LocalRAG! vs WhattaRAG

LocalRAG! — Any file. One conversation. PDF, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, EPUB, images — and now audio recordings and video files. No matter the format, just add them to a collection. AI searches across all your documents at once. No cloud uploads required. NEW IN v3.0: AUDIO & VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION Import MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC audio files and MP4, MOV, M4V video files. WhisperKit transcribes everything entirely on your device — no audio ever leaves your phone. AI-powered cleanup automatically removes filler words and stutters for cleaner transcripts. Tap any answer to jump straight to the timestamped segment. HOW PEOPLE USE IT • Meeting recordings turned into searchable knowledge Import your meeting recordings. Ask "What was decided about the budget?" Get answers with timestamps you can jump to. • Lecture videos and study materials together Mix lecture videos, PDFs, and your notes in one collection. Ask "Explain the method in Chapter 3" — AI searches text and transcripts. • Interview recordings stay private Journalists, researchers, lawyers — your sensitive recordings are transcribed entirely on-device. Nothing is uploaded. • All your project docs in one place PDFs, Word minutes, Excel spreadsheets, audio briefings — formats don't matter. Just ask "What was decided?" • Search across languages English PDFs, Japanese spreadsheets, Thai notes — language doesn't matter. Ask in English, get answers from Japanese documents. 25 FORMATS SUPPORTED Documents (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, TXT, MD, CSV, RTF, HTML), images (JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP) with on-device OCR, audio (MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC) and video (MP4, MOV, M4V) with on-device WhisperKit transcription. Scanned and copy-protected PDFs also supported. PRIVACY FIRST Text extraction, transcription, indexing — all happen on your device. Your original files and audio recordings never leave your device. With the local LLM option, your questions and answers stay on the device too — no document text, no question, no answer is ever transmitted. With Claude API mode, only your question and relevant text snippets are sent. No account, no email, no advertising IDs, no third-party trackers. The app does send usage statistics so we can improve it — they never identify you and never include your content, and our Privacy Policy lists exactly what they contain. ANSWERS WITH SOURCES AI automatically finds relevant sections and responds with source citations — document name and page number, or audio file with timestamp. Tap a citation to jump straight to it. Summarize, translate, analyze — any instruction works. COLLECTIONS Organize documents into folders. Switch chat scope by collection for focused Q&A sessions. Supports hierarchical structure (up to 3 levels). BUILT-IN VIEWERS View PDFs, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, images, and audio/video transcripts directly in the app with thumbnail previews and timestamp navigation. MODEL SELECTION Use your own API key to choose between Claude Sonnet 5, Haiku 4.5, or Opus 5. Or switch to the built-in local LLM to keep your documents and questions entirely on-device. Balance speed, accuracy, and cost to suit your needs. 8 LANGUAGES Available in English, Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Korean, and Chinese. SUBSCRIPTION - 1-week free trial included - Full access to all features during trial - Subscription begins automatically after trial ends - Cancel anytime SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS - Monthly and yearly plans available - Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation - Subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Manage or cancel anytime in Account Settings Terms of Use: https://localrag.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://localrag.app/privacy

WhattaRAG answers questions about your own documents, entirely on your iPhone. Add a document — a PDF, a Markdown or text file, a link to an article, or text you paste in — and ask about it in plain language. Answers come back with citations to the exact passages they came from, so you can check the source rather than trust the model. Everything runs on the device The model, the search, and the document database all live on your iPhone. There are no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no crash reporters, and no advertising SDKs. Your documents and conversations are never uploaded, and the app works in airplane mode. The one exception is Add by URL: when you paste a link, the app fetches that page so it can read it. That is the app's only outbound network request, it happens only when you ask for it, and the fetched text is then stored on device like any other document. What it's good at • Finding a specific fact in a long document and citing where it came from • Questions about one section, one clause, one table, one paragraph • Reference material you return to — handbooks, papers, contracts, manuals, documentation • Working offline, on a plane, or anywhere you would rather not send a document to a server What it isn't It isn't a general chatbot, and it won't answer from outside your documents. Broad questions across an entire document — "summarize everything", "which is best", "how many in total" — are the weakest case, because the app reads the most relevant passages rather than the whole text. It tells you when an answer may be incomplete rather than pretending otherwise. Built native 100% native Swift and SwiftUI, around 4 MB. No web view, no bundled runtime, no JavaScript bridge. That's why it launches instantly and why it's small. Now in English and Spanish.