Comparison

SMI Chat vs InferrLM

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SMI Chat

This communication platform facilitates group and individual messaging, file sharing, and voice/video calls within a secure, encrypted environment. It allows seamless interaction with other apps in its ecosystem and offers features like read receipts and searchable history across devices.

Highlights
  • Group chat rooms
  • Message, image, video, file sharing
  • 1-on-1 and conference voice/video calls
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Read receipts
  • Matrix.org ecosystem integration
  • Searchable chat history
Features
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Built around group chat rooms, SMI Chat can interact with other SMI apps and lets you share messages, images, videos and files among team members. SMI Chat is the center of all communications of the team’s collaborative environment. Features include: • Instantly share messages, images, videos and files of any kind within groups of any size • Voice and video 1-1 and conference calling via WebRTC • End-to-end encryption using Olm (https://matrix.org/git/olm) • See who's reading your messages with read receipts • Communicate with users anywhere in the Matrix.org ecosystem. • Participate in guest-accessible public rooms • Highly scalable - supports hundreds of rooms and thousands of users • Fully synchronized message history across multiple devices and browsers • Finely configurable notification settings, synchronized over all devices • Infinite searchable chat history • Permalinks to messages

About

InferrLM

Run advanced AI language models directly on your device, ensuring complete privacy and offline functionality. Analyze documents, recognize images, and extract text from photos. Optionally connect to cloud AI services with your own API keys.

Highlights
  • Run AI models locally, no internet required
  • Complete conversation privacy
  • Analyze images and documents
  • Extract text from photos and PDFs
  • Optional cloud AI integration
  • RAG for enhanced document understanding
Features
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Run AI language models directly on your phone, offline. Chat with AI without internet, keep your conversations private, and access advanced features like document analysis and image recognition. Who Is This For? Developers who want to experiment with language models locally. Privacy-conscious users who don't want their data in the cloud. Students who need AI help but don't always have internet. Anyone curious about running real AI on their phone. Key Features: - Run AI models locally on your device - no internet needed - Complete privacy - your chats never leave your phone - Support for vision models - analyze images and documents - Built-in OCR to extract text from photos and PDFs - Optional cloud AI support (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek) with your own API keys - Download optimized models designed for mobile devices - RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) for smarter document understanding - Share your AI assistant across devices on your WiFi network

Screenshots

SMI Chat3 screens
InferrLM4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: InferrLM at 5.0 against SMI Chat's 4.0. InferrLM also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). SMI Chat's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

InferrLM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SMI Chat ships an update every 3 weeks, InferrLM every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SMI Chat versus InferrLM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSMI ChatInferrLM
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSiliconmotionSubhajit Gorai

In-app purchases

None

SMI Chat

No in-app purchases

None

InferrLM

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SMI Chat free?
SMI Chat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is InferrLM free?
InferrLM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SMI Chat or InferrLM?
InferrLM is rated higher. SMI Chat averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while InferrLM averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do SMI Chat or InferrLM have ads?
Neither SMI Chat nor InferrLM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SMI Chat or InferrLM?
SMI Chat ships an update every 3 weeks, and InferrLM every 5 days. Most recently, SMI Chat was updated on October 6, 2026 and InferrLM on October 20, 2026.

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