Comparison

MLC Chat vs IntentOne

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Local AI model chat
  • Offline functionality
  • No internet required
  • Privacy-focused
  • Open-source project integration
  • Downloadable language models
Features
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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.

About

IntentOne

Features
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Find your words, even on the hard days Some days you know exactly what to say. Other days you’re tired, overwhelmed, or rewriting the same message twenty times IntentOne helps you turn what you mean into a message you’re ready to send WRITE FROM YOUR INTENT Tell IntentOne what you want to say or what you want to achieve. Start with a rough thought, a messy draft, or a conversation you don’t know how to begin STILL SOUND LIKE YOU Make a message shorter, warmer, or more formal while keeping your meaning. IntentOne learns how you prefer to communicate and uses that context to help you write LESS EXPLAINING, MORE CONTEXT Keep important details about you and the people you talk to in one place. Bring relevant context into your next message without starting from scratch HELP WITH CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER Use playbooks for situations like sales, negotiation, and conflict resolution. Ask for an extension, set a boundary, follow up, or reconnect with someone YOU CHOOSE WHAT TO SEND Review and edit your message, then copy it into the conversation Built from a personal need by a founder with autism and dyslexia, IntentOne is here to help you communicate when finding the right words takes more energy than you have today Free to try on iPhone. Also available on Mac Start with a 7-day free trial with 2,000 credits. After the trial, AI writing requires an active subscription. IntentOne Pro includes 10,000 credits per month. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Prices are shown in the app before purchase. Privacy Policy: https://intentone.ai/privacy Terms of Use: https://intentone.ai/terms

Screenshots

MLC Chat2 screens
IntentOne4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MLC Chat at none against IntentOne's 1. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. IntentOne sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.00 per month. MLC Chat asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
MLC Chat versus IntentOne: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMLC ChatIntentOne
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (78 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings78 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.7 GB24 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperTianqi ChenContextOne, Inc.

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
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  • 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
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  • 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

IntentOne

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

MLC Chat

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

IntentOne

Subscriptions1
  • IntentOne Pro$19.001 Month

Questions

Is MLC Chat free?
MLC Chat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IntentOne free?
IntentOne is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MLC Chat or IntentOne have ads?
Neither MLC Chat nor IntentOne shows ads.

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