Off Grid - Private AI Chat

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Off Grid - Private AI Chat lets you run powerful AI language models directly on your iPhone - completely offline, with no internet connection required. Your data never leaves your device. No servers. No subscriptions. No tracking. Just private, instant AI that works anywhere - on a plane, in the mountains, or wherever you need it. FEATURES - Runs entirely on-device using Apple's Neural Engine - No internet connection required - ever - Supports multiple open-source LLMs - Private by design - zero telemetry, zero logging - Works in airplane mode, remote areas, and low-connectivity environments - Clean, fast interface designed for everyday use WHO IS THIS FOR? Off Grid is for anyone who values privacy, works in sensitive environments, or simply wants reliable AI without depending on cloud services - journalists, researchers, travelers, healthcare professionals, and everyday users who want their conversations to stay private. Off Grid - Local AI. Powerful AI, completely off the grid.

This is a big stability and control release. New: - Model Loading modes (Lean, Balanced, Aggressive) to control how much memory models get - Model manager shows what's loaded and its RAM, with per-model Eject and Eject All (voice and transcription included) - Transcription (STT) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) now in Model Settings - Turn Thinking on or off for reasoning models right from chat - Cloud marker distinguishes remote models from on-device ones - Repair action for vision models missing their projector file - "Stay in the loop" card in Settings, plus Follow on X and Join Slack links Fixes & improvements: - Downloads interrupted by an app-kill come back as retryable cards instead of vanishing; queued downloads survive a restart and resume - Failed downloads show in the badge count and Download Manager - Voice notes and dictation transcribe reliably; push-to-talk has a clear slide-to-cancel pill and the mic stays usable while a model loads - Stopping a reply keeps what was already written, reasoning included, and no longer wedges the chat or mislabels a stopped turn; a genuine token-limit cutoff now shows a clear indicator - Thinking toggle applies to the current turn; remote reasoning (LM Studio, Ollama) now shows in the Thinking block - Broken or partly-downloaded models are caught before generation with a plain error instead of a silent failure - 9B models load and run fast; switching models goes through the memory-aware loader so it doesn't run out of RAM - Load Anyway is offered for any model over budget and measures real free memory after clearing space - Image generation guides you on the GPU speed/quality trade-off and no longer produces garbage-resolution output - Image settings use your values, and Reset to Defaults resets them too - Context-length slider goes up to each model's real trained maximum - Knowledge-base search only runs when you turn it on - The image viewer closes before the Save prompt, and audio releases before the photo picker, fixing input and voice-mode hangs - Faster first launch, and Aggressive mode no longer overcommits memory

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