Open WebUI is excellent on the desktop. On mobile it breaks down at the edges:
authentication behind a reverse proxy, streaming that drops when the app
backgrounds, getting a screenshot into a prompt, starting a chat from the home
screen. Conduit is a real Flutter app built to close that gap, and as of 4.0 it
works with or without an Open WebUI server at all.
Your chats live on your device first. Nothing routes through a backend the
maintainer operates.
Ways to connect
On first launch Conduit asks how you want to connect. Pick one, add the others
later, and skip any sign-in you don't need.
| | |
|---|
| Open WebUI | Your self-hosted server | Full feature set: chats, folders, notes, channels, workspace, tools, web search, image generation |
| LibreChat (beta) | Your self-hosted server | Synced chats, agents and model specs, web search, code, MCP tools with approvals, prompts, memories, shared links |
| Direct | OpenAI-compatible, Ollama, OpenRouter | Talk straight to a provider or a model on your own machine. No Open WebUI account required |
| Apple On-Device | Apple Intelligence | Run Apple's local model offline on eligible iOS 26 devices without an API key |
| Apple PCC | Apple Private Cloud Compute | Use Apple's private cloud model on eligible iOS 27 devices without an API key |
| Hermes | Your self-hosted agent | An agent that runs tools, asks before sensitive steps, and works on a schedule |
Direct connections cover OpenAI-compatible endpoints (Chat Completions or
Responses), LM Studio, Azure-style API versions, native Ollama, and first-party
OpenRouter. Bring an API key, or skip it for a local endpoint that doesn't want
one. Direct connections you already configured in Open WebUI come along
automatically. Keys and custom headers stay in platform secure storage.
Apple On-Device is an iOS-only Direct provider backed by Apple's local
SystemLanguageModel. It requires iOS 26 and Apple Intelligence, works offline,
and supports streaming, sampling controls, and JSON-schema responses with a 4K
context window. Image input, reasoning controls, and tool calling are not
available.
Apple Private Cloud Compute is an iOS-only Direct provider. It uses Apple's
Foundation Models framework, streams responses through the same chat path as
other Direct models, and requires iOS 27, Apple Intelligence availability, and
Apple's managed PCC entitlement. It supports image input, reasoning levels,
sampling and output limits, JSON-schema responses, live quota/context status,
and an optional on-device fallback for PCC network failures. Tool calling is
not enabled.
LibreChat (beta) signs in to your own LibreChat server, v0.8.8 or newer,
with a password, LDAP, two-step verification or single sign-on (Google sign-in
is not supported inside apps). Your chats sync to the device for offline reading
and search, and replies keep generating on the server while the app is closed.
Agents, model specs and the server's chat endpoints (not its Assistants ones)
appear in the model picker; web search, code, file search and MCP tools follow what your server and
role allow. A LibreChat account sits alongside Open WebUI accounts in Accounts.
Hermes Agent connects to your own Hermes server. You watch its tools work
live, approve sensitive steps before they run, and let scheduled agents run
while you sleep. Conversations and schedules get their own tab, and Conduit only
exposes the capabilities your server actually reports.
Screenshots
What you get
Chat that survives mobile
Token-by-token streaming over WebSocket. The transcript holds its place while a
response grows, pinned prompts stay put, and long conversations load without
stalling the UI. Search across conversations, organize with folders, pin what
matters, or start a temporary chat that leaves nothing behind.
Rendering that holds up on a phone
Native Flutter surfaces, not a web view wrapped in a shell:
- syntax-highlighted code blocks with copy and preview
- Mermaid diagrams rendered natively
- LaTeX and math
- expandable reasoning, tool-call, and code-execution sections
- inline citations, source cards, and follow-up suggestions
- Chart.js embeds
A real Workspace
Models, knowledge, prompts, tools, and skills as native screens with unified
settings navigation. Sections you don't have permission for simply don't appear.
Everything else
| Area | What's included |
|---|
| Files and media | Uploads, re-attaching previously uploaded server files, multimodal prompts, clipboard image paste, audio attachments |
| Notes | Autosave, pinning, AI-generated titles, AI enhancement, audio recording, all available offline |
| Channels | Threads and reactions, when your server enables them |
| Voice | Voice input with on-device or server speech recognition, plus a full voice-call mode |
| Home screen | Widgets on iOS and Android for new chat, mic, camera, photos, and clipboard; app quick actions; iOS App Intents and Shortcuts |
| Sharing | Share-sheet ingestion from other apps straight into a prompt |
| Terminal | Interactive sessions over WebSocket with a file browser, shown only when your server exposes it |
| Personalization | Light, dark, and system themes; five accent palettes; adaptive Material and Cupertino UI; haptics |
| Languages | 14 locales: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Russian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Czech, Slovak, Polish |
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