# Whelk: Private AI & Agents — An agent that answers to you > An agent that answers to you (iPhone/iPad app by Duncan Grazier.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/whelk-private-ai-and-agents/id6792924119 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Duncan Grazier](https://appshunter.io/developer/1883130848) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: Free - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 34 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish - Released: 2026-09-01 - Data updated: 2026-10-12 ## What is Whelk? An agent that answers to you. Whelk is private AI on hardware you own. Chat with your own models, then arm a conversation with an agent and let it do the work. The record stays on your device, encrypted. YOUR MODELS, IN THE RIGHT ORDER Whelk connects first to Whelk Server, the free server you run on your own Mac or Linux machine. It can also connect straight to a model server you already run, such as LM Studio or Ollama. On an iPhone, iPad or Mac with Apple Intelligence, it can use Apple's on-device model. A cloud provider is used only if you add one, and every answer from it is labeled. CHAT AND WORK, ONE SURFACE - Chat with any model you run. - Arm a conversation with an agent, and it works in place. It asks before anything that reaches past its workspace. - Fork a conversation to try another path. - Dictate on device. Your voice stays on the phone. - On a Mac, open a chat from the menu bar, or send selected text from any app through the Services menu. - Turn on sync to carry your history between your devices, end to end encrypted, through your own Whelk Server. PRIVATE BY WHELK No account. No telemetry. No analytics. Whelk talks only to the servers you choose. Whelk is open core: Whelk Server is Apache-2.0, the apps are source-available, and the source opens at launch. FREE FOR EVERYONE Nothing is metered and nothing is for sale. Enterprise governance is coming. ## Is Whelk safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Whelk. ## Is Whelk legit? Whelk: Private AI & Agents appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Whelk is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 2026.10.0 — 2026-10-11 Your history now follows you between your own devices. - Sync: turn it on to carry chat history, settings and presets between your devices, through the Whelk Server you run. The record is sealed on your devices, and the server cannot read it. - Drag a message out of a conversation into another app, and drop text into the composer. - iPhone Duo: the chat splits at the tabletop fold, and your draft stays where it was. - Work: start child sessions for parallel work, watch a command's output as it runs, read the diff of each edit, and rewind the workspace to a checkpoint. - An answer that drops with the connection resumes where it stopped. - Tuck is an optional app icon. The mark stays the default. - A new look: warm paper, near-black ink and a tide green accent. - First run reads in every language the app speaks. - The licenses and third-party notices are in the app. ### 2026.9.0 — 2026-09-11 Every client now seals the record. This device signs the head of its own chain, so an edited log is provable rather than suspected. Reach a file or a folder on this device with @, from every composer. The record says what the mention pulled into the turn, so a transcript read later is still true. Search what a message says, on every client. A conversation opens at its last message. The model you choose pins the route, so the answer comes from what you picked. A Work session continues on another device. The clients share one session registry, so a session started in one place is picked up in another. Arming says what it could cost, before it is armed. A tool card says what the call was given, not only what it was called. First run configures the provider you chose, and offers a first message to send. A long press opens a menu on a conversation, a message, the composer and a code block. Nothing lives only in that menu: every item is a second door onto something already reachable. The composer bar runs to the bottom of the screen. A model's answer renders as the blocks it is made of. The seat and team screens read in the language the app is set to. The server this app connects to has one name, Whelk Server, in every language the app speaks. It can be configured from a page in a browser, and it checks a signature over a build's digest before it installs anything. ### 2026.8.0 — 2026-09-01 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Whelk | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [RemindAI: Tasks & Water](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/remindai-tasks-and-water/id6784304641) | — | Free | Productivity | | [MemoryAI: Offline Private AI](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/memoryai-offline-private-ai/id6758719586) | — | Free | Productivity | | [Airgap AI](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/airgap-ai/id6760017188) | — | Free | Productivity | | [Alfred — AI Chat](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alfred-ai-chat/id6757346981) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Productivity | | [MultipleChat AI](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/multiplechat-ai/id6795173890) | 2.5 (2) | Free | Productivity | | [SageGate](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sagegate/id6760884303) | 5.0 (2) | Free | Productivity | ## More apps by Duncan Grazier - [Slow Them Down](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/slow-them-down/id6760197118) - [Highball: Train Spotter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/highball-train-spotter/id6761073894) All apps by Duncan Grazier: https://appshunter.io/developer/1883130848 ## Related topics [make ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/make-ai) · [ottopilot](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/ottopilot) · [microsoft seeing ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/microsoft-seeing-ai) · [ai with no boundaries](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/ai-with-no-boundaries) · [noemaai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/noemaai) · [lumo ai by proton](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/lumo-ai-by-proton) · [silent ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/silent-ai) · [livereach ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/livereach-ai) · [anything ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/anything-ai) · [size ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/size-ai) · [obsess ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/obsess-ai) · [bylo ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/bylo-ai) · [candlestick ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/candlestick-ai) · [pluto ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/pluto-ai) · [speakly ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/speakly-ai) · [ai deep search agent](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/ai-deep-search-agent) · [own ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/own-ai) · [full potential ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/full-potential-ai) · [duckduckgo, optional duck.ai](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/duckduckgo-optional-duck-ai) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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