# Surnia – Offline AI Chat — Private AI that runs on device > Private AI that runs on device (iPhone/iPad app by Omar Al Murad Agha.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/surnia-offline-ai-chat/id6823705669 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Omar Al Murad Agha](https://appshunter.io/developer/6823705671) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: Free - Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 41 MB - Languages: American English, Arabic, Central Kurdish, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish - Released: 2026-11-01 - Data updated: 2026-11-06 ## What is Surnia? Surnia runs open-source language models directly on your iPhone or iPad. Everything you type stays on the device: there is no account, no server and no tracking. WHY SURNIA • Private by design: conversations never leave your device. • Works offline: once a model is downloaded, you can chat anywhere, with no connection. • Honest about your device: every model shows whether it suits your iPhone or iPad and which devices it is recommended for. • Downloads that survive: leave the app and the download keeps going; if it is interrupted, it resumes where it stopped. MODELS Choose from a curated catalog of open models (Qwen3.5, Gemma 4, Mistral's Ministral, Microsoft's Phi, Liquid LFM2.5, SmolLM3 and ALLaM for Arabic), from tiny and fast to large and capable. On devices with Apple Intelligence, Apple's built-in on-device model is available without any download. You can also import your own GGUF files. MADE FOR MANY LANGUAGES Surnia's interface is available in Arabic, Kurdish (Sorani), English, Chinese, Spanish, French, German and Japanese. The models understand many more languages; each model's card lists what it supports. Arabic is fully right-to-left, mixed Arabic and English text reads correctly, and code is always shown left-to-right with a one-tap Copy button. DESIGNED TO BE SMOOTH Streaming answers, Markdown formatting, thinking mode for models that support it, attachments (text, code and PDF files; images for vision models), a side panel with your recent chats, and careful memory management so your device stays fast. Share a photo or a file to Surnia from any app with the Share button, and Surnia opens with it, ready for your question. Surnia uses open-source software including llama.cpp and MLX. Model weights are downloaded from Hugging Face and are subject to their own licenses. ## Is Surnia safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Surnia. ## Is Surnia legit? Surnia – Offline AI Chat has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Surnia is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 2 releases) ### 2.1.0 — 2026-11-03 What's new in 2.1 Thank you for your feedback. This update fixes the problems you reported and adds new ways to use Surnia, all still fully on your device. NEW • MLX engine: on iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later, models can run with Apple's MLX as well as llama.cpp. Each model card has an engine switch, and both versions of a model can be installed side by side. • Smarter first download: the welcome screen picks the best model and engine for your device and tells you which engine it chose and why. • Apple's on-device model can read photos on iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence. • Share to Surnia: send a photo, PDF, text or code file from Photos, Files, Safari or your chat apps straight into a new Surnia chat. • Thinking, reworked: the Thinking button is off until you turn it on and remembers your choice for each model. While a model thinks you see how long it has been thinking and the line it is on, and "Answer now" skips straight to the reply. A thinking reply always ends with an answer. • Gemma 4 with llama.cpp now downloads Google's own quantization-aware files, which keep quality closer to the original model. • New interface language: Kurdish (Sorani). • Short tips the first time you use the chat. • Licenses: a page for every library and model family. IMPROVED • Manage models shows which models suit your device. A model too large for it can no longer be downloaded, and its card says how much memory it needs. • Each model uses its maker's recommended settings, which stops small models from repeating themselves. • Faster follow-up questions after a thinking reply. • Photos appear above your message, and on iPhone a swipe from the edge opens your chats. • Cleaner design in light and dark mode, with stronger contrast for text and buttons. • Safer links: a link in a reply opens only after you see its full address. • Apple's on-device model works better with iOS 27. FIXED • Pausing a model download and resuming it started the whole download again. It now continues where it stopped, also after a lost connection or after closing the app. • After changing the app language, the Back button pointed the wrong way until the app was reopened. • Sending two photos to a model that reads only one no longer unloads the model. • A download that stopped with an error can now be cancelled to free its space. • Many more stability and reliability fixes. Update now, then open Manage models to see which models suit your device. Questions or ideas? Use "Report a response" under any reply, or write to omarluay@42l6.com. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-11-02 No release notes. ## Related topics [saar bnodiz](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/saar-bnodiz) · [tunisian phrasebook](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/tunisian-phrasebook) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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