Locally AI by LM Studio User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience76.9% of reviews
Neutral8.3% of reviews
Negative experience14.8% of reviews

~ Based on 593 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Locally AI by LM Studio Safe?

Locally AI by LM Studio appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Locally AI by LM Studio is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 1,486 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,486 App Store ratings for Locally AI by LM Studio.

Is Locally AI by LM Studio Legit?

Locally AI by LM Studio appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Locally AI by LM Studio is 75/100.

Based on 75 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

It’s good but be careful

I downloaded the 3B model for mi iPhone 17 base and it runs fine, the only issue I saw was that it consume so much battery and my phone gets got really bad

Useful. One question only

The context it’s so small it can answer only one question. It’s not the model. It’s the application. “You’ve reach the maximum length. Start a new chat.” App has potential, but it’s not practical. Go with PocketPal.

The best

Truly on device AI is a game changer I recommend it to all

Good start but missing useful features

I use this app on my iPad Pro but I’ve noticed it’s missing some useful features that LM studio on PC and Mac has. For example: when I try to upload a few images as I want to use the AI model to help me understand information from my statements, the app won’t let me upload more than 1 photo at a time even though the models I use (both local and remote) support vision and OCR. The next issue I have is it keeps saying I haven’t uploaded a PDF to it when I have which slows down my productivity and finally please address the 5MB file size limit for a single PDF or image as this just seems arbitrary when LM studio doesn’t have that issue. Please fix this for the next update. Thanks.
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Great tool, not free

This would be perfect, if I could use my lm studio on pc to do the heavy lifting, or if the free nicer models weren't locked behind a subscription.

fast but….

The kv cache seems to fill up fast on the 4B models to get more than a few messages. otherwise, it’s nice

Unable to install models

Have not been able to successfully install any of the models available. Just get a message that the installation failed, tried multiple models and inning new iPhone 17 so no idea what the issue is

Promising!

Few issues I see with this version (since there's no feedback form):

- cannot swipe right when side scrolling in a code block; it opens the side bar
- scrolling us very jittery when a response is being generated
- cannot paste images from clipboard

Overall a really cool project and has promise

Cannot Attached PDF Files

Can attach PDF files. But model does not see them. I attach a PDF file and ask the model to summarize it. The model says that it cannot see any file or content. Large VL model running in LM Studio via LM Link works well otherwise.

Not fully local, data sent to Apple

Doesn’t make any sense that the voice is processed in Apple’s cloud.

Amazing.

Will save your life to have AI help anywhere.

Great - but needs web search capability

Great app guys. But to really be useful, it needs to offer web access for research purposes - that also gives room for the latest small models that concentrate on tool use rather than brute force MOE. I understand you are concerned about privacy, but the user should be able to turn it on or off, or simply authorise it on each chat turn. I’m thinking of a similar tool authorisation process to unsloth.
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It’s ok

It’s ok

Logging in is a pain

The instructions sound simple:
1. Install LM studio on your PC.
2. Sign into your LM Studio account on both devices.
3. Turn on LM link.
On the phone app, in the Link to LM studio screen, there is a try it now button. I click it, and it sends an authorization link to my email. I click the link, and the device/app on my PC should be authorized. However , am caught in a loop. When I go back to the app, it still wants me to click the the button so it can send me the authorization once again. There is no button that appears that says the phone and device are now authorized and ready to use. i've been trying to figure this out for more than an hour. This appears to be more trouble than it's worth.
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Love it

I love this app and I get the aim, I have contacted support about this but I know they won’t aim for it. I would continue to use this if they reshaped the app a little and allowed open ai chat completions. I have my own server and ai loaded and I built it to accept api calls and OpenAI chat style completions for compatibility. This app doesn’t allow that 🥲
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Sehr gut…

…gelungene App. Allerdings fehlt mir die eingebaute Websuche, was ich ehrlich gesagt nicht verstehe, da man als User auch auf aktuelle Informationen angewiesen ist. Bitte nach Möglichkeit die besagte Funktion Updaten.

挨拶文やプロンプト生成に便利

応答速度もそれなりで使いやすいです。でも画面中央の広告は邪魔かなw 大半のユーザーは使わないし、使う人は自分でSSHやWebサーバーなどを立ててやると思います

feature request

Could you please add a setting to specify a custom OpenAI-compatible base URL and API token? I’m running LM Studio on my Mac Studio, and I’d like to point the app there directly, as the current LM Link integration has been unreliable for me.

Excelente e tudo local

Excelente

Really cool

Works great aside from few display glitches and inability to display equations properly with Qwen 3.5/4B model. Workaround is to paste output into Obsidian that can display LaTex output.
E.g. Prompt: Provide more info on Electric field mill: A grounded, multi-vaned metal shutter shaped like a propeller. It is mounted directly above the stator on a spinning motor shaft.
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