Enclave Reviews

In the previous version, it was easy to substitute the model. Now with the recent update, it is not clear where the model is stored and/or how to change it. Why not keep it user friendly and allow people to easily swap the model in the resource folder? Will gladly change the rating to 5 stars if this issue is addressed.

I really enjoy Enclave . The one thing I miss is a history of chat interactions such that one can go back to past conversations.
Also, such a history should be (optionally) be synced via iCloud, allowing one to reference (or continue) chats on all of one’s personal devices.
Otherwise, splendid!

I prompted it to write this review ;)

this app is a solid AI-powered chat app that shines in its offline capabilities, allowing you to store and access your conversations even without an internet connection. The locally stored AI chat models are robust and reliable, making it a great choice for general tasks and everyday conversations. Enclave is relatively fast, with seamless interactions that won't slow you down. One notable feature is the use of Meta Llama 3.2-1B, which provides a robust and accurate language understanding. Overall, this app is a reliable and efficient app that is well-suited for users who need a convenient and effective AI-powered chat experience.

Keeps getting better and better. I was hoping it was paid so I can reward this creator. It’s exactly was I wanted.

And the fact it has a macOS app is fire ✨🔥

Thank you for your work. Really.

Works great! Perhaps you could add a thinking mode for reasoning models so that the user only see the thinking process when they want to.

Enclave is great. It runs smoothly on my iPhone SE 2020, which is impressive since other local AI apps don't perform as well. Additionally, I appreciate that it does not collect any user data.

very well put together product. I’ve been looking for a nice app to run LLM’s locally on ios for a while and this is by far the best I’ve run into.

I was kinda skeptical about how good it actually worked. Works first good though. Comes with one ai program installed, but has the option to download others.

If you encounter that you can't have a continuous conversation in the integrated Siri, you need to wake up again every time! And it would be better if the local loading large model could be added!

To start off, I’d like to say a phenomenal job to the developer! There are a few great local LLM apps or remote apps that connect to Ollama, but none seem to be as carefully designed as this app. You can tell by how curated the recommended models are and the consistency of app updates that the developer seems to deeply care about efficiency, user experience, and user input. The models available are pretty efficient and good in functionality. I highly recommend Enclave if you are into running offline models locally, especially on newer and more powerful devices that can leverage their NPUs to provide a robust experience.

I have so many great things to talk about I’m not sure if I can talk about them all! I love that it integrates with your phone, it works faster than other apps, you can make custom prompts, and it even works on my slow iPhone 12 mini. Thanks for making this!

This is exactly and more than what i was looking for, from the functionality, features, ui, everything is near perfect. Only thing that i would suggest would be adding the feature to delete past conversations.

It is already intuitive and convenient. Features are well thought-through and implemented. If you want a local, private AI with features, this is the best app in Enclave Store for this. Once the feature to drop-and-add model files (gguf files) is implemented, Enclave will be golden! Some other people are selling their apps for $9.99 that are not even close to Enclave. I would gladly support the developer, maybe make it as an in-app purchase or a one-time price.

I’ve tried this one and several others, even paying for another, and this is by far the best one I’ve tried. I haven’t gotten any weird errors using this one like I have on a lot of the other apps. This is straightforward and makes downloading another model simple and easy. My favorite model to use on this is Gemma 2 2b, as it works quite well with everything. Please keep up the great work and I’ll probably always keep this on my phone.

I love Enclave so much, I have always wanted an efficient local AI to be able to run on my phone or portable device. Enclave runs amazing, I love the conversational feature. And the ability to choose between different low powered models that are the best out there, he is amazing. Out of everything the biggest deal for me is being able to integrate this with shortcuts, honestly has changed my life and I’ve made so many shortcuts and automations incorporating AI into them!! I love Enclave so much, and especially the fact that it’s free. Developers keep up the amazing work!!

It runs llama 3.2 3B instruct, qwen 2.5 coder 3B and smollm2 1.7B (all in a q4_k_m) effortlessly. Just hit the ‘+’ sign and download hugging face ggufs.

Hopefully future support for mlx will be added.

I started playing with smaller models on my Intel mbp (ollama and Chatbox), which was fine. Slow, due to CPU processing.

I found this while looking for local llm options for the iPhone (16 Pro) and it runs the same models much faster.

Gemma2.2, llama 3.2 3B, Smollm2 1.7B and qwen coder 2.5 3B.

You will be limited somewhat on the variety of options with gguf only options, but most of the 3B and lower models have gguf versions that others have converted and error corrected.

I used models from both Bartowski and Unsloth.

Phi 4 did not work.

Excellent work from a solo developer. I’ve tipped him within Enclave , because this is exactly what I was looking for and I want to support small developers that don’t use a subscription model.

The dev really cares about Enclave, and that’s super important for something like this. I love it, and hope to see it flourish into something amazing.