# Patagonia Chat - Private AI — user reviews > 93 indexed App Store user reviews of Patagonia Chat by Matias Villaverde, rated 3.97/5 from 31 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/patagonia-chat-private-ai/id6476458336/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/patagonia-chat-private-ai/id6476458336.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 17 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of Patagonia Chat? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🔒 Privacy-focused, on-device processing - 💡 Innovative concept, great idea - 👍 Smooth and intuitive interface - 🚀 Fast and efficient (in some cases) - ✅ Works offline - ✨ Good for text-based AI - 🆓 Free to use - 🗣️ Speech-to-text feature is stable - 💡 Great for productivity - 💯 Accessible with screen reader **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and instability - 🐌 Very slow response times - ❌ Models are not great/hallucinate - 📉 Limited functionality - 🤔 Unclear model selection/usage - ❓ Inconsistent answers - ⚠️ App doesn't open/crashes on startup - 🗑️ Cannot delete old chats - 🗣️ Voice chat not working - 🤔 Branding is cringe or hilarious **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent crashes on various iPhones and iPads - App crashes on startup/won't open - Image generation crashes - Voice chat not functional - Downloaded models randomly deleting - Cannot delete old chat history - Text input invisible - Non-English replies read as 'Chinese letter' - App freezes during complex questions - Responses are incomplete - Text appears one word at a time, slowly - Model initialization memory errors - Cannot submit messages/no submit button - App closes immediately after sending a message - Deepseek AI model download issues and subsequent crashes - Mac version not starting after update **Most requested features** - Ability to delete loaded models - Edit button for models - Dark mode option - Use original Apple models on iOS - System prompt for AI - Chat history functionality - Ability to cancel questions - Translate language feature - Text-to-speech option for responses - Apple Shortcuts integration - Export generated images - RAG (chat with documents) support - Customizable models ## Newest reviews (11 of 93) ### 3/5 — Naja *2025-10-25, version 3.1.0* Ohne detailliertes Vorwissen über die verschiedenen Modelle und deren Versionen, gerät die Auswahl des (ersten) Modells zum Ratespiel. Die Antworten der getesteten Modelle sind auch eher rumpelig. Besonders stört, dass man anscheinend einmal geladene Modelle nicht mehr löschen kann. Die üblichen Methoden (swipe bzw. langer Klick) gibt es jedenfalls nicht, genausowenig einen Edit-Button. Anscheinend eine App noch in den Kinderschuhen. ### 3/5 — Viele Abstürze auf dem iPhone 16 Pro Max *2025-10-08, version 3.1.0* Hi, es gibt leider viele Abstürze in der App, es ist zu 100% reproduzierbar wenn es um Bilderstellung oder Voice-Chat geht. Nutze ein iPhone 16 Pro Max. Textchat ist verwendbar und auch sehr gut. Nutze Gemma-3-4b-it-qat-4bit und Stable Diffusion v1.5. ### 3/5 — Bugs e mais bugs *2025-09-06, version 3.1.0* Extremamente bugado, quase nada funciona, nem baixar um LLM consegue direito, apenas conversar com o padrão que por sorte em em português. Informação: Dispositivo: IPhone 12 Pro Max ### 3/5 — 升级3.1版本后不好用了 *2025-08-30, version 3.1.0* 无法阅读上传的文件 ### 3/5 — Guter Ansatz *2025-07-02, version 2.0.22* War gespannt auf die neue Version. Aber jetzt stürzt die App beim Aufrufen sofort ab. (iOS 18.5, iPhone 13 Pro Max) P.S.: Deinstallieren und erneut laden hilft. ### 3/5 — works but buggy *2025-06-30, version 2.0.21* app works in some instances. issues downloading some models / downloaded models randomly deleting ### 3/5 — Voice chat (Beta) hat keine Funktion auf MacBook M4 Max *2025-05-25, version 2.0.21* Tolles Oberfläche, mit einigen guten Ideen, leider funktioniert der Voice Chat nicht (Beta) und die deutsche Sprachausgabe verwendet kein deutsches TTS. Weiter so, hoffe das bald alles oben aufgeführte bald korrekt zur Verfügung steht. Soweit ich das an der GPU sehen kann, werden diese nicht benutzt. Da aber noch in der Entwicklung erstmal ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ### 3/5 — Tolle Idee und Design *2025-05-24, version 2.0.20* Die Handhabe, Konzept und Design finde ich sehr gelungen. Leider ist die App noch ein bisschen buggy. Aber das wird sich hoffentlich bald verbessern ### 3/5 — Works but some bugs *2025-05-11, version 2.0.17* Some old chat cannot be deleted as the confirm dialog closed automatically. For non-English reply, such as Chinese, it only read ‘Chinese letter’. ### 2/5 — Crashes *2025-05-08, version 2.0.17* Crashes all the time. While generating answers, while voicing them. iPhone 14. ### 5/5 — AI and Privacy *2025-05-04, version 2.0.16* This app has all the relevant Open Source AI tools available. The key part is that it works on your device only - it is not sharing any of your information. We need more of this and we need to be wary of these big companies that don’t give us the privacy we should have. Thank you Patagonia for putting our privacy first when it comes to AI. