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Noema, in other people's words.

Editorial coverage, accessibility testing, and hands-on reports from people using Noema on their own devices.

I paired a local LLM with Obsidian on my phone, and it's the productivity boost I didn't expect

Nolen Jonker · August 1, 2026

A hands-on account of using Noema as a private, on-device bridge to an Obsidian vault, with document ingestion, cited retrieval, local models, and workflow tools.

“it was the thing that made me switch over.”

AppleVisHands-on VoiceOver accessibility reviewTesting found Noema mostly accessible and highlighted its breadth among apps that run language models locally.Hands-on accessibility testing LocalLLaMALocal AI and endpoint with iOS NoemaAIA user who disclosed no relationship to Noema compared iOS local and remote AI clients and selected Noema as their preferred option.Independent community review LocalLLaMAM5 iPad runs an 8B Q4 modelAn independent user reported roughly 23 tokens per second from an 8B Q4 model on a 12 GB M5 iPad using Noema.Device test · October 23, 2025 Local AI NewsNoema Atlas connects and exchanges AI files peer to peerA third-party overview of Noema Atlas, its peer-to-peer model-sharing design, and file verification approach.Ecosystem coverage · July 14, 2026

Noema in 30 seconds

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What it is

A free, open-source AI assistant and LLM runner

Built for private, capable work on hardware people already own.

Platforms

iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro

Native experiences across Apple platforms.

Price

Free

No subscription and no feature tier inside the personal app.

Privacy model

Core inference and files can remain on-device

Web search and remote model endpoints are optional and user-controlled.

First release

September 19, 2025

Current release

Noema 3.7 - August 8, 2026

Adds offline Python code execution, bundled scientific packages, inline Matplotlib figures, native Quick Charts, confined execution, and smoother conversations.

Source code

github.com/noemaai-labs/noema-ios

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The Apple device becomes the AI computer

Noema runs compatible language models across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro, bringing private AI to the devices people use every day.

A compact model built for local work

Noema 2B is a two-billion-parameter, Apache 2.0 model built on Qwen3.5-2B and tuned for capable, token-efficient use on personal hardware.

Cloud access is a choice, not a requirement

Core inference and documents can stay local and work offline. Search and remote endpoints remain available when a user deliberately chooses them.

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Noema is a free, open-source AI assistant for Apple devices that can run language models, documents, and tools locally, privately, and offline.

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Noema is a free, open-source AI assistant for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. It runs compatible language models and works with documents and tools directly on-device, so private work can remain local and available offline. Optional web search and remote endpoints are always user-controlled.

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Noema is a free, open-source AI assistant built for Apple devices. People can download and run compatible language models directly on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro, then use them with documents, voice, images, and tools. Core inference can remain on-device and work offline, keeping private prompts and files on hardware the user controls. Noema also supports optional web search and remote model endpoints when users choose to connect them. The project includes Noema 2B, a compact model designed for on-device use, and an open ecosystem spanning Noema Search, Atlas, and governed deployments through Noema Teams.

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