Pinku
Private AI chat that runs offline on your iPhone and Mac
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Pinku runs open models (Llama, Qwen, Gemma) on your iPhone, iPad and Mac with Apple's MLX. Download a model once and chat offline, even in airplane mode. No account, no server: your chats never leave your device. Free to start.
PH · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 70 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: local ai model runners and clients · 110 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Privacy
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
Yes Running open-weight models on-device with Apple's MLX has public sample code and model distribution is just downloading weights, so a chat app is a manageable build with AI assistance.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 339 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 340 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 360 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Kynora AI · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Outmake · ph · 2026-10-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Run AI chat, image gen, vision, and voice offline on your Mac · hn · 2026-06-29 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- KernelAI · ph · 2026-10-10 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- GlassChat · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Jack AI · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- TanjiroAI · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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