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Nope *2026-05-20, version 3.1.0* Chat is laggy as hell on an iPhone 17, and when I tried asking it it crashed multiple times before eventually crashing my entire phone causing it to force restart, like what? I’ve never had that happen on any of my iOS devices and I’ve done plenty of things that should’ve made them crash like that ### 1/5 — Unbrauchbar und Vorlaut *2025-09-17, version 3.1.0* Das Model ist echt schlecht eingestellt. Des Weiteren Stürzt es ständig ab und ist versessen darauf im APP-Store bewertet zu werden. -> Dies ist hiermit erledigt. Absolut KEINE Kaufempfehlung. Eventuell ist es in einer späteren Version besser ausgereift. Echt Schade! ### 1/5 — Still jump out *2025-07-12, version 3.0.0* There no way of accessing the app as when you click then , it will jump out, its pretty much useless ### 1/5 — Iphone xs max ios 18.2 *2025-05-29, version 2.0.21* Crash app. :( ### 1/5 — Won’t open - installed and updated - crashes - never seen it open once *2025-05-27, version 2.0.21* Crashes on newest iPhone pro max, reinstalled multiple times, updated everything, won’t launch ### 1/5 — Won’t open *2025-05-16* Crashes on newest iPhone pro max **Developer response:** Sorry for the crash. It should work on the latests version. In your new phone it should work very fast! Please delete the app and install it again. ### 1/5 — Crash instantly on iPad Mini 6 *2025-05-04, version 2.0.16* Open app, type, text is invisible on the textbox, send question, no response. Download new model, crash, close then reopen app, crash. Uninstalled. ### 1/5 — SE Gen2 Can’t Use *2025-05-02, version 2.0.16* Rubbish⋯⋯ ### 1/5 — どうしたら使えるのか *2025-05-02, version 2.0.16* iPhone12のiOS18.4.1です。新規作成みたいな右上のものを押しても何もできず、チャットを検索に文字入力しても、何も作成していないので意味がない。アッフデートしても同じでした。使いたいので使える方法を教えて欲しいです。 ### 1/5 — Non funziona *2025-05-01, version 2.0.15* Non funziona, non ce modo di inviare il messaggio ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Perfect online LLM *2025-09-24, version 3.1.0* Great compromise between computational requirements for offline AI and its performance ### 5/5 — Quello che cercavo *2025-09-07, version 3.1.0* Funziona, è veloce ed è anche accessibile con screenreader, cosa per cui ringrazio gli sviluppatori. Consigliatissima Grazie ### 5/5 — Great App, Nice Experience/Interface *2025-08-09, version 3.0.0* This is my top pick among “offline, open-source” AI apps. I’ve compared it with a paid alternative, but this one generally outperforms it in both AI processing and UI/UX. Standout features include metrics, history, personalities, and model selection. One point of confusion: it’s unclear whether assigning models to different tasks works simultaneously (hybridized?), is user-choice dependent, or AI-determined. A bit more clarity and polish in the UI here would go a long way. Also, can’t decide if the branding hack is cringe or hilarious. ### 5/5 — Its great!! *2025-08-03, version 3.0.0* It’s really good!! + does not get blocked on school/college wifi and gives the right answers with is great! ### 5/5 — 彈APPS *2025-08-02, version 3.0.0* 請問能否修正彈APPS的問題？thanks ### 5/5 — Great app! *2025-06-22, version 2.0.21* Love how easy yet still powerful it is. The personalities feature is great as it’s easy to tailor your search results to different types of questions ### 5/5 — Gut aber noch verbesserungsbedürftig *2025-06-17, version 2.0.21* Ich finde das Programm allgemein gut, aber ich würde die Möglichkeit ins Symbol auch schwarz zu machen integrieren. Außerdem wäre es toll bei iOS 26 in Zukunft die originalen Modelle von Apple zu benutzen ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2025-06-03, version 2.0.21* Still teething, but it’s getting more useful with every update. Hats off to the dev. ### 5/5 — I like it *2025-05-18, version 2.0.18* Its good but crash sometime… i hove the DEV will fix it and hope have a more feature soon ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2025-05-17, version 2.0.18* Hey, thank u for making this app. It helps me so much. Please, update for the settings. So i can add system prompt for the ai --- *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 2026-08-31.*