn’t work for me.
I’ve tried everything I can think to get this to work. LM Link works fine between computers. Just cannot get this to work and am giving up, but it looks like it has helped others.
Edit: Dev is responsive, I’m sorted, this app slaps. Thank you!
Edit: Dev is responsive, I’m sorted, this app slaps. Thank you!
Response from developer
there is a Support section under settings, if you can post your issue there I can sort it out for you.
Best iPad App to Use with your Local LLMs
This is a great App to allow you to communicate with your local LLM. It works well with LmStudio and oMXL. But it has quite a few rough edges: a) many can be worked around b) many are getting fixed regularly by the developer who is very responsive if you post a bug / feature request (something I find very refreshing in the current App environment). and c) the free version is very featured so you can try it no risk.
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works on my iPhone 7
There are not many apps that work for this version of iOS (seems to be less by the day,) but this developer cares. Thank you for taking the time to support this old iOS version
Fantastic app does everything I need
One of the best designed apps I’ve used. Works great with lm studio, shows all my models and loads them fine. Instant chat with my local server. Other apps I’ve used have been clunky in comparison, this app just makes it easy. Recommend it, worth it for the pro subscription also.
Feature-rich
Absolutely the best local LM Studio client around.
