# Reins: for Ollama & LM Studio — user reviews > 108 indexed App Store user reviews of Reins by Ibrahim Cetin, rated 4.50/5 from 269 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/reins-for-ollama-and-lm-studio/id6739738501/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/reins-for-ollama-and-lm-studio/id6739738501.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 213 · 4★ 28 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 18 ## What do users think of Reins? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple and easy to use - 🚀 Fast and efficient performance - ✨ Clean and intuitive interface - 🔒 Privacy and local-first approach - 💻 Great for local LLM interaction - 📱 Seamless mobile experience - 🌟 Well-implemented and functional - 💡 Supports image input - 💯 Highly recommended **Cons** - 🐛 Scrolling issues - 📉 Table display is scrunched on mobile - 🔌 Connection doesn't maintain in background - 🚫 Lacks advanced parameters - 🌐 No web search integration - 💻 UI takes up too much space on tablets - 🤔 Difficult to connect to non-local servers - 🔋 Drains battery on long chats - 🚫 Can't connect to cloud LLMs - 🚫 Doesn't work with Ollama turbo - 🚫 Requires server setup **Commonly reported bugs** - Scrolling jumping around - Table display scrunched on mobile - Connection does not maintain in background - UI takes up too much space on tablets (vertical) - Cannot save system prompt - Cannot drop all chats - Cannot view billion parameters - Drains battery on iPhone 15 pro with long chats - No longer works with cloud LLMs - Does not work with Ollama turbo - Stops responding to user input after a while - Connecting to many domains on local network (privacy concern?) **Most requested features** - Add .txt file support - Allow disabling 'Thinking' phase - Integrate MCP server support - Add web search API - Support for text and PDF file uploads - Centralized chat sync (iCloud, NAS) - Ability to delete chats - Set default model - Add custom cloud names (like OpenWebUI) - Support for API key authentication - Add Realtime, Speech to Text, and Text to Speech features - Allow LLMs to search the internet - Support for OpenAI API endpoints - Display math formulas and complex text better - Add text size selection/font options - Add accessibility settings (font size) - Support for embedding features (code windows with copy) - Better error reporting - Add API key for Ollama or custom headers - Show Tokens/s metric - Dynamically resizable text output - Ability to create prompts and custom modelfiles - File attachment feature (text, PDF, docs) - Access to camera - Voice to text input ## Newest reviews (15 of 108) ### 4/5 — Great *2026-07-30* Reins is, hands down, a very good app. It looks amazing and I really like using it with my local setup. What is lacking is Family Sharing. I will not pay 4 x the subscription to allow everyone in the family to use our own local LLM. Down the road it would be interesting to also support mlx inferenz servers, given that we are in Apple land here. ### 2/5 — Only for pro *2026-07-26, version 2.0.3* Description says it connects to what ever servers you want and it allows to use.. some how I doesn’t see that it only does that if you subscribe to the pro version. So no you don’t pay fees for the LLM , you just have to pay it to the app instead… don’t see that as a savings ### 2/5 — Used to be decent, now charges a subscription (or $100) to use basic model features on local hosts *2026-07-17, version 2.0.2* Thinking and tool use are basic features provided by the already running ollama server. I get gating some features, like search API features, or things that require your custom MCP server, but gating basic model features like thinking, image input support, or simple things like a server list, model parameters, and other things that the users are already getting just by running ollama is just kind of... clownish i could see paying $10 or so for some of those features. one time. the more premium lifetime access for the search feature and custom tools and whatever also makes sense, but a subscription fee for features that were already freely available before makes me sad. i could just pay $20 for for claude credits to deploy openwebui with a self update script or something and use that in safari at that point 😭 ### 3/5 — Good and bad *2026-06-30, version 2.0.0* It’s good because it’s like ChatGPT, but