AI Desktop 98

Name: AI Desktop 98
Rating: 4.3 (8 reviews)
Author: Pritesh Desai

Private AI, Retro Desktop

Free · Designed for iPad

8 Ratings
Age Rating

16+
Years
Category

Entertainment
Developer

Pritesh Desai
Language

EN
English
Size

2
GB

AI Desktop 98 wraps powerful AI assistants inside a fully interactive retro desktop, complete with a BIOS boot sequence, Start menu, taskbar, draggable windows, and authentic sound effects. Choose your AI: run Apple Intelligence on-device, load local MLX models, or connect to cloud providers like OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Groq, and more — all from the Control Panel. FEATURES - Full retro desktop — boot sequence, Start menu, taskbar, and windowed apps - Multiple AI backends: Apple Intelligence, local MLX models, or cloud APIs - 11 cloud providers supported, including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, and LM Studio - Save, rename, search, and organize conversations in My Documents - Recycle Bin with restore for deleted chats - Built-in retro web browser - Customizable chat fonts and text sizes - Export and share conversations as plain text or Markdown - Find dialog to search across all saved chats - Keyboard shortcuts for power users - CRT monitor overlay for maximum nostalgia - Authentic retro sound effects - Minesweeper PRIVACY On-device models run 100% locally — no internet required, no data collected, no accounts. Cloud API mode connects directly to your chosen provider using your own API key; nothing passes through our servers.

Ratings & Reviews

4.3

out of 5

8 Ratings

Fun with bugs
May 14

Hohenheim de Light
Fun for nostalgia but if you enable a glitchy model you’ll have to uninstall and restart due to a start loop. The built in Smol works great so keep with that. I tried Nemotron that gave me a desktop error due to MoE support, Mistral, which causes full unrecoverable app crash, and a Qwen 3 variant. Same crash unfortunately.

Developer Response
Hey de Light, do you remember which local model caused the crash?
Fun with bugs
May 14

Hohenheim de Light

Fun for nostalgia but if you enable a glitchy model you’ll have to uninstall and restart due to a start loop. The built in Smol works great so keep with that. I tried Nemotron that gave me a desktop error due to MoE support, Mistral, which causes full unrecoverable app crash, and a Qwen 3 variant. Same crash unfortunately.
Developer Response May 12
Hey de Light, do you remember which local model caused the crash?
Stellar!
Apr 2

Slyrunner
Please add more Easter eggs! This is honestly the coolest app I currently have on my phone.Also just for giggles. Find a way to add clippy and some working programs to emulate. Some old windows games would be dope!
Stellar!
Apr 2

Slyrunner

Please add more Easter eggs! This is honestly the coolest app I currently have on my phone.Also just for giggles. Find a way to add clippy and some working programs to emulate. Some old windows games would be dope!
5 Stars But with it was available for older devices
Apr 6

Just a random name98
Make available for older devices 🙏🏼
5 Stars But with it was available for older devices
Apr 6

Just a random name98

Make available for older devices 🙏🏼
Could it be?
Mar 29

Sky lover
Locally ran and ability to call apis to locally hosted or cloud llms. It feels so right and is a joy to use.
Could it be?
Mar 29

Sky lover

Locally ran and ability to call apis to locally hosted or cloud llms. It feels so right and is a joy to use.

BIOS update

Version 2.4 May 6

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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Information

Seller: Pritesh Desai
Size: 2 GB
Category: Entertainment
Compatibility: Requires iOS 26.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 16+

16+

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