Google AI Edge Gallery

What if your phone could run a ChatGPT-style assistant with no internet and no data leaving the device? This free app from Google does exactly that.

⭐ 25,000+ GitHub stars · Apache License 2.0 · Last checked 2026-10-25

What it does

AI Edge Gallery is a free, open-source app from Google that downloads open AI models (like the Gemma family) onto your phone or Mac and runs them locally. Once a model is downloaded, your prompts, photos and recordings are processed on the device itself, so it keeps working in airplane mode and nothing is sent to a cloud server.

5 key features

• Offline AI chat: Multi-turn conversations with a local model, plus an optional Thinking Mode that shows the step-by-step reasoning (on supported models such as Gemma 4).
• Ask Image: Point the camera or pick a photo and ask questions about it: identify objects, describe a scene, or work through a visual puzzle.
• Audio Scribe: Turn voice recordings into text and translate them, all on the device.
• Search your photos and videos in plain English: Instant Media Search and Video Moment Finder let you type what you are looking for and jump to the matching photo or video moment.
• Try and compare models: Download models from a list or load your own, test prompts in Prompt Lab, and benchmark how fast each one runs on your hardware.

Who it is for

• Privacy-minded people who want AI without sending data to the cloud
• Travellers and anyone with patchy internet
• Curious users who want to see what phones can do with AI today
• Developers testing on-device models

How to try it

Android 12+ and iOS 17+; a macOS download is also offered. Models download once, then run offline.

License and source

Released under the Apache License 2.0. Latest release at last check: 1.0.20 (Oct 2026). Source code: github.com/google-ai-edge/gallery

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