Comparison

Private LLM vs Personal LLM

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

Head to head
About

Private LLM

Run powerful AI assistants entirely on your device without accounts or cloud services. This app keeps conversations private, works offline, and offers model flexibility for various tasks like writing, summarizing, and brainstorming.

Highlights
  • 100% on-device AI
  • Offline functionality
  • No sign-in or tracking
  • Model flexibility (Gemma, Llama)
  • Text writing and summarization
  • Brainstorming and translation
Features
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Private LLM: Palisade allows you to run powerful AI assistants entirely on your iPhone/iPad—no account, no cloud, no tracking. Palisade keeps your conversations on your device, even in airplane mode. Why Palisade 100% on-device: Works fully offline; nothing is sent to external servers. Private by design: No sign-in, no ads, no background data collection. Fast & handy: Ask questions, write and summarize text, translate, and brainstorm. Model flexibility: Use efficient on-device models (Gemma, Llama, etc.) Great for Sensitive notes and work that must stay offline Study and travel—reliable even without internet Developers who want a local AI companion What to expect Running AI models on-device means speed and quality depend on your device and the model size you choose. Privacy promise Your data stays on your device. Delete conversations anytime. Disclaimer: Generations from AI model can contain inaccuracies. Always verify important information independently.

About

Personal LLM

Features
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Chat with an AI that has nowhere to send your data. Personal LLM is a private, offline AI chat app: open AI models run entirely on your phone — no server, no account, and after a one-time model download no internet at all. YOUR AI, YOUR DEVICE Cloud chatbots send every word you type to a data centre. Personal LLM computes the answer on your phone's own chip: your chats, your photos and the models themselves stay with you. Uninstall it and everything is gone — nothing was ever anywhere else. WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE Download a model once, then chat anywhere: • On flights, subways and trips abroad • In dead zones and on unreliable connections • Whenever you want answers that stay private Switch on airplane mode if you like — the app won't notice. THE LATEST OPEN MODELS, PHONE-SIZED • Qwen 3.5 (0.8B, 4B, 9B) — fast, smart and multilingual • Google Gemma 4 (E2B, E4B) — mobile-first quality, 140+ languages • GLM 4.6V Flash — flagship-class vision for high-end phones • Ministral 3 — compact, with a 256k context window • Bring your own: load any GGUF model by URL (Hugging Face links work) Models are 0.8–6 GB downloads. A "Fits your device" badge reads your phone's RAM so you know what will run well before you download, the catalog is searchable and filterable, and interrupted downloads resume where they stopped. BENCHMARK IT ON YOUR OWN PHONE Run the built-in benchmark on any downloaded model to see exactly how fast it loads and generates on your hardware — tokens per second, GPU or CPU — and pick the model that fits. CHAT WITH YOUR DOCUMENTS Attach a PDF, text or Markdown file to any chat and ask about it: the text is extracted and searched on your phone, the model answers from the matching passages and tells you which ones it used. Contracts, papers, manuals, notes — none of it leaves the device. UNDERSTANDS IMAGES Every model in the catalog supports vision. Add the optional image-support file, then snap a photo or pick one from your gallery: read documents, translate signs, decode menus, describe scenes. WATCH IT THINK Turn on thinking mode and reasoning models show their step-by-step working in a collapsible panel above the answer — great for math, code and anything worth double-checking. A REAL CHAT APP • Markdown that renders: code blocks with one-tap copy, tables and lists • Streaming answers with a live tokens-per-second readout • Switch models mid-conversation from the chat header • A system prompt per chat, plus Creative / Balanced / Precise / Thinking presets • Edit, regenerate, copy, select text — or have any answer read aloud (on-device TTS) • Search your chats, pin favourites, light and dark themes • Back up every chat and setting to a single JSON file, and restore anywhere PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Conversations and photos never leave your device • No account, no sign-up, no server • GPU-accelerated by llama.cpp — Metal on iPhone, OpenCL on Snapdragon Adreno • Free to use, supported by ads — ads never interrupt an answer, and offline none can load Your questions are yours. Keep them that way.

Screenshots

Private LLM4 screens
Personal LLM4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Private LLM at none against Personal LLM's shown. On price, in-app purchases, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Private LLM versus Personal LLM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrivate LLMPersonal LLM
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB67 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNathan ManNelson Lai

In-app purchases

None

Private LLM

No in-app purchases

None

Personal LLM

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Private LLM free?
Private LLM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Personal LLM free?
Personal LLM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Private LLM or Personal LLM have ads?
Personal LLM shows ads; Private LLM does not.

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