Comparison

MLXHub vs DevKit

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

Head to head
About

MLXHub

Run powerful AI language models privately on your iPhone or iPad. Your data stays on your device, with options for distributed inference across multiple devices and a local LAN server for API access.

Highlights
  • Run AI models locally on device
  • Distributed inference across devices (experimental)
  • Chat with LLMs and VLMs
  • Customizable AI personality and system instructions
  • Browse and install models from catalog or HuggingFace
  • Local LAN server for API access
  • Optimized for Apple Silicon
Features
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An AI that lives on your iPhone and iPad, even without internet. Talk to it and hear it answer out loud, create images right on your device, and turn it into a server for your local network. No message counter. Talk to it. It talks back. Voice mode transcribes what you say on your device, in the languages you have set up, answers with a natural voice and lets you cut in whenever you want. An assistant that can help you act Ask about your calendar, reminders, Health data, photos or music library with supported tools; you choose which ones to authorize. With MLXHub Plus, create events and reminders, log Health data and save reusable instructions as Skills. Tools and results depend on the model you choose. Memory you control Keep what is worth remembering for future chats, and review, pin or delete it in Settings. With Plus, compatible models can also save or remove memories on their own. Create images on your device Download a compatible image model and generate images without uploading anything to the cloud, from the Image tab or by asking in a chat. Pause an image and resume it later. Free up to 512 px; up to 1280 px with Plus. Bigger open models Download open-weight language and vision models. Supported MoE models load their experts from storage when needed, which is how a 35B MoE runs on iPhone 17 Pro Max and on supported iPads. Capacity and performance depend on your device, model and context. Text, photos and documents Write, attach a photo or a document and ask a compatible model for help, with the personality and instructions you set. On devices with Apple Intelligence you can also use Apple's on-device model. Measure your device The benchmark scores the speed of your iPhone or iPad with real models. Publish your result to the leaderboard and compare it with other devices. Your devices, working together Connect compatible devices on your local network to run models across them. Joining a mesh is free; hosting one requires MLXHub Plus. A local server for your apps Serve chat and embeddings to apps and scripts on your local network through a standard chat completions API (/v1/chat/completions, /v1/embeddings), with authentication and local discovery. It includes a web chat portal for any browser on your Wi-Fi and a voice center to talk to the server's model. Unlock the server with a one-time purchase or with MLXHub Plus; it runs while the app is in the foreground. All yours, unmetered No token limits, no message caps, no monthly quota, and no AI company keeping an eye on what you write. Inference happens inside your device, and your conversations are not uploaded to any cloud AI service: an assistant and a server you can use without limits, under your control. And if you would rather not subscribe, the one-time Lifetime purchase gives you unlimited inference for life and every feature that lands later, at no extra cost. Because this keeps getting better: with every update, every week with each new open-weight model and every year with each new device and iOS release from Apple. Privacy and connections Downloaded models can work offline. Features you enable, such as web tools, the LAN server and mesh, communicate with their services or devices. No ads or required MLXHub account. Anonymous product analytics and diagnostics can be turned off in Settings. See our Privacy Policy. Requires an iPhone or iPad with an A14 or M1 chip or later. Available models depend on your device's memory. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

DevKit

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DevKit is the developer toolbox you already keep open in a browser tab, rebuilt as a native app for iPhone, iPad and Mac — and it works with the radio off. Paste something and DevKit works out what it is. A JSON Web Token, a certificate, a cron line, a CIDR block, a colour, a hex digest: it recognises the shape and offers the right tool. WHAT YOU GET FREE • JSON Format — pretty-print, minify and validate, keeping your key order and number literals • JWT Decode — header, claims and expiry, with optional HMAC verification • Base64 — standard and URL-safe, padded or not • URL Encode — query, form and path semantics • Regex Tester — matches, capture groups, named groups, replace and split • Hash — MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 • UUID Generate — version 4 and time-ordered version 7, in bulk • Unix Time — epoch seconds, milliseconds, microseconds and nanoseconds, any time zone • Colour Convert — HEX, RGB, HSL, HSB, CMYK, with WCAG contrast ratios • String Case — camel, snake, kebab, Pascal and eight more, all at once • Number Base — binary, octal, decimal, hex and any base from 2 to 36, with a bit view • Text Diff — line-by-line comparison with counts WHAT PRO ADDS All 42 tools, including YAML ↔ JSON, XML ↔ JSON, CSV ↔ JSON, HTML entities, string escaping for six languages, ULID and NanoID, HMAC, PBKDF2 calibration, a cron parser that tells you the next ten runs, JSONPath with jq-style pipes, a SQL formatter, native Markdown preview, an offline HTML preview, X.509 certificate decoding, RSA and EC key inspection, QR generation and scanning, lorem ipsum, text statistics, slugify, chmod, IP and CIDR maths, MIME lookup, HTTP status reference, Unicode inspection, seeded sample data, time-zone conversion, semver comparison, URL parsing, a query-string builder and a searchable git command reference. Pro also unlocks unlimited history, iCloud sync of your favourites and history, Home Screen widgets, and the share extension. BUILT FOR HOW YOU WORK • Every tool is a Shortcuts action, so you can compose them into automations • Send selected text straight to DevKit from any app, or from the Services menu on a Mac • Search and keyboard shortcuts on iPad and Mac, and a menu bar popover on macOS • Favourites, history and drafts that pick up where you left off PRIVACY, PLAINLY DevKit makes no network requests. It has no account, no analytics and no third-party SDKs. Everything you paste is processed on your device. History is stored locally, you can turn off saving previews, and you can erase everything from Settings. One purchase covers your iPhone, iPad and Mac. TERMS AND PRIVACY Terms of Use: https://devkit.eonix.lk/terms Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://devkit.eonix.lk/privacy

Screenshots

MLXHub4 screens
DevKit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MLXHub at none against DevKit's 3. DevKit's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. DevKit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. MLXHub asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MLXHub versus DevKit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMLXHubDevKit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB7 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJuan ColillaEonix (Pvt) Ltd

In-app purchases

None

MLXHub

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

DevKit

Subscriptions2
  • DevKit Pro — Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • DevKit Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • DevKit Pro — Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is MLXHub free?
MLXHub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DevKit free?
DevKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MLXHub or DevKit have ads?
Neither MLXHub nor DevKit shows ads.

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