Nekoni vs HALIO AI

Nekoni connects your iPhone to an AI agent running on your own hardware - no cloud, no subscription, no data leaving your home. Most AI assistants send everything you type to a third-party server. Nekoni is different. You run the AI yourself, on your own machine, and your phone connects directly to it over an encrypted P2P channel. HOW IT WORKS Install the agent on any computer at home, scan a QR code to pair your phone, and start chatting. The connection goes device-to-device - your messages never touch an external server. FEATURES Chat - Talk to any model you run locally via Ollama: Llama, Mistral, Gemma, and more. Full conversation history with the ability to continue past sessions. Knowledge Base - Upload documents (PDF, text, markdown) and ask questions about them. The agent retrieves relevant context automatically before answering. Skills - Create named prompt templates for tasks you repeat often. Run them on demand or schedule them to run automatically on a schedule. Privacy by Design - Your identity is an Ed25519 key pair generated on your device and never shared. Pairing requires explicit approval from your dashboard. Every message is signed and authenticated. Works Anywhere - The connection uses WebRTC, the same technology behind video calls. Once paired, you can reach your home agent from anywhere in the world. REQUIREMENTS Nekoni requires the agent software running on a computer you control. Setup instructions and the open-source agent are available at https://github.com/nekonihq/nekoni.

HALIO is a private, offline-first AI assistant that lives on your iPhone. No cloud. No account. No subscription. No signal required. Every major AI app today sends your conversations to a server. HALIO doesn't. The model runs on your device, your prompts stay on your device, and your history never leaves your phone. Airplane mode, a spotty connection, or no connection at all — HALIO keeps working. WHY HALIO • 100% on-device — GPU-accelerated for fast, efficient inference on modern iPhones. • Truly private — your conversations are stored locally and never transmitted. • No sign-up — open the app and start chatting. • No subscription — one-time download, no hidden tiers, no server-side rate limits. • Offline by default — works on a plane, on the subway, in the woods, under a desk. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Ask questions, brainstorm ideas, draft writing, summarize notes. • Dictate messages with on-device speech recognition. • Attach photos from your library to ground a conversation. • Keep multiple conversations going in parallel. • Use it as a thinking partner without worrying who's reading. FROM BUILDERBIAS HALIO is built by BuilderBias — intentional, transparent, responsible AI by design. We believe your AI should work for you, not the other way around. That means running on hardware you own, with data you control, under terms you can read. Download HALIO. Go offline. Keep thinking.