SmolChat

Shubham Panchal

About this app

SmolChat allows you to download and run popular LLMs on your Android device, locally, without needing an internet connection. Customize the model used for each chat, tune settings like temperature and min-p, and pin your favourite chats on the home-screen with shortcuts.

Ratings and reviews

overall I think a good app that allows you to play with any gguf file from hugging face with minimal fuss. I was a bit disappointed to see that it doesn't handle reasoning models quite as well as I had hoped, in that it displays reasoning/thinking tokens as if they were normal tokens. So the thinking is indistinguishable from the response which is unhelpful.

good app everything works perfectly except for if I delete the last chat the app crashed and won't open until I redownload it edit:it's been fixed since I last used the app

This is a standalone app that works perfectly on low RAM devices. You can import many models, but I noticed one thing: it cannot run very small models like (gpt-2 small). Also, copying text in the app might be a bit tricky, but overall the app is good. My suggestion is to have a separate button to copy the model code written in it so that only the code can be copied 😊 People say the app crashes - I checked below, but I tried many large models and they didn't crash.

What’s new

- Sync with upstream llama.cpp brings in support for Gemma 4 models

- 'copy' and 'share' buttons below a message, now, do not copy the thinking contents of the model

- Fix a bug where the app crashes when trying to show a list of available models from HuggingFace in the absence of an internet connection