Local Brain vs LocalQuill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Local Brain
This app allows you to run powerful AI language models directly on your device, ensuring complete privacy and offline functionality. Select from various models and manage multiple conversations simultaneously for a personalized AI experience.
- Run AI models locally
- Full offline capability
- Choose from multiple models
- Create multiple chat contexts
- Privacy-focused AI
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Run Large Language Models locally on your device with full offline capability. You can choose from multiple available models and create multiple chat contexts using different models. The power of AI in your pocket without hurting your privacy.
LocalQuill
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LocalQuill is a private AI that lives on your phone. Chat with it, ask it anything, and let it fix your writing, without sending a single character to a server. Add the LocalQuill keyboard and get one-tap Fix, Rewrite and Translate in any app, in your own voice, powered by the on-device model in your phone. LocalQuill learns how you write, the words you actually use, and keeps that profile inside the keyboard where nothing can read it. The chat is a real assistant: explain, summarize, draft emails, plan, brainstorm, translate, read text out of photos, dictate by voice, and keep a memory of what matters to you. The model runs on the device: no account, no cloud, no tracking, and it works in airplane mode. - One-tap Fix that keeps your voice - Rewrite with a tone dial: casual, formal, shorter - Translate to 27 languages from the keyboard - Click-to-correct spelling chips, never silent autocorrect - No Full Access needed. The keyboard never touches the internet. - Chat with memory, photo text reading, dictation and read-aloud - Everything stored on your phone. Delete it any time. AI features use Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or newer, iOS 26 or later). Spelling correction works on every supported iPhone.
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Verdict
Local Brain and LocalQuill are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | Local Brain | LocalQuill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michal Jach | ilmalabs, LLC |
In-app purchases
Local Brain
No in-app purchases
LocalQuill
No in-app purchases









