Comparison

HelloAgent vs Local LLM runner

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

Head to head
About

HelloAgent

Features
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HelloAgent is an inbox for the personal AI agents you build. Build a small AI helper for yourself โ€” a research assistant, a coding tutor, a journal companion, a recipe ideator โ€” give it a handle, and chat with it from your phone or the web. Your agents, your handle, your inbox. โ€” Build your own agent with the open-source SDK in Python or TypeScript. Pick your model โ€” any LLM API or local runtime. Pick your tools. Pick your prompt. The agent runs wherever you want โ€” on your laptop, a VPS, a Raspberry Pi. โ€” Talk to it from anywhere. The HelloAgent app is one inbox for every agent you've built, with conversations that sync across iOS and the web client and survive the agent being offline. โ€” Sign in with Apple, Google, or email + password. โ€” Quiet, paper-textured design that takes the visual screaming out of chat. Optimised for long-form work, code blocks, and math. For builders: โ€” Open-source SDK in Python and TypeScript โ€” Streaming responses, tool calls, and capability declarations โ€” Per-user OAuth-scoped tokens for personal-agent links โ€” MIT licensed throughout โ€” relay, SDK, and clients Learn more at helloagent.cc.

About

Local LLM runner

Features
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Run LLM on your iPhone, 100% local, no network (Network needed once to download a model) Models: โ€ข Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct โ€” ~0.4 GB (4 GB RAM) โ€ข Llama 3.2 1B Instruct โ€” ~0.8 GB (4 GB RAM) โ€ข Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct โ€” ~0.9 GB (4 GB RAM) โ€ข Llama 3.2 3B Instruct โ€” ~1.9 GB (6 GB RAM) โ€ข Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507 โ€” ~2.5 GB (6 GB RAM) โ€ข Qwen2.5 7B Instruct โ€” ~4.4 GB (8 GB RAM) Also: โ€ข Add your own GGUF (for example, from Hugging Face) โ€ข Auto-estimated max context from GPU memory; you can change it Requires iOS 18 or later. Tested on iPhone 11, 14 Pro, 15 Pro with iOS 26. Qwen models ยฉ Alibaba Cloud. Licensed under Apache License 2.0. Llama 3.2 is licensed under the Llama 3.2 Community License, Copyright ยฉ Meta Platforms, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Built with Llama. On-device inference uses llama.cpp (MIT License).

Screenshots

HelloAgent3 screens
Local LLM runner4 screens

Verdict

The call

HelloAgent and Local LLM runner are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
HelloAgent versus Local LLM runner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelloAgentLocal LLM runner
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size14 MB25 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperHimanshu KumarValerii Lubnin

In-app purchases

None

HelloAgent

No in-app purchases

None

Local LLM runner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HelloAgent free?
HelloAgent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Local LLM runner free?
Local LLM runner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HelloAgent or Local LLM runner have ads?
Neither HelloAgent nor Local LLM runner shows ads.

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