Aside: On-Device AI Chat
Dinh Quang Trung Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Aside: On-Device AI Chat is a paid Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Dinh Quang Trung. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated August 7, 2026.
- Price
- 9.99 USD
- on the App Store
- Size
- 5 MB
- Age 9+
- Updated
- Aug 7
- 2026 · v1.2
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About Aside: On-Device AI Chat
Aside is a private, on-device AI chat for iPhone. It runs entirely on your phone using Apple Intelligence — your conversations never leave the device. No account. No cloud. No telemetry. Works in airplane mode. WHY ASIDE For the questions you wouldn't post to a server. Health. Legal drafts. Personal journal. Half-formed ideas. Aside answers, and forgets nothing — because it never had a reason to remember anywhere but on your phone. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Chat in clean Markdown — bold, lists, headings, code blocks • Attach photos — on-device Vision extracts text and context first • Dictate with the mic — speech recognition is local too • Save every conversation on-device, organized in a clean sidebar • Search across every message you've ever written • Share or copy any chat as Markdown • Long-press a message to copy, regenerate, or delete • Pick a persona (concise, friendly tutor, brutally honest, code-focused — or write your own) • Adjust text size, toggle Markdown rendering, control haptics 100% PRIVATE Aside makes zero outbound network requests during a chat. Verify with a packet sniffer. The model lives on your iPhone's Neural Engine; the conversation stays where it started. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone 15 Pro or later, OR iPhone 16 / 17 (any model) • iOS 26 or later • Apple Intelligence enabled in Settings ONE-TIME PURCHASE $9.99. No subscription. No in-app purchase. No upsell.
What’s new
Version 1.2 · Updated August 7, 2026
What's new in 1.2: - Genmoji in the composer. Tap the new button to generate any emoji you can describe — playful, expressive, on-device. - Smaller fixes and polish.
App privacy
The developer, Dinh Quang Trung, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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