How to Use LM Studio From Your Android Phone in 2026 (Your Desktop AI in Your Pocket)

LM Studio does not have a mobile app. If you want to use the models running on your desktop from your Android phone, the official answer is: you cannot. The unofficial answer used to be: set up a reverse proxy, configure your network, install a separate Ollama-compatible client app, and hope everything stays connected. The actual answer now: Off Grid auto-discovers LM Studio on your network and lets you use it from your Android phone in about sixty seconds. How to set it up On your computer Open LM Studio. Developer tab. Load a model. Start the server. Check "Serve on Local Network." Done. If you are not sure which model to run, Qwen 3.5 9B is the recommendation for machines with 16GB+ RAM. It was released March 2026, outperforms OpenAI's GPT-OSS-120B on multiple benchmarks, and runs at 30-50 tokens per second on Apple Silicon. On a Windows PC with an NVIDIA GPU, it is even faster. On your Android phone Install Off Grid from GitHub Releases . Make sure your phone is on the same WiFi as