Russet: Private on-device AI App - App Store

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Private, powerful, personal

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Russet enables private on-device AI on iPhone and iPad, powered by the latest and greatest models. By default, chats run fully on-device with no accounts, no ads, and no tracking of messages. Russet's models are optimized for Apple hardware and downloadable, so they work completely offline. All in one clean, native interface designed for privacy, focus, and flow. Features • Flexible chats: Choose models, adjust response style, branch or lock chats, and analyze PDFs and images. • Text-to-speech: Import speeches generated in custom voices from Russet for Mac. • Agent: Work with health data, schedules, contacts, and files through system-aware automation. • Flow: Summarize, rewrite, debate, label, and translate text, even offline. • Intelligent Templates: Get instant briefings powered by your calendar. • Interactive stories: Create and explore text-based adventures in Agent > Game. • Offline-ready: Works without an internet connection. • Multilingual: Supports 13 written and spoken languages.

- Apple Foundation Model (Apple Intelligence) and several MLX models now supports tool-calling in Chat. You can now simply ask Russet to list today's or tomorrow's schedule directly in Chat instead of going through Agent. - Introducing Persona: Tune your response style with 7 presets, including Russet, Study Buddy, and Devil’s Advocate. Set your default Persona in Settings > Chat > Persona. Or, better yet, create your own! - Benchmark downloaded MLX models in Settings > Developer > Benchmark and save results as Markdown. - Say hello to the latest and greatest Qwen3.5 Small Model Series (SMS) now live on Russet. Qwen3.5 brings multimodal chats, enabling image-to-text for the first time on Russet for iPhone and iPad! Download from Settings and spin up a new Chat to try. - Expanded supported attachment types in chat for all on-device models. Plus new agentic tools thanks to more supported attachment types: Summarize Document and Explain Code.

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Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
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    Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
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