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ali_chherawalla

53 karma · joined February 14, 2026

trying to democratize intelligence with local ai
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ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
I agree. I mean mobile devices have only been getting more and more powerful.
ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
I actually think you should give it a spin. IMO you don't need claude level performance for a lot of day to day tasks. Qwen3 8B, or even 4B quantized is actually quite good. Take a look at it. You can offload to the GPU as well so it should really help with speed. Theres a setting for it
ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
LM Studio does it well. Along with being a system integrator for SD, and text models I've tried to create a very good chat experience. So theres some sauce over there with Prompt enhancements, Auto detection of images, English Transcription suppor, etc
ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
hey, just pushed a fix for it here: https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile/releases/t...

Thanks for spotting and reporting this.

ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
I've added a section for recommended models. So basically you can chose from there.

I'd recommend going for any quantized 1B parameter model. So you can look at llama 3.2 1B, gemma3 1B, qwen3 VL 2B (if you'd like vision)

Appreciate the kind words!

ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
wow. thank you
ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
sorry about that one. I'm taking a look and fixing it right away
ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
ok, let me figure that one out.
ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
thank you!
ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
yup, just took a look at that and fixed it. My bad!
ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
yeah thats right. for now for iOS you'll actually have to pod install etc.

Thanks for pointing this out

ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
LM Studio solves for it pretty well I think. It doesn't do image gen etc though
ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
Thank you!
ali_chherawalla··on Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
hey, yes. thanks just pushed that fix out
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