For when you just
need to be heard.

A small on-device listener. No one watching.

01  ·  Listening

A sanctuary
for thoughts.

When you need to unload, Nod listens without fixing. Nothing leaves your phone. No servers, no accounts, no tracking, just you, talking.

"Your job is not to solve problems. Speak like a real person who cares." — from Nod's listening prompt

02  ·  Offline

Listens even when
you can't connect.

On a plane. In a tunnel. On a trail with one bar. The entire conversation runs on the same chip that renders this message. No network required.

Apple Intelligence is ready the moment you install. Switch engines in settings and the weights download once, then they're yours forever. After that, Nod is as offline as your camera.

03  ·  Engines

Pick the mind
that listens.

Nod ships with four on-device engines. Apple's own model is the default, so Nod works the second you open it. No download, nothing to configure.

Prefer open weights? Switch to Qwen 3 Instruct, Qwen 3.5 4B, or Gemma 4 E2B. Nod pulls them once, then runs them entirely on your phone.

04  ·  Memory

What matters to you,
on your phone.

After each conversation, Nod picks up the details that seem to matter — the people in your life, the things you're working on, the situations you keep coming back to.

Swipe any entry away. Tap Start fresh to wipe the whole thing. No profile builds up in a data center somewhere, because there is no data center.

05  ·  Voice

Or just talk.

Tap the mic and start speaking. A warm orange glow hugs the edge of the screen while Nod listens. It commits when you pause. No tap required.

Transcription runs on-device using iOS 26's SpeechAnalyzer. What you say never leaves the phone, not even for speech-to-text.

06  ·  Personal

Make it yours.

Two quiet pickers and a free-form field shape how Nod talks to you. Shorter or deeper, pure listening or a little reflection.

Add a line about yourself and Nod tucks it into every response. A companion that actually sounds like someone who knows you.

07  ·  Private

Keep it yours.

Turn on Require Face ID and the whole app sits behind biometric auth. Close it, open it, the conversation waits for you.

Nobody else gets in. Not a partner glancing at your phone, not a friend passing it around. What you tell Nod stays with Nod.

08  ·  Proof

Runs entirely
on your phone.

Nod has no backend. There's no server to leak, no account to delete, no API key to revoke. Every word you type stays in a local database on the device, read only by a model running on the same chip.

0 Servers
0 Accounts
0 Analytics
4 On-device engines
nod — status
engine
Apple FoundationModels Apple Intelligence's on-device LLM. Runs the second you open the app — no download, no network.
alt engines
Qwen 3, Qwen 3.5, Gemma 4 Open-weights via MLX Swift. Weights download once (2–3 GB, Wi-Fi), then run on-device forever.
memory
On-device fact extraction Structured memories pulled from each turn. Browse them in the sidebar, swipe any one away, or tap Start fresh.
storage
Local SQLite · GRDB.swift Encrypted at rest by iOS. iCloud backup optional, off by default.
analytics
none No telemetry, no tracking pixels, no third-party SDKs.
"We can't see what you write. Not because we promise, but because Nod has no backend receiving your conversation."

Open source.

Read the code.
Build it yourself if you want.

Nod is MIT-licensed. Every line of Swift, every system prompt, every database migration — all of it is on GitHub. The App Store build is signed from the maintainer's account; the code it's built from is the code in the repo.

If "trust us" bothers you, verify us.

It's free.

Available now as Just Nod
on the App Store.

Nod was taken. Just Nod was available. The in-app button is still called "just nod."

Download on the App Store

Requires iPhone with Apple Intelligence — iOS 26.0 or later.
Works instantly on Apple's on-device model. If you later switch to an open-weights engine (Qwen or Gemma via MLX) in settings, Nod downloads the selected model once — 2–3 GB, Wi-Fi by default.