SMI Chat vs InferrLM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | SMI Chat | InferrLM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Siliconmotion | Subhajit Gorai |
In-app purchases
SMI Chat
No in-app purchases
InferrLM
No in-app purchases









