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Privacy AI: Powerful chatbot

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Privacy AI: Powerful chatbot

by AcmeUp Inc.

4.7 (15) v2.0.25 966 MB Universal 17+

Description

Privacy AI is a general-purpose AI assistant for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Run local models fully offline, or connect to the cloud providers you already use, and keep your conversations on your device.

Run Models Locally or in the Cloud
- On-device GGUF and MLX models on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, including vision and tool-calling
- Connect to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, or any OpenAI-compatible server
- Apple on-device Foundation Model (iOS 26+)
- Switch between local and remote models mid-conversation without losing context
- Device RAM monitor for loaded models

Assistants and Tools
- Custom assistants: give an assistant a name, instructions, an avatar, and a reference knowledge base
- LLM Council: query several models in parallel and synthesize a combined answer
- 50+ built-in tools: web search, news, calendar, code execution, and more
- Full MCP support with an integrated marketplace
- Siri, Shortcuts, and Share Extension integration

Writing
- Long-form writing assistant that drafts outlines and chapters from a single premise
- Quality reports highlight issues for revision
- Export to EPUB

Voice
- On-device text-to-speech (Kokoro-82M, Fish Speech S2 Pro)
- OpenAI text-to-speech (gpt-4o-tts, gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- Real-time voice conversation and live transcription

Files and Content
- Convert PDFs, Office files, EPUB, video, and audio to Markdown
- OCR, photo EXIF metadata, Mermaid diagrams, LaTeX
- Export to Markdown, PDF, HTML, EPUB, or JSON
- Media Studio: generate images from text prompts using a provider and model of your choice

Accessibility
- Sound and haptic feedback for AI events
- Full VoiceOver coverage
- Verbose Announcements reads responses aloud on demand

Free to Use. No Ads.
Local model features are free, including the writing assistant, custom assistants, 50+ built-in tools, document reader, voice transcription, image generation, and iCloud sync. Cloud API models and the MCP marketplace require a subscription.

Privacy by Design
Privacy AI runs on-device. No backend servers. No accounts. No data collection. Your conversations never leave your device, and every API request is visible in the built-in Protocol Inspector.

Your models. Your device. Your data.

Medical Disclaimer
Privacy AI is a general-purpose AI assistant and is not a doctor. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Any health-related content is provided for informational and educational purposes only. In addition to using this app, always check with a doctor or other qualified healthcare professional before making any medical decisions. Never disregard or delay professional medical advice because of something you read or generated in this app. In case of a medical emergency, call your local emergency number immediately.

Terms of Use: https://privacyai.acmeup.com/docs/policy/tos.html
Privacy Policy: https://privacyai.acmeup.com/docs/policy/privacy.html

What's new (v2.0.25)

FEATURES
- Video Understanding From Any Link
Paste a link and the assistant pulls page text, title, and captions. Missing captions trigger on-device transcription. Social links merge post text with attached-video captions, and links with long tracking parameters no longer truncate. Works with most major video and social platforms.
- Real-Time Flight Search
New search_flight tool returns status, delays, gates, and baggage with fallback across FlightAware, AirLabs, AviationStack, AeroDataBox.

IMPROVEMENTS
- Faster first reply in a new chat (skips the relevance scorer).
- Keyboard opens automatically in empty chats.
- Input bar no longer collapses while a draft is in the field.
- Quick Ask, LLM Council, Siri, sub-agents no longer disturb an open OpenAI Responses chat.
- llama.cpp b9279: HunyuanOCR/HunyuanVL unified, DeepSeek-OCR resize fix, faster Metal, NvFP4 LM head, sliding-window crash fix.
- MLX-Swift tag-20260522: Gemma 4 ~24 percent faster, three Gemma 4 crashes fixed, Idefics3 prefill in one pass, Qwen3.5/Qwen3VL/GlmOcr M-RoPE stable.
- GGUF tool calling: Gemma 4, Qwen, LFM2 reliably invoke tools via OpenAI function-calling schema.
- Faster first reply from local GGUF: Metal kernels pre-compile at load.
- Novel Writer on small local models: outline parser recovers from missing tags, character names stay stable, stray markers no longer leak in.
- Banner on small local models showing context size and output cap.
- Reasoning models (GLM-5.1, DeepSeek, OpenAI o-series) now get budget for hidden reasoning plus full structured output.
- Chapter correction pass extends chapters under 70 percent or condenses over 130 percent.
- Token Usage charts now count thinking tokens for reasoning models.
- Duplicate bottom chat action bar removed; all actions in the top-right menu.

BUG FIXES
- Web search falls through Tavily, Brave, LangSearch when first returns nothing.
- macOS screens stuck in light-mode colors now follow Dark Mode immediately.
- Clear Chat on OpenAI Responses drops the server reference and wipes the per-chat workspace.
- Fixed Gemma4-E2B/E4B crash on 32 KB Metal threadgroup devices (incl. iPhone 16 Pro Max).
- Fixed GGUF metadata read crash on external drives or iCloud I/O errors.
- Fixed MLX long-prompt crash on iOS; prompts fed in 512-token chunks on iOS/Mac Catalyst.
- Fixed MLX vision models ignoring an image after a text-only reply.
- Fixed duplicate "Recovered From..." entries on cold launch.
- Custom assistant generation uses a fresh random seed (no more identical results).
- Verbose VoiceOver reads the full response instead of only "Response complete".
- Collapsed thinking preview no longer reads stray letters under VoiceOver.
- Bullet markers decorative; VoiceOver reads item text directly.
- LaTeX/math blocks expose a "Math expression" label for VoiceOver.