# Google AI Edge Gallery

24 Hacker News commenters recommended Google AI Edge Gallery and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free Google app that runs small AI models directly on phones and Macs, working offline and easy to set up.

## Why people recommend it

- Runs AI models on phone offline (4 comments): "Check out this app they built which loads in the Gemma 270m models and runs them on your phone." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46318418)) "download the Google Edge Gallery app and one of the chat models, then go into airplane mode" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783262)) "Your phone can probably run one of these" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451801))
- Fast on recent phones and Macs (4 comments): "runs blazingly fast on an M4 iPad or current gen high-end Android device in Google's AI Edge Gallery" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822824)) "The S25 (edge) runs this very well. 29 tok/s for E2B." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658238)) "They run great on android in the Edge Gallery app." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460519))
- Easy setup, turn-key use (3 comments): "Anyone with a 16GB Mac — that is quite a lot of journalists, surely — can download that, install a model into it, and play." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387769)) "download the Google Edge Gallery app and one of the chat models, then go into airplane mode" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783262)) "Google Edge Gallery is turn key for people" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624087))
- Useful for emails, scripts, code (4 comments): "It works perfectly fine for use cases like summarizing emails and such" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222877)) "very good results for random python scripts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783288)) "gave me working code on first try" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197954))

## What people warn about

- Missing features like web search (2 comments): "it seems like they hobbled it, not giving access to intents" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682463)) "it doesn't seem too good at the web search tool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418528))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Google AI Edge Gallery", https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-ai-edge-gallery/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).