On-device AI is taking center stage for Mac and iOS, with a wave of posts spotlighting offline, privacy-first apps. The line-up centers on Text Realms—an offline storytelling game that runs on-device using Apple Intelligence.
Text Realms crafts dynamic stories entirely offline. No servers, no accounts, and everything runs on your iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence. [1]
AIDente logs calories with text, voice, or photos and keeps data private on-device. It’s free to download with optional subscriptions (weekly and yearly plans), shown as $1.99/week and $19.99/year. [2]
FastCal AI lets you log meals in natural language—type "breakfast was eggs and toast"—and it calculates calories, with photo logging as an option. [3]
TalkText for macOS lets you write with your voice anywhere you type, outputting well-written text and accepting voice commands to edit highlighted sections. [4]
Enigma X is a free encryption keyboard that generates a private key, shares it with your correspondent, and uses a emoji cipher to send encrypted text, voice, or media. [5]
These on-device, privacy-forward apps hint at a future where AI is powerful yet private on iPhone and Mac. Keep an eye on how developers expand offline capabilities and local processing next.
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[FREE] I built a fully offline AI text-adventure game using on-device Apple Intelligence
New iOS app Text Realms runs offline on-device AI for dynamic, text-adventure stories; seeking feedback on pacing and worlds ideas.
View sourceWe built AIDente – an AI calorie tracker that works with text, voice, and photos
Introduces AIDente, an iOS AI calorie tracker with text, voice, and photo input; free plus subscription; mentions AlDente confusion.
View sourcejust made this chatgpt like app for tracking your calories + intermittent fasting
iOS FastCal AI enables natural language calorie entries; photo input option; released on the App Store; seeking feedback.
View sourceI built TalkText for macOS last year. Simply put it lets you “write with your voice” anywhere you can type on your Mac.
TalkText macOS review discusses STT pricing, local vs cloud models for Mac apps, and compares Spokenly, MacWhisper, VoiceInk, Ito.ai.
View sourceThe Enigma X Encryption Keyboard - the 🔑 for your privacy.
Post discusses Enigma X iOS encryption app, pricing debates, alternatives like Signal, user feedback, peer review, privacy focus, curiosity, ongoing.
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