# PocketPal AI — user reviews > 191 indexed App Store user reviews of PocketPal AI by Asghar Ghorbani, rated 4.10/5 from 154 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocketpal-ai/id6502579498/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocketpal-ai/id6502579498.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 95 · 4★ 24 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 20 ## What do users think of PocketPal AI? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Beautiful and clean UI/UX design - 🤖 Extensive model support from Hugging Face - 🔒 Privacy-focused offline functionality - 💰 Completely free with no monetization - ⚙️ Highly customizable model settings - 📱 Works well on newer iPhone hardware - 🔧 Supports GGUF model format flexibility - ✨ Experimental features like Pals - 🚀 Efficient model downloading and browsing - 📊 KV Cache compression support **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes on various iOS versions - 📵 Models fail to load after downloading - ❌ Markdown and LaTeX rendering not supported - ⚠️ Context limit causes chat interruptions - 🔌 Stability issues after recent updates - 🎯 Model selection prompts despite single model - 📱 iPad version is just scaled iPhone app - 🔋 Performance lag with larger models - ⏱️ Displayed output speed doesn't match actual speed - 🚫 Accessibility issues with VoiceOver **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on launch or during model loading - Models download but fail to load - App crashes on iPadOS 26.4 and iOS 17.2 - Freezing and artifacts with large models - Chat session doesn't persist when switching apps - Scroll functionality broken in Settings and Hugging Face search - Chat display goes blank when keyboard closes - EOS token visible in responses - Model download failures partway through - App incompatible with iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone SE2 - Model loading fails on older iOS versions (16.4, 16.5) - Cannot delete downloaded models in progress - App doesn't default to single loaded model **Most requested features** - iOS Shortcuts integration support - Markdown and LaTeX rendering in chat display - Increase n_predict token limit beyond 4096 - macOS version release - Native iPad-optimized interface - Agentic tools (web search, calculator) - Image input support for multimodal models - Text-to-speech (TTS) functionality - Voice input/Whisper model support - Chat message editing and deletion - Sliding context window for long conversations - Stop iCloud model backups - Better VoiceOver accessibility labels - Support for newer model versions (Ministral 3, Deepseek) - MLX framework support - File upload capabilities - Chat history management and organization ## Newest reviews (14 of 191) ### 2/5 — v1.17.2 *2026-09-07, version v1.17.2* This new update fails to load any model but 2 stars for the effort. ### 4/5 — Uh, I might have a small problem. *2026-08-16, version v1.16.1* I may have triggered an accidental feedback loop by saying something specific to Muse. It fries their thinking. ### 3/5 — Its bad but good *2026-08-07, version v1.16.1* IT GOOD BEC OF HOW ITNWORKS OFFLINE BUT IT GIVES BAD AWNSERS THATS ALL U NEED TO KNIW GIVES DOG WATER AWNSERS ### 4/5 — How to disable reasoning? *2026-06-28, version v1.15.2* I dont want it, it heavily slows down the response time. ### 4/5 — Honestly one of the best but unreadable text *2026-06-27* 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 ### 4/5 — Good but missing an important feature *2026-06-15* 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. ### 4/5 — Solid *2026-05-24, version v1.14.0* 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 . ### 4/5 — Bugs, Text Format, and Overall Usage *2026-05-02, version v1.14.0* 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. ### 4/5 — Markdown *2026-04-24, version v1.14.0* Assistant replies now not render formatting and equations. Markdown (headings, lists, code blocks, block quotes) and LaTeX math. ### 5/5 — La mejor *2026-04-18, version v1.13.3* Póngalo en español me ayudaría mucho ### 4/5 — Amazing app! But.. *2026-04-17, version v1.13.3* 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 😔 ### 5/5 — Best app l have to say this one beats them all. *2026-04-16* 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. ### 4/5 — add latex formatting *2026-04-14* Good, but can’t latex format ### 5/5 — Ugly icon *2026-04-13, version v1.13.3* The app icon is ugly makes me ashamed of opening this in public ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — lies *2026-08-27, version v1.16.1* the add lied it’s not free and limited convo based around token use big fat piers just like everyone else thanks for misleading me ### 1/5 — Terrible! *2026-08-08, version v1.16.1* Gives so many wrong answers and nothing current or live ### 1/5 — System voice TTS not available *2026-07-26, version v1.16.1* Despite the voice selection menu specifically saying that you can “pick a system voice — those are always available.” They aren’t available. Please fix. ### 1/5 — Would be 5 stars if everything was labeled for VoiceOver *2026-07-23, version v1.16.1* Please add VoiceOver accessibility. Button elements need labeling. Blind users deserve to be able to use this. ### 1/5 — Does not Learn *2026-06-29, version v1.15.2* 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. ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2026-06-07, version v1.15.1* Probably the worst AI app i have ever used ### 1/5 — cannot use *2026-04-04, version v1.13.1* iPados26 cannot download any of the model ### 1/5 — Hey meta *2026-03-31, version v1.13.1* Can we like be cool and you tell me how to create my own ❤️ or do you just want me to use your system like everyone else does😐 ### 1/5 — Useless *2026-03-29* I asked some information but it doesn’t answer ### 1/5 — crash after update *2026-03-28, version v1.13.1* Keep crashing after update on iPadOS 26.4. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great App! *2026-09-05, version v1.17.2* It doesn’t support AGI or cost money, doesn’t use wifi and is good?! Its perfect! ### 5/5 — French version please 🇫🇷 *2026-08-21* J’aime beaucoup PocketPal AI, mais une version française de l’interface serait vraiment appréciée ! Les modèles parlent déjà très bien français, donc avoir les menus et les paramètres traduits rendrait l’application beaucoup plus accessible et agréable à utiliser pour les francophones. 🙏🇫🇷 ### 5/5 — Bom *2026-08-15* Muito bom, queria saber qual seria o desempenho de SLMs em dispositivos móveis e o app cumpre esse papel. ### 5/5 — Best App for local ai on IOS, one thing. *2026-07-24* 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. ### 5/5 — Dude, Asghar, thanks a whole freaking lot! ^^ *2026-06-30* 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. ### 5/5 — Suggestion *2026-06-16, version v1.15.2* I’d like to see haptic feedback as an option and landscape mode could use some help. Otherwise it’s perfect. ### 5/5 — incroyable notre petit llama.cpp *2026-06-03* d’la frappe ### 5/5 — Gets the job done. *2026-05-18* 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! ### 5/5 — Just works as you need it *2026-05-18, version v1.14.0* 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 ### 5/5 — a great little app *2026-04-26, version v1.14.0* 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! --- *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 2026-09-12.*