Modem AI
Joe Mayo Utilities iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
Modem AI is a free Utilities app for iPhone and iPad by Joe Mayo. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated October 5, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 42 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Oct 5
- 2026 · v2.0
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About Modem AI
Modem AI is a private assistant for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It runs a language model on your device, so your conversations stay there. There is no account, and your prompts stay on the device rather than going to a cloud chatbot. The first launch downloads Phi-3-mini, about 2.7 GB. After that, you can chat without a connection. Replies can take longer than a cloud service. That is the trade for keeping the conversation on the device. The model needs about 4 GB of available memory. What you can do • Chat in natural language, including answers with lists and code • Dictate a message with on-device speech recognition. Audio stays on the device • Write a system message, and set temperature, top-p, and maximum response length • Choose light, dark, or system appearance • Copy a reply, start over, or clear history Privacy Your prompts and replies stay on the device. Modem AI does not read them. If you send feedback or report a reply, only what you choose to submit is shared. The app may send anonymous performance statistics, such as whether a feature succeeded. Those statistics do not include your conversations.
What’s new
Version 2.0 · Updated October 5, 2026
Welcome to Modem AI 2.0 for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. • Chat with Phi-3 on your device. Prompts and replies stay there. • Download the model once, about 2.7 GB, then chat without a connection. • Dictate messages with on-device speech recognition. Audio stays on the device. • Set a system message, temperature, top-p, and response length. • Choose light, dark, or system appearance.
App privacy
The developer, Joe Mayo, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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