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Open source on-device AI apps (and counting), no cloud, works offline

ZETIC.ai released an open-source catalog of on-device AI apps that run entirely on a phone's NPU without cloud connectivity, eliminating compliance costs and per-token fees. The collection includes finished apps for chat, translation, vision, health, voice, and forecasting, all operating offline with zero marginal cost.

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Open source on-device AI apps (and counting), no cloud, works offline
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No compliance wall Β· $0 at any scale Β· Data never leaves the device Β· Works offline

πŸ’¬ Chat Β· 🌐 Translate Β· πŸ‘οΈ Vision Β· ❀️ Health Β· πŸŽ™οΈ Voice Β· πŸ“ˆ Forecasting

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Melange, the on-device NPU runtime

Every app here runs the model on the phone itself. Nothing goes to a server. That one fact rewrites the economics:

  • πŸ›‘οΈ No compliance wall. No user data in the cloud means no GDPR, HIPAA, or data-residency blocker between you and launch. Put AI into health, finance, and enterprise products, and actually charge for it. - πŸ’Έ $0 marginal cost. No per-token bill, no inference servers. Your margins hold as you scale from 1 to 10 million users. - πŸ”’ Private by design. Nothing leaves the device, so there is no cloud dataset to breach, leak, or get audited over. - ⚑ Instant and offline. Runs on the phone's NPU with no network round-trip, on a plane, a subway, or a factory floor with no signal.

And these are not snippets. Every folder is a finished app you clone and run on a real device today.

Pick any app, clone, and run it on a real device. No ML setup, no model conversion, no C++.

git clone https://github.com/zetic-ai/awesome-on-device-ai-apps.git
cd awesome-on-device-ai-apps

./scripts/adapt_mlange_key.sh

Auto-generated from each app's

meta.json

. Runpython3 scripts/generate_catalog.py

after adding one.

Jump to: πŸ’¬ Language & Text Β· πŸ‘οΈ Vision Β· ❀️ Health & Wellbeing Β· πŸ”Š Audio Β· πŸ“ˆ Forecasting

App What it does Model Platforms Try it
Brew AI Notes

Gemma-4-E2B

iOS

Model β†—CherryPadLFM2.5-350M

Android

iOS

Model β†—Grammar FixerT5-base

Android

iOS

Model β†—HY-MT TranslatorTencent HY-MT

Android

iOS

Model β†—MedASRMedASR

Android

Model β†—Offline TranslatorTencent HY-MT

Android

iOS

Model β†—PromptGuardLlama Prompt Guard 2

iOS

Model β†—Qwen3 ChatQwen3-4B

Android

iOS

Model β†—SayRightCitrinet-256 (phoneme CTC)

Flutter

Model β†—Text Anonymizertanaos-anonymizer-v1

Android

iOS

Model β†—VoxScribepyannote + Whisper

Flutter

Model β†—Whisper ASRWhisper Tiny

Android

iOS

Model β†—| App | What it does | Model | Platforms | Try it | |---|---|---|---|---| Emotion Recognition |

Emo-AffectNet

Android

iOS

Model β†—Face DetectionBlazeFace

Android

iOS

Model β†—Face LandmarkerMediaPipe

Android

iOS

Model β†—GlyphGoPP-OCRv5 (DBNet + SVTR)

Flutter

Model β†—PlateHawkYOLOv8n

Flutter

Model β†—RedactLensPP-OCRv5 (DBNet + CRNN)

Flutter

Model β†—ShelfSenseYOLO11s (SKU-110K)

Flutter

Model β†—SiteGuardYOLOv8s (PPE)

Flutter

Model β†—SkyScoutYOLOv8s (VisDrone)

Flutter

Model β†—YOLO26YOLO26

Android

iOS

Model β†—YOLOv26-SegYOLOv26-Seg Nano

Android

Model β†—YOLOv8YOLOv8n

Android

iOS

Model β†—| App | What it does | Model | Platforms | Try it | |---|---|---|---|---| Camera Vitals |

EfficientPhys-rPPG

Android

iOS

Model β†—FundusGateMobileNetV2

Flutter

Model β†—GradeVueMobileNetV2

Flutter

Model β†—OraLensYOLO11n

Flutter

Model β†—Skin ClassifierSkin-Cancer ViT

Android

iOS

Model β†—Voice Biomarkerwav2vec2 Β· YAMNet

Android

iOS

Model β†—Wellbeing Screenerwav2vec2 Β· Emo-AffectNet

Android

iOS

Model β†—| App | What it does | Model | Platforms | Try it | |---|---|---|---|---| NeuTTS Nano |

NeuTTS Nano

iOS

Model β†—Qwen TTSQwen3-TTS-0.6B

iOS

Model β†—YamNetYAMNet

Android

iOS

Model β†—| App | What it does | Model | Platforms | Try it | |---|---|---|---|---| Chronos Forecast |

Chronos-Bolt

Android

iOS

Model β†—SentryWaveChronos-Bolt-tiny

Flutter

Model β†—Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor will vibe-code you a web app in minutes. Ask them for an app that runs a model on the phone's NPU and they stall, because on-device deployment is not something they know how to do.

That is the gap Melange fills, and it is the easiest way in the world to put AI on-device today.

Every app in this repo was built the same way: generate the integration code with Melange, paste it in, done. Copy a use case from here and the on-device feature drops straight into your app, the same vibe-coding loop you already use.

Dropping it into an existing project is about 3 lines:

Android, in build.gradle.kts

:

dependencies { implementation("com.zeticai.mlange:mlange:+") }
val model = ZeticMLangeModel(context = this, tokenKey = "YOUR_KEY", modelName = "Team_ZETIC/YOLO26")
val outputs = model.run(inputs)   // NPU-accelerated, on-device

iOS, via Swift Package Manager β†’ https://github.com/zetic-ai/ZeticMLangeiOS.git

:

let model = try ZeticMLangeModel(tokenKey: "YOUR_KEY", name: "Team_ZETIC/YOLO26", version: 1)
let outputs = try model.run(inputs: inputs)

Bring your own model: upload it to Melange, it converts and NPU-optimizes automatically, then hands you back a phone-ready build in about an hour, not months of hardware tuning.

This gallery grows by contribution, and the bar is one question: would a stranger clone this and actually use it?

  • Drop your app in apps/<YourApp>/

withAndroid/

and/oriOS/

  • Add a meta.json

(see any existing app) and aREADME.md

  • Run python3 scripts/generate_catalog.py

to add it to the catalog - Prove it runs on a real device (demo GIF in the PR)

Full guide β†’ ** CONTRIBUTING.md**. Questions β†’

Discord.

Built by ZETIC Β· Powered by Melange

If a phone-native AI app made you go "wait, that runs offline?", then ⭐ star it. It's how the next dev finds it.

App source is Apache 2.0: use it commercially or privately, however you like. The Melange SDK itself is a proprietary library under the ZETIC Terms of Service.

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