Ask your notes
Question your own notes, PDFs and voice transcripts. The search runs on-device — documents never leave your phone.
A real AI model, running entirely on your phone.
No account. No sign-up. No internet required — and nothing ever uploaded. Your suite, your AI, bounded only by what you choose to share.
Free forever · No account · Works offline
Why Volery exists
Everyone deserves an assistant that knows you, learns from you, and never sells you out.
Most AI chat apps send every message to a company server. Volery doesn’t. The assistant runs locally, so it works in airplane mode, costs nothing, and keeps your conversations completely private. Volery is a gift — your machine is your sovereignty.
Two ways to think
Chat with Volery — a real language model running entirely on your device. Download it once and it’s yours, forever, no strings.
Plug in your own key for OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Groq, Gemini — or any endpoint you self-host. You pay your provider; we take no cut.
Capable, not creepy
Real abilities, all opt-in and off by default — you choose exactly what each message may touch.
Question your own notes, PDFs and voice transcripts. The search runs on-device — documents never leave your phone.
Talk, and hear it reply. Speech-to-text runs on-device with Whisper — your voice never leaves the phone.
Wikipedia, web search, weather, calendar, timers, clipboard — enabled per message, off until you say so.
Point the Cloud lane at any MCP server — yours or hosted. Volery discovers its tools and calls them, under your controls.
No analytics. No ads. No tracking. No developer servers. Conversations live on your phone — export or delete anytime.
Free forever, no subscription, no paywall. Volery is given, not sold — and it stays that way.
Where your words go
You type. The on-device model reads it and answers — right here, in memory, on the hardware in your hand.
Switch to Cloud with your own key, and the message goes straight to the provider you picked. Never through us.
there is no step in the middle — no Volery server ever sees your data
What changed
The list of downloadable on-device models is now fetched from our server instead of being compiled into the app, so a new model can be listed without shipping a release. The built-in list stays in the APK as the offline floor - if the fetch, the parse or the schema version fails, the app falls back to it and is never left with nothing. Each entry now says whether it comes from our own mirror or from HuggingFace, and flags any model whose checksum is not published. The automatic first-run pick is still restricted to mirrored, sha256-verified models, which is the constraint ADR VOL-008 exists to hold.
The welcome tour introduced a Dove lane to people whose build does not have one. It listed the three lanes by hand while the app's real lane list has been gated on the build all along, so the public edition described itself wrongly to every new user. The tour now renders the actual lane list, and Settings no longer offers a colour and an avatar for a lane that is not installed. Also: the in-app "What's new" card is working again - it is gated on an exact version match and had been left pointing at 0.77.1, so it silently showed nothing for fifteen releases. Owner build is unchanged in behaviour; it still has all three lanes.
Lighter on-device models no longer misfire on image turns. Asking a small model to translate a screenshot could set a timer instead, because the tool-picking step was never told an image was attached. It is told now, no-tool leads the options, and a light model is not offered actions like alarms or messages while it is choosing blind. Settings also says how many tools your loaded model actually drives, instead of one number for every model.
Guides have their own section now. Setup guide, Replay welcome tour and Help & handbook were buried inside the App updates card as three mismatched buttons, one of which wrapped mid-word. They are now plain rows under Guides & help - and they finally appear in the public build, where all three used to be invisible.
A proper first run. Finishing the welcome tour now drops you into chat and runs the quick tour of the chat straight after, instead of ending at a blank screen. Skipping still skips everything.
The welcome tour highlights the right things again - every spotlight was sitting one row below its target. Start chatting at the end of the Setup guide now opens the chat instead of returning to Settings.
Start chatting now opens the chat. Replaying the welcome tour from Settings used to drop you back in Settings when you tapped it. Also carries the collapsed sections and the split Cloud lane from 1.0.8.
Every section in Settings now starts collapsed, so each tab opens as a short scannable list instead of a wall. The Cloud lane was one long uncollapsible card holding profile, provider, connection, tuning and budget together - it is now Profile, Provider and Connection as separate sections, with the Advanced fold still inside Connection. Status cards (This device, Preview) are unchanged.
Settings rework. Four tabs instead of five - Assistant, Models, Tools, App. Local and Cloud are not merged: they are two boxes under the tab row on Models, each opening its own full page with everything it had before. The Got it popups are gone - help now sits under each section heading with a Learn more link. Tool reliability data added but not yet shown in the UI.
Headers no longer collide with the status bar. Bumping to Android 16 in 1.0.4 silently removed the app's edge-to-edge opt-out, so Notes and chat drew behind the clock; every screen now lays out correctly around the status bar, navigation bar, cutout and keyboard. Also retires the last of the old internal names - a few screens still said Scout and Sage instead of Local and Cloud, and one Cloud message pointed at a Settings tab that no longer exists.
Showing the 10 most recent of 41 releases. The full history is on GitHub.