It's out
Nashi, the first app in the trulyoffline family, is live on the App Store today.
Download Nashi on the App Store →
One-time purchase. No subscription. No account. No telemetry.
What Nashi is
Nashi is a private AI chatbot that runs large language models directly on your iPhone or iPad. Pick a model, download it once, and chat: on a flight, in a tunnel, in the middle of nowhere. The model lives on your device. Your conversations never leave it.
There's no sign-up. No email. No "anonymous usage data." The app doesn't have your data because there's nowhere for it to go.
Why it matters
Every mainstream AI assistant sends what you type to someone else's computer. That's a trade people make to get capable models, and it's a trade that makes sense for some tasks. But it's not the only shape an AI app can take.
Modern phones are quietly powerful. They can run capable open-source language models locally, without a round-trip to a data center. Nashi leans into that: smaller, local models doing useful work, with privacy as an architectural property rather than a policy document.
It won't replace a frontier cloud model for every task. But it will draft an email in airplane mode, summarize a note in a subway, or help you think through something at 2 a.m. without a single packet leaving your device.
What you get
- Runs fully on-device. No network calls for inference.
- Choose your model. Smaller ones for speed, larger ones for depth.
- Zero analytics. Zero tracking. The App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected" because none is.
- Works identically online or offline.
- One-time purchase. Updates are free for the lifetime of the app.
What's next
ScribeKit, an offline voice transcription app for people whose recordings aren't theirs to share, is close behind. Same principles: on-device, no cloud, no account.
After that, a small family of utility apps built the same way. QR, a few others. Each one a bet that people will pay a fair price for software that actually respects them.
Thanks
If you're reading this, you're early. Thank you. If you try Nashi and have thoughts, bug reports, or model requests, write to me directly. The email in the app is a real inbox.
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