it’s bad because when I try to use gemma4:e2b it doesn’t show the reasoning output but now it’s a subscription service the reason I use this is cus not money I need to spend but now ### 3/5 — Good and bad *2026-06-04* It’s good because it’s like ChatGPT, but it’s bad because when I try to use gemma4:e2b it doesn’t show the reasoning output ### 4/5 — Bien pensé *2026-05-24* Application bien pensé. Une étoile en moins car tout les paramètres possibles des modèles ne sont pas disponible. Il serait par exemple très intéressant de pouvoir désactiver la phase de Thinking sur certain modèles pour obtenir des réponses plus rapidement. ### 4/5 — Great Chat Tool for Ollama *2026-05-11, version 1.3.4* Love the interface. The ability to select a specific model and have access to everything in Ollama is great. I would really like to see the ability to add files to a Chat session other than just images (especially text and PDF files). Hopefully that functionality is coming soon? This would be a five-star App with additional file support in the chat interface. ### 4/5 — Wish Reins allowed copying responses *2026-04-30, version 1.3.4* Wish Reins allowed copying responses ### 4/5 — 不支持联网模式吗 *2026-04-08, version 1.3.4* 不支持联网模式吗 ### 3/5 — Gut, aber... *2026-04-05* Viele aus OpenWebUI gewohnte Parameter sind in Reins nicht verfügbar, darunter extrem wichtige wie Websearch oder der THINK-Parameter, mit dem sich langes Nachdenken in OpenWebUI desktivieren lässt. Websearch MUSS ebenfalls integriert werden, was nutzt ein Model ohne Internet? Hier gibt es noch ordentlich Nachholbedarf. Grundsätzlich funktioniert die App, fühlt sich durch die fehlenden Basisfunktionen aber an wie eine App mit den Möglichkeuten von 2023. **Developer response:** Hi, thank you for your feedback. As of version 2.0, you can enable Thinking and Tools. Reins now includes built-in web search which doesn’t require any API key to use. Please update to the latest version. ### 4/5 — Good app *2026-04-02, version 1.3.4* Nice app to talk to your local LLM. There seems to be a bug with scrolling jumping around, but otherwise it has been solid. ### 5/5 — Perfect *2026-03-29* The app is simple, but that’s perfect: it does exactly what it promises. ### 5/5 — Genial *2026-03-23* Macht perfekt was es verspricht. ### 5/5 — Beautiful *2026-03-19, version 1.3.4* A great mobile client to access my Ollama on my home server. Thank you for your excellent work. ### 5/5 — Great chat app for Ollama *2026-03-15, version 1.3.4* Thanks to the dev for making this and releasing it for free! Really solid app if you have an Ollama host. Interface is really easy to use and clean, they offer clients for a whole range of devices, and I really appreciate the privacy/local-first approach. If your LLM generates a table in its response, and you're on a phone, it gets really scrunched and hard to read though (wish I could horizontally scroll the table). I also wish there was an option to have the chats centralized so you could access them from any device. iCloud, NAS, whatever... The lack of that led me to Open WebUI and hosting that on a Pi. But for judging the app on its merits alone I think the table issue is my only real gripe but considering everything else and the price of $Free.fiddy, 5 stars all day. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Useless *2026-08-16, version 2.2.0* This app used to be fun, but now they’ve locked out basic functionality behind a subscription, even for running models on my own hardware. The whole point of edge/local AI is to avoid subscription lock-in, they’ve completely lost the thread here. Straight into the bin. ### 1/5 — Can’t even add API key to test local server *2026-08-13, version 2.1.0* So just to test this app with my local server that has an API key on it and is used by many other apps, I am forced to trial. Not even a one server local only limit. Only no-trial option is to open my stuff up? Nope. Removed. Was good, now not. ### 1/5 — Subscription walled *2026-07-13, version 2.0.2* When I first got the app it seemed to have decent functionality but now every basic feature is behind a subscription wall. Use something else. ### 1/5 — Subscription not worth it *2026-07-10, version 2.0.1* Tool calls do not work ### 1/5 — Loved it as FOSS, useless now *2026-06-28, version 2.0.0* Paywalling everything after stopping the code releases is the fastest way to lose