Comparison

Local Brain vs LocalQuill

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Run AI models locally
  • Full offline capability
  • Choose from multiple models
  • Create multiple chat contexts
  • Privacy-focused AI
Features
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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.

About

LocalQuill

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Local Brain2 screens
LocalQuill4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Local Brain versus LocalQuill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLocal BrainLocalQuill
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.9 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichal Jachilmalabs, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Local Brain

No in-app purchases

None

LocalQuill

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Local Brain free?
Local Brain is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LocalQuill free?
LocalQuill is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Local Brain or LocalQuill have ads?
Neither Local Brain nor LocalQuill shows ads.

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