PocketPal AI User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience69.4% of reviews
Neutral9.3% of reviews
Negative experience21.3% of reviews

~ Based on 183 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is PocketPal AI Safe?

PocketPal AI appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for PocketPal AI is 81/100.

This assessment is based on 146 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.1/5.

Safety Analysis

77.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
7.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
15.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 146 App Store ratings for PocketPal AI.

Is PocketPal AI Legit?

PocketPal AI appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PocketPal AI is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

System voice TTS not available

Despite the voice selection menu specifically saying that you can “pick a system voice — those are always available.” They aren’t available. Please fix.

Best App for local ai on IOS, one thing.

Best app out there for local AI. huggingface integration is flawless. The only thing I ask is for there to be a way to allow web search when supported. Other than that, it's perfect. Easy to use and truly free.

Would be 5 stars if everything was labeled for VoiceOver

Please add VoiceOver accessibility. Button elements need labeling. Blind users deserve to be able to use this.

Dude, Asghar, thanks a whole freaking lot! ^^

What?! No ads!🤯 WhaT WHaT!! Thank you!!!
Full ability to get set up!🤓
Text to voice with 3 tiers 📣, and all free 🤘🏼🙏🏼

…and for myself, the only LLM Frontend that works on iOS 15.1
Big big thank you🙏🏼 you’re a bit of a wonderful anomaly of kindness and wellbeing passing some on to others 🖖🏼
One star reviews? Your competitors cause I can’t see how that’s decently possible.

Please allow message to be sent with SHIFT+ ENTER without tapping or using a mouse.
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Does not Learn

Pretty pointless really. loading a model ? What for ? the model is stuck at its primary training level executions. Import & Export Chat session's ? What for ?, the LLM cannot access them, so this local AI, is unable to grow with the user. Practise with a local AI ? what for, it would be like talking to someone, that immediately forgets everything talked about. Might be interesting for a very short time.
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How to disable reasoning?

I dont want it, it heavily slows down the response time.

Honestly one of the best but unreadable text

Out of all the apps I’ve been experimenting with on iOS for gguf models this is one of the best but the text formatting is terrible. There’s no bold, no italics or fonts. Also no line breaks or double spacing just endless run on sentence unreadable output.

I’d really prefer this over most other stuff but that part is very frustrating. Please fix
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Suggestion

I’d like to see haptic feedback as an option and landscape mode could use some help. Otherwise it’s perfect.

Good but missing an important feature

It’s really great of an app, I use it daily but it needs to make it so that it automatically delete any older messages in the chat when the context gets too big. I’m tired of having to start a new chat everyone I’m close to 8k context, and would prefer if the system automatically removed older chat messages in the conversation memory-that way it’s ongoing.
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Not worth it

Probably the worst AI app i have ever used

incroyable notre petit llama.cpp

d’la frappe

Solid

This is a good app for local ai with easy access to hugging face . The user interface is reliable and clean looking . The addition of high quality voices is an important addition also . In the text box you also have the option to add photos into the chat . What I would like to see in the future is for an option for internet search and file uploads . Cheers .
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Gets the job done.

Finally, I can chat and translate text completely offline thanks to good local models.

Thanks for making this application completely free! I'm really surprised that other developers add "In-app purchases" here and there, but not you. You earned my respect!

Just works as you need it

I haven’t noticed anything broken in my tinkering, which sounds like a low bar, but literally any other app i tried that offers this service has too many issues. This being open source, and being free on a platform like ios where you could very easily charge for this, is unbelievably amazing

Bugs, Text Format, and Overall Usage

This app is a great free app to experiment with custom models. There are major bugs with using the new Gemma 4 leading to crashes and app instability. The way the Ai formats text is not visible in some cases. Overall use is fine for small models, but for larger models it is not a good experience because of IOS ram restrictions.
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a great little app

After testing half a dozen local LLM apps, I’m sticking with PocketPal. The freedom to download any model you want and the tiny footprint are unmatched and the frequent updates ensure the newest models actually run. Thanks for making it!

Markdown

Assistant replies now not render formatting and equations.
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La mejor

Póngalo en español me ayudaría mucho

Amazing app! But..

Please add Q1! I really want to try bonsai LLMs on my device, since the new bonsai LLMs are really lightweight! I love this app and that's my only cons 😔

Best app l have to say this one beats them all.

Beautiful UI, Great model support. I want to make heavy use in my shortcuts. The dev should simplify shortcut support. It’s very useful but shouldn’t require set up. I feel it should be streamlined and straight forward to get responses from models in shortcuts if you’re gonna implement it.