goodwill. I would have even considered paying pro if the code was still open. I had it on both my Linux workstations and phone. What was one of my preferred apps is now on my uninstall list. with the downgrade to a subscription model, I’ll be on the look for a new app. A shame as it was one of the best LLM client apps. ### 1/5 — Does not work on iPhone *2026-02-05, version 1.3.3* Keeps asking me for a server even tho I’m on my phone. Won’t let me get past this. ### 1/5 — Does work with ollama api compatible server like Inferencesz *2026-01-30, version 1.3.3* Just like I described in the title , it won’t work even I turn off the firewall totally. ### 1/5 — 垃圾 *2025-11-04* 垃圾 ### 1/5 — No longer works well *2025-10-13, version 1.3.1* No longer works with cloud LLMs ### 1/5 — I can't *2025-09-19, version 1.3.1* I can't even put an LLM to start the chat. Everything else is fine. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great *2026-06-15, version 1.3.4* Simple to use, and works ### 5/5 — Local LLM AI *2026-06-05, version 1.3.4* THIS THING WORKS ### 5/5 — Simple, Direct, Excellent *2026-06-03, version 1.3.4* I really appreciate having a simple app to just plug into a local model im running and prompt it immediately. .txt file support is the only thing i could ask for to improve it. Otherwise if you're running a model in ollama and sharing to the local network then this is a no-brainer. ### 5/5 — Advanced technology *2026-05-19, version 1.3.4* We have been utilizing this as both the front end and back in operations in AI and VI operations analytics within our infrastructure we have found that this has been a very exciting platform and tool that allows us to use existing infrastructure resources that are not to the general public, but at the same time balancing out public access in our processes operations in our research. I do recommend that if you’re going to utilize this in an environment that is in a corporate structure or research center that you allow this to run in your infrastructure that has the suitable configuration, including TPU and GPU included in the configuration inside the servers itself and have high speed storage interaction and connection connections that allow the process to collect the information necessary and then provide the most non-biased laboratory information and also will allow your team to create your own models as well. Done our initial research and development. Did this information allowed to be used and collect an invoice information other models within the system, but for security reasons and other aspects of this, we decided to disable dysfunction in our production side of our house however, in the research side on how it’s the best we still have it available but a production and more sensitive stuff because of security and the lack of guardrails and business ethics of those are outside the world of our development in ethics disabled this before it could be also used against us as well, but we get strong. Kudos to this platform and so thankful that it’s available. ### 5/5 — THANK YOU! *2026-05-14* 神さま ### 5/5 — good app!!! *2026-04-18* "I've recently been using some really great apps, but this one stands out as the most useful and enjoyable. I highly recommend it to everyone!" ### 5/5 — Awesome app! Lacking a few things *2026-04-06, version 1.3.4* Would LOVE to see MCP integrated! ### 5/5 — iOS17で動く唯一のollamaクライアントかも *2026-04-05* 殆どのクライアントがiOS18以降でしか動かない昨今、このアプリを試してみたところあっけなくホスト上のollamaサーバに接続できました。 殆どローカルマシンのuiと変わらない雰囲気で使えます。 ただ最近のollamaの売りのweb search apiには対応していないようで、これさえ出来れば完璧かと思います。 ### 5/5 — great ollama client *2026-04-05, version 1.3.4* it can’t run an ollama server on its own which is expected but it has an excellent, clean interface for connecting to and running ai on a server of your own. i thought i would have trouble finding an app like this for ios but this is great ### 5/5 — Très bon interfaces pour Ollame *2026-04-02* Super application qui permet d’interagir très facilement avec son ollama. J’adore cette app. Seul bémol sur le fonctionnement c’est que la connexion au llm ne se maintient pas en arrière plan. Pas pratique quand les réponse sont un peu longue à arriver. Il serai aussi très interessant de pouvoir interagir avec la configuration du serveur pour télécharger ou supprimer des modèles par exemple. --- *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 2026-09-04.*