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// 112d agoPRODUCT UPDATE
Off Grid adds on-device Gemma 4 support
Off Grid, the open-source offline-first mobile AI app, shipped support for Gemma 4 E2B and E4B edge variants on Android, with iOS still coming soon. The update keeps inference fully on-device, combining long-context chat, camera-based vision, Whisper speech-to-text, Stable Diffusion image generation, and tool calling in one app. The maker says it runs on the phone’s NPU/CPU with no server or Python setup and reports roughly 15–30 tok/s on Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Apple A17 Pro devices.
// ANALYSIS
This is a strong mobile AI update because it turns Gemma 4 into something people can actually carry and use offline, not just benchmark on a laptop.
- –The main differentiator is practical integration: chat, vision, audio, image generation, and tools in one phone app.
- –The 128K context window matters more on mobile than on desktop because it makes long docs and code workflows feasible without a cloud round-trip.
- –The claim that E2B fits in under 1.5GB RAM is the most impressive part, but real-world performance will still vary a lot by device thermals and memory bandwidth.
- –The launch is credible for the open-source crowd because both the model and app licensing are permissive, but the “open all the way down” framing is still about open weights, not fully open model training data.
// TAGS
off-gridon-device-aimobile-aigemma-4offline-firstandroidiosopen-sourcemultimodalvisionwhisperstable-diffusiontool-calling
DISCOVERED
112d ago
2026-04-09
PUBLISHED
112d ago
2026-04-09
RELEVANCE
8/ 10
AUTHOR
CamusCave