MLXChat
An iPhone and iPad app that runs Alibaba's Qwen3.5 models locally on the device using Apple's MLX framework, with optional tool use, image input and web search.
MLXChat is a SwiftUI application for running Qwen3.5 language models directly on an iPhone or iPad through Apple's MLX framework, rather than calling a cloud API. It defaults to a 4-bit quantized 4-billion-parameter model, with smaller and larger MLX variants available depending on the device, and supports streaming chat, an optional reasoning mode, image input for compatible models, and downloading additional models from Hugging Face with a progress indicator and automatic retry.
Optional tools let the model fetch a URL directly or search the web through the Brave Search API for current information. A separate macOS command-line harness lets the same prompts and tools be iterated on outside the phone interface. It requires Apple Silicon and a recent Xcode to build, and targets recent iOS releases.