Ari Helper 17+

Introducing Ari - Your Easy-to-Use AI Assistant!

Meet Ari, your personal AI assistant, right on your device! Similar to ChatGPT-4 and other popular AI assistants, Ari operates entirely offline, meaning no need for an internet connection.

Your privacy is our priority – Ari doesn't collect any of your personal data.

Ari can be initiated anywhere thanks to Siri and App Intents:
1. Simply activate Siri and say "Ask Ari"
2. then Siri will ask you for your question.
3. A few moments later Ari will relay its answer over Siri.

Enjoy the convenience of Ari's built-in Text-to-Speech feature, utilizing your device's default voice or the premium Ava Voice for an even better experience.

Copying responses is a breeze with Ari – simply long-press any message within the app.

You can Retry a prompt by long pressing any message you sent the AI even across models.

Ari also supports code syntax highlighting and copying of single code blocks in its AI responses.

Want to jump between conversations you've had with Ari, Now you can with the Previous Chats menu that syncs your conversation history with other apple devices connected to your iCloud Drive.

You can now download and run additional .gguf models in addition to the already bundled local model. There are a few tested models with simple download buttons, or you can paste a url to a specific model you want to use.

Ari can even interact with self hosted models from Ollama running on your Mac or Generate Images with DrawThings over gRPC.

In addition to local and self hosted privacy focused models, Ari can also communicate with a handful of models in the cloud by making use of each clouds api with your own supplied api keys for the services you want to use.

The supported clouds are:

OpenAI models:
GPT-5
GPT-5 mini
GPT-5 nano
GPT-Image 1
DALL-E 3

Grok models:
Grok 4
Grok fast code
Grok 3
Grok 3 mini
Grok 2 Image

Anthropic Claude models:
Claude 4.1 Opus
Claude 4 Opus
Claude 4 Sonnet
Claude 3 Opus
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Claude 3.5 Haiku

For cloud models that support image input, those models can be fed images from the Choose Photo main menu option now for multimodal support.

You can also import text document like source code files into a prompt so the ai can analyze them. this works for any text input models.

Any time you start interacting with a cloud AI model a privacy prompt is shown to remind you sending data to a cloud provider is subject to that cloud providers privacy policy and terms of service.

Note: Because Ari now syncs via iCloud, to ensure your conversations remain privately yours and fully encrypted, Please ensure you enable Advanced Data Protection in your Device's iCloud settings. Failure to enable this feature simply means your conversations with Ari are not fully encrypted but still are only accessible to those who have access to your iCloud account.

Powered by Gemma 3 4B LLM, an open-source technology from HuggingFace(Google), ensuring top-notch performance and reliability.

Download Ari now and experience the simplicity and efficiency of having an AI assistant at your fingertips!