Comparison

teemoon vs Phantasm

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

Head to head
About

teemoon

This app enables private AI chat by running models directly on your device or connecting to your own computer. It supports various local and cloud-based AI models, ensuring your conversations remain on your phone with no account or analytics.

Highlights
  • Private AI chat
  • On-device model execution
  • Connect to own computer
  • Bring-your-own-key support
  • No account or subscription
  • Open source
Features
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teemoon is a private AI chat app. there is no teemoon server. your phone talks directly to the model you pick. run a model on the phone, connect a computer you own, or paste a cloud API key. keys live in the iOS Keychain. chats stay on the device — SwiftData, no iCloud. • no account. no subscription. no analytics. • Gemma 4 on the phone via LiteRT. no key, works offline. • a computer you own is first-class: llama.cpp, ollama, lm studio, or any OpenAI-compatible server. • bring-your-own-key for near.ai, OpenRouter, NVIDIA, Grok, Fireworks, and other OpenAI-compatible providers. an Anthropic key does not work. • end-to-end encryption is near.ai's own TEE fleet only. every other cloud provider is TLS. the app says so on the row. requires iOS 18.6 or later. fully open source under AGPL-3.0 — the whole client is at github.com/teemoonai/teemoon-ios.

About

Phantasm

Features
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Phantasm is a private AI chat client for the backend you already run. Point it at your own server: Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint and chat with your own models over your own network. No account, no middleman, no data collection. YOUR SERVER, YOUR RULES • Connect with just a URL and a token — works against a bare Ollama out of the box • Add the open-source Phantasm orchestrator to unlock web search, image generation, and research modes • Multiple backend profiles for home network, VPN, or tunnel setups • Your token lives in the iOS Keychain; conversations are stored only on your phone A REAL CHAT EXPERIENCE • Fast streaming responses with markdown, syntax-highlighted code blocks with copy, and charts • Attach photos and files — vision models can see your images • Generated images appear inline; save or share them • Dictate messages with on-device transcription and have replies read aloud • Long generations survive backgrounding and pick up where they left off • Ask Phantasm from Siri and Shortcuts TOOLS ON YOUR TERMS • Per-chat toggles for web access and image generation • Optional device tools — location, calendar, Apple Health — are off by default and only shared with your own backend when you enable them • See the model's reasoning when a thinking model is selected PRIVATE BY DESIGN Phantasm operates no servers and collects no data. The app talks exclusively to the backend you configure — nothing else. What you say to your AI is between you and your hardware. Phantasm requires an OpenAI-compatible server that you provide (for example, Ollama running on your own machine). Feature availability depends on your backend's capabilities.

Screenshots

teemoon4 screens
Phantasm4 screens

Verdict

The call

teemoon and Phantasm are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

teemoon ships an update weekly, Phantasm every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
teemoon versus Phantasm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterteemoonPhantasm
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerringzero ventures, LLCBenjamin Carman

In-app purchases

None

teemoon

No in-app purchases

None

Phantasm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is teemoon free?
teemoon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Phantasm free?
Phantasm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do teemoon or Phantasm have ads?
Neither teemoon nor Phantasm shows ads.
Which is updated more often, teemoon or Phantasm?
teemoon ships an update weekly, and Phantasm every 8 days. Most recently, teemoon was updated on October 2, 2026 and Phantasm on October 9, 2026.

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