Brae – Private AI Assistant
Haosheng Li Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Brae – Private AI Assistant is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Haosheng Li. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated August 20, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 33 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Aug 20
- 2026 · v1.4.1
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About Brae – Private AI Assistant
Brae is a local-first AI assistant for daily work and personal notes. It gives you a calm place to chat, capture ideas, review meetings, and keep useful context on your device. Use Brae to: - Chat with an on-device assistant for everyday questions and drafts. - Talk in Live mode, with typed fallback when speech is unavailable. - Use See World to ask about what the camera sees, powered by an on-device vision model when available. - Capture Meeting Notes, edit the transcript, and save it to your Library. - Review saved notes, call records, imported files, and generated artifacts in Library. - Keep Today focused on local follow-ups from your own notes and calls. - Manage local models in Model Setup, including downloads you explicitly choose. - Control privacy-sensitive features from Settings. Brae is built around local-first behavior. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. Your chats, transcripts, notes, files, memory, and settings stay on your device by default. Brae does not operate a Bubustudio backend that stores your content. Network use is explicit and user-initiated: - Model downloads happen only when you choose to download a local model from Hugging Face. - Location, nearby-place, destination, and route lookups use Apple MapKit and Core Location only when you ask. - Optional iCloud sync is off by default and, when enabled, uses your private CloudKit database. - Optional web search is off by default. When enabled, Brae sends the search query to DuckDuckGo’s keyless Instant Answer API so results can be returned.
What’s new
Version 1.4.1 · Updated August 20, 2026
Now supports iOS 18 and later, with compatibility updates and reliability improvements across chat, notes, and local model workflows.
App privacy
The developer, Haosheng Li, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Search History: Search History
Used for: App Functionality
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