Ari Helper vs Private AI

Introducing Ari - Your Easy-to-Use AI Assistant! Meet Ari, your personal AI assistant, right on your device! Ari runs its models on the device itself, so it works entirely offline — no internet connection required. Your privacy is our priority – Ari doesn't collect any of your personal data. Start Ari anywhere with Siri and App Intents — just say "Ask Ari," speak your question, and hear the answer back. Power users get a full Shortcuts catalog: Ask Ari with any model (Apple Intelligence, local, or cloud), start chats, generate and edit images, analyze PDFs, speak replies, change settings, queue Code Session tasks on Mac, and dispatch prompts to other devices — all chainable in Shortcuts. Ari is on your wrist too: the Apple Watch app remote-controls Ari on iPhone. Dictate from the "Ask Ari" complication or Smart Stack, watch answers stream in, hear them spoken, and hand long replies to iPhone. Questions queue when the phone is away; private chats stay off the watch. Conversations show up in Spotlight — including by what's in their images. Ari reads text and objects in chat pictures on-device so you can search for "that screenshot with the receipt". Private media is never indexed. With Sensitive Content Warning on, flagged images blur behind "Show Anyway" (verified adults can opt out). More to love: Text-to-Speech (device voice or Ava); long-press to copy or retry across models; syntax highlighting with one-tap code copy; Previous Chats synced via iCloud. On Apple Intelligence (iOS 26 / macOS 26 and later), Ari uses the on-device foundation model by default — private, no API key, no network. Attach images: on iOS 27 and macOS 27 the model sees them directly; on OS 26 Ari describes them on-device with the Vision framework (text, tables, barcodes, subjects). Prefer full vision models? Pick one from the menu. Download on-device models with a tap — Google's Gemma 4 for chat, Stable Diffusion converted for Core ML for pictures — or import a model folder of your own. Self-host with Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible server (LM Studio, vLLM, llama.cpp, LiteLLM), or generate images with Draw Things over gRPC. New in Ari 7: Ari makes pictures and films, and repairs the ones you already have. Films is a studio — write a film as a list of shots, render them one at a time, keep the ones that work, and watch the cut come together in a player above the timeline. Pictures get a canvas editor: brush over a crease and heal it, paint a leash or a stranger out of the frame, or treat the whole photograph — repair, denoise, sharpen camera shake, colorize, upscale four times. Every restoration model runs on your device and downloads on first use rather than shipping in the app. Point the camera at something and ask about it. Look at Something sends the frame to whichever model you have selected — on-device, self-hosted or cloud — captions the answer under the picture and speaks it if you like. Talk to it and it listens, answers, then listens again. It sits beside the microphone, and goes on the Lock Screen, Control Center, the Action Button or Siri. Cloud providers with your own keys: OpenAI (GPT-5 family and GPT Image), xAI Grok (4.5 plus Grok Imagine), Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini (plus Imagen and Veo), and AWS Bedrock. Image-capable models accept photos; import text and source files. Cloud use reminds you each provider's privacy policy applies. On Mac, open a Code Session on a project folder with Grok for agentic tools — read, edit, search, git, shell, browser, web, and MCP — so Ari's GUI agent matches a terminal coding agent. Note: For strongest privacy with iCloud sync, enable Advanced Data Protection. Without it, conversations stay limited to your iCloud account but are not fully end-to-end encrypted. Optionally powered by Gemma 4 (HuggingFace) for offline chat and image understanding. Download Ari and keep your AI assistant at your fingertips!

Transform how you work with information using Private AI: Document Chat, the AI assistant that keeps 100% of your data private on your device. No internet required. No data uploaded. Ever. 100% PRIVATE & OFFLINE Your conversations, documents, and data stay on YOUR device. Forever. Unlike ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or other cloud AI services, Private AI uses Apple's built-in Intelligence models for completely offline, lightning fast responses. Zero tracking. Zero uploads. Zero compromises. Perfect for confidential, sensitive, or personal use. NO HIDDEN COSTS No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No "premium" features locked behind paywalls. Buy once, use forever. POWERED BY APPLE INTELLIGENCE Built exclusively for iPhone 15 Pro+, iPad M1+, and Mac with Apple Silicon. No large, external vendor model downloads eating your storage - Private AI leverages the powerful AI models already in your device from Apple. Fast, efficient, and always ready. CHAT WITH YOUR DOCUMENTS Upload PDFs, code files, spreadsheets, notes, research papers, meeting transcripts, word documents, and more. With any text-based file, you can ask questions, get summaries, extract insights, analyze data, and more using advanced RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) technology. Your personal document library becomes instantly searchable and queryable. 25 SPECIALIZED AI EXPERTS READY TO USE No prompt engineering needed. Just pick your expert: • Study & Learn: Teacher, Summarizer, Simplifier • Coding: Code Expert, Debugger, Technical Writer • Writing: Creative Writer, ReWriter, Spell Checker, Poet, Story Teller • Business: Analyst, Marketer, Meeting Notes, Recruiter, Planner • Creative: Brainstormer, Social Media, Guide Creator, Motivator • Utility: Translator, Pros & Cons, Follow Ups, Concise Mode Plus, create unlimited custom prompts for your specific needs! VS CHATGPT, CLAUDE, GEMINI, & OTHERS They require internet & upload your data → Private AI is 100% offline They charge monthly subscriptions forever → Private AI is yours (one-time purchase) They track your usage & conversations → Private AI has zero analytics, zero tracking They can't guarantee where your data goes → Private AI your data never leaves your device WHO IS THIS FOR? • Students - Study aids, research analysis, essay help, exam prep • Professionals - Confidential docs, reports, presentations, meeting notes • Developers - Code review, debugging, documentation, architecture planning • Writers - Brainstorming, editing, storytelling, content creation • Researchers - Paper analysis, data insights, literature review Anyone who values privacy and wants to leverage AI with sensitive information that absolutely does not belong in the cloud. POWERFUL FEATURES • Multiple isolated conversations - keep contexts separate • Document library - reuse files across chats • Beautiful themes - customize every color • Smart search - find conversations and documents instantly • Markdown support - beautifully formatted responses • No ads, ever - you own the app, not the other way around HOW DOES IT WORK? Private AI uses Apple's Foundation Models that are already on compatible devices. When you upload a document, it's split into intelligent chunks and converted to vector embeddings (mathematical representations of meaning) stored in a local database. When you ask questions, our RAG system finds the most relevant chunks and provides them as context to the AI model alongside your query. The model generates responses using both the retrieved information and its built-in knowledge - all processed locally on your device's Neural Engine. No internet. No APIs. No cloud processing. Just pure, private, on-device AI. Your knowledge. Your privacy. Your control. Download Private AI: Document Chat and experience truly private AI assistance today. REQUIREMENTS: • iOS26 • iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 16+ models • iPad mini (A17 Pro) or iPad with M1+ • Mac with Apple Silicon (M1+)