Run Gemma, Qwen, and more completely offline. Use ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, or any other model online. Chat with voice, vision, and files. esper is your private AI chat.
esper - Offline & Private AI is your personal AI chat app—designed to keep your conversations private and powerful.
Run open-source models completely offline on your iPhone. With esper - Offline & Private AI, you can choose to keep your data on your device. No tracking.
Key Features of esper - Offline & Private AI:
– Run Offline
Download top open-source models like Qwen, Gemma, and DeepSeek directly to your phone—fully functional even without internet or WiFi.
– Bring Your Own Key
Prefer ChatGPT or Claude? Plug in your own API key and get instant access to premium models from their providers. Swap between models anytime, even within the same conversation.
– Multimodal Support
Chat with models that support vision for images, PDFs, and other files.
– Local RAG knowledge bases
Upload documents into organized collections that you can add to chats to provide extra context for models, all 100% private and offline.
– Local Image Generation
Run stable diffusion directly on your device for unlimited image generations, with esper Pro.
– Web search
Ground your requests with search results with any model, or use native web search from providers like Google, xAI, OpenRouter, and more.
– Shortcuts
Send prompts and attachments to esper from shortcut workflows
– Branching Conversations
Explore different chat paths and easily toggle between threads.
– Privacy-First
No analytics, no log storage, no server necessary. esper - Offline & Private AI gives total user control to choose completely offline chats, or connect with their favourite online providers. The choice is yours.
– Custom GPTs & Model Swapping
Build and edit your own GPTs. Switch models mid-conversation—from Gemini to Claude in a single chat.
– Customizable
Adjust the interface to match your personal style. Take control of conversations with editing, deleting, or retrying messages.
– iCloud Sync
Sync conversations across your devices with Pro.
– Go Pro
Pro gives you unlimited model downloads, local image models, knowledge base access, iCloud Syncing, Kokoro voice model, and optional color themes and animations.
If you want an AI chat experience that’s powerful, flexible, and private, esper - Offline & Private AI is built for you.
esper - Offline & Private AI seriously blew me away. This isn’t just another AI chat app—it’s something completely different. It gives you full control over your experience, without any of the weird tracking or server dependency most apps come with.What I love most:• It actually runs offline.You can download models like LLaMA, R1, or Gemma directly to your phone and use them with zero internet. It’s fast, it works, and it keeps your data completely private. No sketchy cloud stuff in the background.• Total flexibility.You can bring your own API key if you want to use models like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. You can even switch between them mid-chat. The model swapping is seamless and super useful.• Privacy-first, no nonsense.No analytics, no logs, no server storage. You choose how you use it—offline, or connect to a provider you trust. Either way, your info stays yours.• Packed with features.Multimodal support (images, PDFs, etc.), branching chats so you can explore different ideas without losing your spot, and even full GPT customization. Plus, the interface is clean and you can edit or retry messages whenever you want.⸻Bottom line: if you want a serious AI experience that puts you in control, esper is the one. Private, powerful, flexible—it’s exactly what I was looking for.Also, shoutout to Cody the developer—pretty sure this guy coded the app with one hand and fended off Big Tech with the other.
This update of esper - Offline & Private AI includes new features and bug fixes. Visit esper-ai.com/changelog for more information.
Version 1.6.3
The developer, Cody Ingram, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Voice Control
Information
Seller
Cody Ingram
Size
159 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
