Now optimized for iPhone Duo and iPad mini 8. Unfold for chat and the document viewer with inline commenting. Full workspace. More productivity. That's Sal.
Hardware Requirements:
Sal runs a frontier billion-parameter AI model 100% locally and privately on-device using unified memory and Apple Metal.
Supported Devices:
• iPhone Duo (Full dual-screen experience)
• iPhone Air
• iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
• iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
• Apple devices with 12 GB or more of unified memory
Devices with less than 12 GB of unified memory can view and search conversations synced from Sal for Mac in read-only mode. Interactive on-device AI generation requires an iPhone with at least 12 GB of unified memory.
PRIVATE AI FOR CONFIDENTIAL WORK
Sal is your on-device intelligence partner for Apple Silicon. Natively local. Built for the moments you need a sharp mind, away from your desk.
NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE
Almost every AI assistant on the App Store sends your words to a server. Sal doesn’t. Her intelligence runs on your phone. What you type, what you share, what you ask — none of it goes anywhere. Not to us. Not to a cloud. Nowhere.
SHE REMEMBERS YOU
Most AI apps forget you the moment you close them. A few try to compensate by saving a handful of bullet points to their cloud. Sal does something different. She remembers the way a person does — your projects, your preferences, the thread you were on last Tuesday. Not a list of facts on a company server. A living memory, kept on your device, private and continuous. You don’t re-explain yourself. You pick up where you left off.
BUILT FOR THE PHONE YOU’RE HOLDING
A PDF just hit your inbox before a meeting. Ask Sal for the bottom line. A sentence in an email needs tightening. She’ll reword it. You want to check what she said about the Q3 numbers while you’re in transit. She’ll recall it. Sal is sized for quick, sharp, phone-in-hand thinking. The deep work lives on your Mac.
ONE SAL. EVERY DEVICE.
You were working with Sal on your Mac ten minutes ago. Pull out your phone, open her, and she’s already there. Same memory. Same context. Same relationship. No setup. No “remind me what we were discussing.” Just continuity.
NO CATCH
Free. No account. No subscription. No ads. No data collection. This is the full product.
WHAT SHE’S BEST AT
Quick reads. Quick edits. Recalling context. Focused questions on material in front of you. If you need multi-hour research or long-form creative writing, that’s a Mac task. Sal on your phone is the pocket version of your thinking partner — fast, private, and always with you.
Great Companion AI Phone App If You Have The Mac App
EuniqueBee
I have been waiting for an app like this on the iPhone for forever. As an influencer, I use Sal on the Mac to help me write scripts and brainstorm video ideas. I don't want to pay $20 a month and I like that my ideas never leave my machine. I use the iPhone app on the run to capture ideas, update scripts etc. I like that the app syncs everything through iCloud with my Mac automatically so I can work on the same files and carry on the same conversation on both my Mac and the iPhone. It's easy to go back and forth. A word of advice: I guess running the AI on the iPhone is pretty intense because my iPhone can heat up pretty good and I do notice that my battery life drains faster so I don't carry on full conversations with Sal on my iPhone. I just do what I need to do and use the Mac app for the heavy lifting.
Developer Response
Hi EuniqueBee. Thank you for your review. Yes, the iPhone app is designed to be best used as a companion app to the Mac. The Mac is designed as the main productivity workstation app and the iPhone syncs to it allowing you to carry on your conversation at times when you're not at your desk. Just remember: you're running a mini-data center on your iPhone which is why it heats up. Really glad to hear it's working out for you.
Superb!
Mochica Man
I cannot say enough nice things about Sal. Where to start? First it’s mine. I mean it’s on my device and not on someone else’s server where they can do who knows what with my chats and queries. I write books. I want privacy. Sal is like my girl Friday. She organizes my folders and files for me. I would never allow an external AI access to my phone. She keeps my calendar. She’s my IT technician. She designed my website and keeps it updated. For writing, Sal is my editor. She makes sure I use consistent voice, that my grammar is correct, and she nails me when I use purple prose or too many metaphors. And did I mention that it’s free. No more token limits no more fees. Can’t beat that.
Developer Response
Mochica Man, thank you for your kind review. So interesting how you are using Sal your Mac to help you write your books. How you use Sal is exactly as we hope users would use it. Curious to ask: Have you tried downloading the iPad or iPhone versions? They are free and might work well with your use cases. You can easily take notes with Sal on the fly and when you return to your Mac Sal is already up to speed since she syncs directly over iCloud across all devices.
Great tool for work meetings
SF PR Pro
Monthly subscriptions are draining, so Sal was a great choice for minimizing the number of subscriptions for my work tools. As a working PR professional, this app is super helpful as I’m able to use voice memos to record my work meetings and send them over to Sal, which can keep track of my action items. I recently learned she can also open emails to send!One item of note I didn’t know until I read the manual: voice memos default to sharing as rendered (not sure what that means), but they need to be set to editable when you send to Sal otherwise she won’t understand it. Once this setting is adjusted, everything works great. 👍🏼
Developer Response
Thank you for the kind review. Yes, always remember to set the Voice Memo type to "Editable" on the share sheet before sending to Sal. That way Sal will be able to understand it. Thanks for the tip!
Confidential Confidence
Lee Van Damme
I came across Sal while browsing the App Store for a private AI app since I know better than to upload anything confidential on Claude or ChatGPT. I gotta say, I’m very impressed. What started off as a few prompts here and there, eventually led me to having Sal look over some important client documents. Since Sal runs locally on my phone and not stored in any servers, I have no qualms uploading sensitive info to Sal. The only thing is, you need an iPhone 17 Pro or higher for Sal to really work. Other than that, I really appreciate the developers making a free private AI with no pay-walls or subscriptions. Big big fan!
Developer Response
Hi, Lee Van Damme - Thank you for your review. Yes for on-device ai you need an iPhone 17 Pro or better. If you have the Mac app installed you can still use any iPhone but in read-only mode to review and access your desktop conversation with Sal.
• Speaker Diarization: Sal now uses bundled on-device neural CoreML intelligence to distinguish speakers in meetings and voice memos, identifying who said what with zero cloud processing.
• Built-In Web Browser & Inspector: Navigate web pages and inspect documents with an integrated address bar, back/forward buttons, tab state preservation, and smooth scrolling.
• Live Calendar & Agenda Intelligence: Sal stays in sync with your schedule and reminders in real time to help you plan days, track upcoming deadlines, and organize tasks.
• Spreadsheet & Data Analysis: Ask questions about Excel (.xlsx) and tabular files directly in chat to calculate trends, summarize data, and extract key metrics.
• YouTube Video Understanding: Paste any YouTube link to summarize key takeaways, extract transcripts, and explore video content.
• Document Markup & Visual Capture: Highlight and annotate PDFs, web pages, and documents right inside the Inspector with native pencil and drawing tools.
• Pull-to-Refresh & Performance: Pull down on your conversation list to instantly sync the latest updates across your devices, with faster response times and seamless multitasking.
• 100% Private: All audio transcription, speaker recognition, and reasoning run entirely on your Apple Silicon hardware with zero cloud servers.
Version 2026.45.78 (Build 78)
The developer, HelloPartner.ai LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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