Tag: on-device-ai

All the articles with the tag "on-device-ai".

• Why it exists · Booksum

  Why I built Booksum — and what chasing 'book tracker' taught me about App Store keywords

  13 Sep, 2026

  Booksum started as a fix for forgetting what I read: scan the page, keep the passage, summarise it on-device. Then it shipped under the wrong title. The numbers behind renaming 'Book Tracker & Scan' to 'Reading Journal', the intent traps ('summary' is a meeting-notes term, 'passage' is a health app), and why brand names got stripped from every non-US title.

• Why it exists · Murmur

  Why I built Murmur: voice notes with Whisper and a 0.6B LLM running entirely on the iPhone

  13 Sep, 2026

  Why a voice-note app should never upload audio, how WhisperKit and an MLX-hosted Qwen3 fit together on a phone, the seven-second budget per note, the crash that looked like memory pressure and wasn't, and what a one-time price means for an on-device app.