Locally AI by LM Studio User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience77.8% of reviews
Neutral7.9% of reviews
Negative experience14.3% of reviews

~ Based on 573 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 1,460 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 1,460 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 68/100.

Based on 68 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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

Excelente e tudo local

Excelente

Thank you

Thank you for not collecting any data. Privacy is the most basic human right and we’ll support in any way we can to defend it.

Works great but still lacking a couple essential features

Does exactly what it says on the tin, no bugs or errors that I’ve come across, there are some glaring omissions in the UI though.

The most prominent one is there’s no way to regenerate or edit AI responses in the app even though that’s built into the (amazing) LM Studio, so obviously they can do it, it’s just a bizarre choice not to be able to do that remotely. Update that and I’ll come back and change this to five stars because the software works very well, but that’s IMPORTANT functionality that has just been omitted for whatever reason
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Great but missing some rendering

Seems great from initial usage with a couple of models. Simple to set up and use.
It’s not able to correctly render any equations, formulas or symbols the LLMs generate. The raw text for the equations can be seen by trying to copy the text which would be better to see by default than the error stuff.
It would be great to also be able to exit off the LLM download page without the download failing.
It does have a tendency to crash with some models (Bonsai 27B) when told it’s incorrect.
On most models can only have two messages before reaching maximum conversation length and needing to start a new chat.
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formulas not rendered

In the iOS version of the Locally app, mathematical formulas are not rendered correctly.
Instead of displaying formatted equations, the app shows the raw LaTeX source code. When I copy this LaTeX code and paste it into any external editor that supports LaTeX/MathML or Markdown math, the formulas render correctly, which suggests the issue is in the client-side rendering, not in the generated content.
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Good start!

It’s a nice start for dead-easy to use App Store version of LM Studio including some new LLMs. However, it doesn’t include newest versions, and it seems clear that the ones selected are made to work on iPad as the ceiling. This is a Mac app - let us kit out with LLMs that use our Pro silicon!

Very good! Missing some features

The app is great and does what it promises. However, there are some “quality of life” things I’ve come to take for granted from LM Studio that aren’t currently supported here, such as editing prompts, responses, or thoughts. Likewise, you can only have one personalization prompt. All the same, it’s cool that everything is so mindful of privacy.
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Nice, but clunky

It technically does work and runs LLMs on your iPhone. A major gripe I have with it though is that LaTeX expressions are FREQUENTLY displayed incorrectly. That is, the model is writing valid LaTeX but Locally’s renderer doesn’t display it properly. Before the latest update it was shaky—long expressions couldn’t be scrolled at all, and some shorter ones had weird layout issues and looked like they were off-place a couple dozen pixels—but after the latest update, all LaTeX fields just appear blank entirely. I would’ve given this app 5 stars if it weren’t for LaTeX issues.

Also, I highly recommend adding some kind of web search option like Ollama Web Search. That’d be mighty useful for letting the model know about current events and info it may not be able to come up with on its own.
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New good models don't support

IPhone 17 pro max
Bonsai 27B - doesn't work after 2nd message.
Gemma 4 E2B - doesn't support at all.

Best free app

Love regular updates

Garbage ai models

Argued with an 8B model about how old i was. Can’t do elementary level math since it didn’t account for the months and days, when i corrected it, it showed me the math and still provided the wrong answer 💀

Bonsai27B

Bonsai27Bがモデルの選択肢に現れません。アプリはアップデート済みです。

Pretty good

App generates fast which is a big plus. I wish it would let you import models from huggingface. The choice the app gives you is rather small and highly censored.

LM Link is clutch

Being able to chat with a model running on my desktop is the best feature. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to load the same model config as the desktop setup. Really need to include the setting for continuing the session beyond the context window, instead of just throwing an error. Also, it'd be great to share/sync conversations between devices.
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doesn’t work

doesn’t work and crashes

Crashes with Bonsai 27b

Numerous crashes with new Bonsai 27b release: 1. Opening app without chatting. 2. Basic prompt and crashes during response. 3. Coding prompt and fails to finish response, then crashes when viewing the partially provided code response. Unable to prompt in that same chat.
Device: iPhone 17 Pro Max
iOS: 26.4.1
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