I love Ente Auth, but Ente (as a company/organization) does a somewhat poor job of calling out their non-photos apps in their branding and on their website. If you go to the "Download" button at the top of the page on this page about their LLM chat app, it downloads... their photo sharing application. If you click Sign Up, it takes you to a signup page with the browser title "Ente Photos" but the page text says "Private backups for your memories" with a picture of a lock - is that the Ente Auth signup, or the Ente Photos app signup?

A little bit of cleanup on their site to break out "Ente, our original photo sharing app" from the rest of their apps would do wonders, because I had to search around on the announcement to find the download for this app, which feels about like trying to find the popular Ente Auth app on their website

Any half capable engineer can vibe code this in a week. Who cares?

I like Ente, but isn't their core product a photos application? Its offshoots like this and 2FA feel incongruous.

As someone who saw this and was interested but also skeptical of this being low effort are there other open projects for running small models locally on android / iOS?

I've found https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile-ai but haven't tried anything in this space yet.

if you are into local LLMs check out apfel

https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel

Apple Ai on the command line

> People called us crazy.

Absolutely no one called them crazy.

There are literally 1000s of these types of apps. Why is this on the Front Page?

This is the most important part of local AI maturing not just better models, but better productization of on-device inference for normal people.

Smart move building on local models. The privacy argument is real but I think the bigger win is latency - no round trip to an API means you can do things like inline suggestions that would feel sluggish over the network.

How is this any different from Ollama plus Open Web UI?