Comparison

Solair AI vs PocketLLM's

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

Head to head
About

Solair AI

This app provides powerful AI capabilities directly on your device, ensuring complete privacy for your conversations, health data, and documents. It offers various AI models for different tasks, including image analysis and document summarization, with optional web search for up-to-date information.

Highlights
  • 100% On-Device AI Processing
  • Auto Mode for Task-Specific Models
  • Complete Privacy and No Data Collection
  • Health Intelligence with Apple Health Integration
  • Voice Mode for Spoken Conversations
  • Personal Memory and Document Analysis
  • Multiple AI Models and Vision Capabilities
Features
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Private by default. Frontier when you want it. Solair puts every kind of AI in your pocket, and keeps it private. Run powerful models fully on-device with no account and no internet, or connect Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and more when you want the frontier. Create images along the way, and keep every one in a gallery of your own. RUN AI ON YOUR DEVICE • 100% on-device models, no account, no sign-up, no tracking. Once a model downloads, everything works offline. • Your conversations, photos, health data, and documents are processed locally and never leave your device. • Auto Mode picks the right model for each message: Fast for quick questions, Smart for deep reasoning, Vision for photos and documents. • A duress code and fully local processing mean no one can read your data, not even us. BRING YOUR FAVORITE AI • Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Kimi, DeepSeek, Mistral, and more in one tap, just paste your API key. • Send photos, PDFs, and videos, watch reasoning models think, and generate images where supported. • Real web research: cloud models search the web themselves and show every source they read. • With your permission, they can read your health, calendar, and weather, and chart it for you. • Tokens, estimated spend, and voice minutes tracked per provider. • Your memory and past chats stay on your device unless you choose to share them. CREATE IMAGES, AND KEEP THEM ALL • Generate images right in your conversation. Choose the quality, the shape, and how many, and see what each option costs before you create. • Every image you make lands in a gallery of your own: folders you name, favorites, and full-screen browsing. • Pinch to zoom, swipe to move through them, and see them in real HDR that glows on your display. • Jump from any image straight back to the conversation that created it. TALK TO IT • Live voice conversations with ChatGPT and Grok, interrupt anytime, and the whole talk lands in your chat as a transcript. • Every other provider gets a voice on-device, only text ever leaves your phone, never audio, and live transcription types your words as you speak. MORE TO LOVE • Build your own apps (beta): describe one in a sentence and Solair makes a real, working app that runs offline. Four finished apps are included. • Scheduled tasks: give Solair a job and a time, and the answer arrives as a notification, all on your device. • Personas: chat with friends, historical figures, or build your own. • Personal memory that learns your preferences, and document analysis with instant summaries. • Health intelligence, ask about steps, sleep, and workouts from Apple Health, all on-device. Informational only, not medical advice. • Connect to your own server (Ollama and more) securely over Tailscale. • A beautiful Liquid Glass interface for iOS 26, with an engine switcher, sidebar search, and customizable themes. • Models included: Qwen3 & 3.5, Llama 3.2, Mistral, Gemma 3, plus coding, lightweight, and vision models like Qwen VL and LFM2.5. WHY SOLAIR Most AI apps send everything to the cloud. Solair runs on your device first, so your private data stays private, and reaches for the cloud only when you choose. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone A14 or newer, iPad A12 or newer, Mac with Apple Silicon. iOS 26 or later. 500MB to 5GB per on-device model. Solair is free with no ads. Optional tips support development but never lock features. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

PocketLLM's

This app allows you to run large language models entirely on your device without an internet connection. Access a vast library of free models, create custom personas, and keep your conversations private. An optional Pro subscription unlocks advanced features like document chat and personal data indexing.

Highlights
  • On-device AI model execution
  • No internet or account needed
  • 36 free AI models available
  • Image analysis capabilities
  • Offline translation
  • Custom AI personas
  • Export conversations
Features
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Every model is free. Every conversation stays on your iPhone. PocketLLM runs large language models entirely on-device using Apple Silicon. No cloud. No servers. No account. No internet needed once a model is downloaded. 36 MODELS, ALL FREE Download any model in the catalogue at no cost — from a 290 MB model that runs on older iPhones to an 8 GB model for iPad Pro and Mac. Qwen, Llama, Gemma, Phi, Mistral, DeepSeek, SmolLM, Granite and Liquid, plus Apple's built-in on-device model on supported devices. Six of them can see images. Unlimited messages. No daily cap. No paywall on any model, ever. BRING YOUR OWN MODEL Paste any HuggingFace repo and PocketLLM checks it against the on-device runtime before downloading a single byte — so you know it will actually run first. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No analytics. No tracking. No telemetry. Conversations are stored only on your device. Turn on airplane-mode-enforced for a hard offline guarantee, and lock the app behind Face ID. FREE, WITH NO LIMITS • All 36 models, unlimited chats • Vision — ask questions about photos, screenshots and receipts • Offline translator across 24 languages • Custom AI personas and a prompt library • Memory that carries facts across conversations • Compare two personas side by side • Export as PDF, Markdown or text • Widget, Lock Screen controls and a Share extension • Benchmarks to measure model speed on your device • Face ID lock • iPad and Mac Catalyst POCKETLLM PRO Pro doesn't sell you models — open weights are free everywhere, and they're free here. Pro pays for the app itself: • Personal Data — index your files, photos and calendar on-device, then ask questions about them. Photos are read with on-device OCR. Nothing is uploaded. No cloud assistant can do this. • Document chat — ask questions across your PDFs and notes with cited sources • Hands-free voice mode — speak your prompts and hear replies read aloud Weekly $0.99 · Monthly $4.99 · Yearly $44.99 Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID on confirmation. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://ghassanjaa.github.io/pocketLLM-sLandingPage/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://ghassanjaa.github.io/pocketLLM-sLandingPage/terms.html

Screenshots

Solair AI4 screens
PocketLLM's4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Solair AI at 81% against PocketLLM's's 0%. Solair AI also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.5) and monetization model (free vs freemium). PocketLLM's's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Solair AI sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and PocketLLM's sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Solair AI holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solair AI has 40 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Solair AI's written reviews are positive against 0% of PocketLLM's's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Solair AI ships an update weekly, PocketLLM's monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Solair AI versus PocketLLM's: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSolair AIPocketLLM's
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (40 ratings) — better2.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings40 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon MajarGhassan Jaam

Customer experience

Solair AI

All ratings29 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral3.4%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.8%

PocketLLM's

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Solair AI

One-time3
  • Coffee tip$3.99
  • Pizza$9.99
  • Thank you$19.99
3 purchases

PocketLLM's

Subscriptions3
  • Pro-Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Pro-Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pro-Yearly$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Solair AI free?
Solair AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PocketLLM's free?
PocketLLM's is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Solair AI or PocketLLM's?
Solair AI is rated higher. Solair AI averages 4.4 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while PocketLLM's averages 2.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Solair AI or PocketLLM's have ads?
Neither Solair AI nor PocketLLM's shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Solair AI or PocketLLM's?
Solair AI ships an update weekly, and PocketLLM's monthly. Most recently, Solair AI was updated on November 9, 2026 and PocketLLM's on November 7, 2026.

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