# PocketPal AI

> Open-source app for running AI models offline on phones and tablets

PocketPal AI is a free, MIT-licensed app for iPhone, iPad and Android that runs open language models on the device itself. Models in GGUF format are downloaded from Hugging Face inside the app and then work with no connection and no account. Assistants called Pals carry their own model, system prompt and personality, and the PalsHub marketplace sells some community-made Pals as in-app purchases.

- **Category:** AI Assistants
- **Made by:** Gooya UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
- **Website:** https://pocketpal.dev
- **Runs on:** iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 9, 2026

## Pricing

PocketPal AI has a free plan. Paid plans start at $0.99 per premium Pal, one-time (US App Store in-app purchase).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** The app is free, ad-free and open source, with no subscription or paid tier for the AI itself. Only premium Pals from the PalsHub marketplace cost money.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | The full app: offline chat with GGUF models, Hugging Face downloads, text-to-speech, your own Pals, built-in tools and benchmarking. |
| Premium Pals | $0.99 to $2.99 per Pal, one-time in-app purchase (US App Store) | Optional community-made assistants from PalsHub. Google Play's US listing shows $1.39 to $2.79 per item, and the PalsHub website prices paid Pals from €1.49. |

Read from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocketpal-ai/id6502579498 on Oct 9, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with PocketPal AI before buying.

## Key features

- **On-device chat with GGUF models:** Runs open models such as Gemma, Qwen, Phi and Llama through llama.cpp on the phone's CPU, GPU or, on Qualcomm chips, NPU. Nothing is sent to a server.
- **Hugging Face downloads:** Search, bookmark and download GGUF models from the Hugging Face Hub inside the app, picking a quantization that fits the device. Gated models work with your own access token.
- **Pals and PalsHub:** A Pal is an assistant with its own default model, system prompt and personality, in Assistant or Roleplay form. PalsHub lists Pals made by other people, both free and paid.
- **On-device text-to-speech:** Replies can be read aloud by neural voice engines such as Kokoro that run on the phone, so speech needs no cloud service either.
- **Built-in tools:** Capable Pals can call tools in the middle of a conversation: a calculator, the current date and time, and rendering of HTML that the model writes.
- **Benchmarking and leaderboard:** Measures tokens per second and memory use for a model on your device. Results can optionally be submitted to the public AI Phone Leaderboard.

## Good for

- Running open models privately on an iPhone, iPad or Android phone
- Trying many GGUF models from Hugging Face on a mobile device
- Checking how fast a particular phone runs local models

## Worth knowing

- It is built for phones and tablets only; the App Store listing marks it as not verified for macOS.
- Which models run, and how fast, depends on the device's memory and chip, so each model's quantization has to be chosen to fit.
- The built-in tools are limited to a calculator, date and time, and HTML rendering.
- Premium Pals are paid extras, and prices differ between the App Store, Google Play and the PalsHub website, which charges in euros.

## Works with

Hugging Face

**Tags:** Chat assistant, Open source, Works offline, Local-first, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Private LLM](https://toolgpa.com/tools/private-llm): Offline AI chat app for iPhone, iPad and Mac with a one-time price. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pocketpal-ai-vs-private-llm)
- [Locally AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/locally-ai): Free app that runs open AI models offline on iPhone, iPad and Mac. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/locally-ai-vs-pocketpal-ai)
- [LM Studio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lm-studio): Desktop app for running open AI models on your own computer. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lm-studio-vs-pocketpal-ai)
- [Jan](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jan): Open-source desktop app for running local and cloud AI models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/jan-vs-pocketpal-ai)
- [Cherry Studio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cherry-studio): Open-source desktop AI client for 50+ model providers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cherry-studio-vs-pocketpal-ai)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 9, 2026:

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocketpal-ai/id6502579498
- https://github.com/a-ghorbani/pocketpal-ai
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/a-ghorbani/pocketpal-ai/main/README.md
- https://pocketpal.dev/
- https://pocketpal.dev/about
- https://pocketpal.dev/impressum
- https://palshub.ai/
- https://palshub.ai/legal/pricing-vat
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pocketpalai&hl=en_US&gl=US

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