How to Switch Between Local and Remote LLMs on Your Phone (Without Two Apps or Two Workflows)

There are two ways to run AI on your phone in 2026. Both are good. But until now, you had to pick one. Option one: run a small model directly on your phone. Completely offline, completely private, works on airplane mode. The tradeoff is that a 3B model running on mobile hardware cannot match a 9B or 70B model running on a desktop GPU. You get privacy and portability, but you give up depth. Option two: connect to a model running on your PC. Something like Ollama or LM Studio serving Qwen 3.5 9B on your Mac. The quality is dramatically better. But you need to be on the same network as your computer. Step outside, lose WiFi, and you lose your AI. The thing nobody has built until now is a single app that does both and switches between them intelligently. That is what we built into Off Grid . The problem with picking one If you only run on-device models, you hit a ceiling. Qwen 3.5 2B on your phone is useful for quick answers, summarization, and simple tasks. But ask it to analyze a long do