Guides
Local AI guides
These guides show how to run an open model on a phone or computer you own. Loci is the path with nothing to set up, on iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac and Windows. Ollama and LM Studio are the path when you want Linux, a server, or control of every setting. A local model will not match the largest cloud models.
What changed. Each guide now carries its own date, and the openings answer the question instead of repeating the page summary.
These sit next to the comparisons, which put Loci next to other apps.
- GGUF or MLX?
What the two model choices mean, how they use your Mac, and what happens when you switch.
- Run an LLM locally
What you need on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android, and how to set it up.
- Best local LLMs
Gemma, Qwen and gpt-oss by the memory you have, with measured speeds.
- Run ChatGPT-style AI locally
You cannot download ChatGPT. Here is how to run a similar model on your device.