MLC Chat vs Chat with AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MLC Chat
Engage in conversations with open language models directly on your iPad or iPhone. Once a model is downloaded, all interactions occur locally, ensuring privacy and offline functionality without internet access. This app is designed for non-commercial use, allowing you to run various open-source language models on your device.
- Local AI model chat
- Offline functionality
- No internet required
- Privacy-focused
- Open-source project integration
- Downloadable language models
Read full descriptionHide full description
MLC Chat lets users chat with open language models locally on ipads and iphones. After a model is downloaded to the app, everything runs locally without server support, and it works without internet connections do not record any information. Because the models run locally, it only works for the devices with sufficient VRAM depending on the models being used. MLC Chat is part of open source project MLC LLM, with allows any language model to be deployed natively on a diverse set of hardware backends and native applications. MLC Chat is a runtime that runs different open model architectures on your phone. The app is intended for non-commercial purposes. It allows you to run open-language models downloaded from the internet. Each model can be subject to its respective licenses.
Chat with AI
Engage in advanced conversations with a powerful AI chatbot assistant. This app leverages cutting-edge Claude 3 AI technology for unparalleled text generation and streamlined communication. It also offers support for the Shortcuts app to simplify your scripts.
- Conversational AI
- Advanced text generation
- Claude 3 models
- Shortcuts app support
- Streamlined communication
Read full descriptionHide full description
Engage in seamless conversations with Chat with AI, a fast and powerful AI chatbot assistant powered by advanced 3rd generation Claude AI technology. Explore the world of conversational AI with this cutting-edge language model, offering unparalleled text generation capabilities. This AI chat assistant simplifies communication and offers built-in Shortcuts app support to streamline your scripts. Download now to experience the future of AI chatbots! Sozzled Inc. is not associated with Anthropic PBC. This app uses Claude 3 models but is not an official Anthropic product. Privacy Policy: https://sozzled.app/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://sozzled.app/terms.html
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MLC Chat at 68% against Chat with AI's 28%. MLC Chat also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4). Chat with AI's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Chat with AI sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per 7 days. MLC Chat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chat with AI holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chat with AI has 683 ratings behind it against 78, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of MLC Chat's written reviews are positive against 28% of Chat with AI's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MLC Chat ships an update every 2 months, Chat with AI every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on August 19, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MLC Chat | Chat with AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (78 ratings) | 4.6 (683 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.3% of reviews — better | 28.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 78 | 683 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.7 GB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tianqi Chen | Sozzled LLC |
Customer experience
MLC Chat
Chat with AI
User reviews
MLC Chat
From 78 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Runs fast locally
- ✅ Works offline
- 💰 Free to use
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Supports various LLM models
Room to improve
- ⚠️ Limited model selection
- 📉 High VRAM requirements
- 📱 Incompatible with older devices
- ❌ Crashes on some devices/models
- 🗄️ Cannot save conversations
Chat with AI
From 683 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Seamless UI and easy to use
- 🚀 Awesome performance
- 💡 Serious chat with depth and quality
Room to improve
- 🐛 Keyboard bug preventing collapse
- 🐛 Inability to copy suggested text
- 💰 Misleading app, not official
- 💰 Expensive, credits run out quickly
- 💰 Paywall, requires purchasing tokens
Bugs and requests
MLC Chat
Reported bugs
17 issues- Phi model crashes on iOS 26.0.1 17 Pro Max
- App crashes on iPad Pro 4th Gen, iPadOs 17.7
- RedPajama model crashes app on initialization
- Update is extremely slow
- Download model button disabled in new version
Show 12 moreShow fewer
- RedPajama model crashes, custom model download removed
- App closes when hitting send on iPhone 13
- Conversation resets when app is backgrounded
- Vicuna and Mistral 7B models cause crashes
- Some 7b q4f16/q4f32 models crash on iPhone 15 Pro
- App crashes on iPhone 13 mini
- Cannot load other models from URL
- Crash on iPhone 12
- Severe heating and frequency reduction on A15
- Low VRAM failed initialization on 3GB LP DDR4X phone
- Cannot run 4bit model on iPhone 15 with 8GB RAM
- Loading models from HF MLC official Repo causes crashes
Requested features
14 requests- Ability to import custom models (from URL/Hugging Face)
- Support for more specific models (DeepSeek, Phi-2, Gemma 2B/7B, MoE Mixtral 8x7B, LLaVA)
- History of conversations
- iOS shortcuts support
- Ability to export entire responses
Show 9 moreShow fewer
- Information on VRAM requirements per phone/model
- Ability to change system message/create custom profiles
- Ability to edit responses and system prompt
- Add coffee support
- Delete downloaded models
- Change settings per model (repetition penalties, temperature)
- How-to guide for importing/recompiling LLMs
- Estimate model compatibility before download
- Support for CN and ZH languages
Chat with AI
Reported bugs
3 issues- Keyboard bug preventing collapse
- Inability to copy suggested text
- Errors due to insufficient tokens
Requested features
2 requests- Allow copying of suggested text
- Improve object identification capabilities
In-app purchases
MLC Chat
No in-app purchases
Chat with AI
- Unlimited Weekly$14.997 Days
- 10,000 Tokens$1.99
- 50,000 Tokens$4.99
- 150,000 Tokens$9.99
