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Reins: Chat for Ollama

Originator Ibrahim Cetin

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Take the Reins of your AI. Reins connects to your Ollama server and brings powerful AI models like Llama, Gemma, Qwen and more on your iPhone and iPad — with tools, web search, and full control over every conversation. No login. No data collection. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No login. No account. No data collection. Everything you chat stays yours. TOOLS & WEB SEARCH Go beyond chat. Reins gives models the ability to search the web, fetch pages, calculate and reason across multiple steps — no API key required for web search. FULL MODEL CONTROL Download, switch and manage your Ollama models directly from the app. Connect multiple servers, configure API keys and custom headers and switch between them instantly. Access Ollama Cloud when you need it. POWERFUL CHAT Attach images, PDFs, CSVs and text files to any conversation. Enable thinking mode for deeper reasoning when you need it. Branch chats to explore different paths without losing your original thread. Never lose a cut-off response, pick up exactly where it stopped. Export or back up your conversations anytime. FINE-GRAINED CONTROL Set a different system prompt for every conversation. Dial in temperature, context size, max tokens and more for precise control over model behavior. BACKGROUND PROCESSING No need to wait around for complex reasoning or long responses. Switch apps or lock your screen and Reins keeps generating in the background. Come back and it'll be waiting for you. (Requires iOS or iPadOS 26.0+) Reins requires an Ollama server. Self-hosted or Ollama Cloud both work. Privacy Policy: https://getreins.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://getreins.app/terms

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Developer & User Discourse

Olivine Cat • Jul 17, 2026 ★ 2

Thinking and tool use are basic features provided by the already running ollama server. I get gating some features, like search API features, or things that require your custom MCP server, but gating basic model features like thinking, image input support, or simple things like a server list, model parameters, and other things that the users are already getting just by running ollama is just kind of... clownish

i could see paying $10 or so for some of those features. one time. the more premium lifetime access for the search feature and custom tools and whatever also makes sense, but a subscription fee for features that were already freely available before makes me sad. i could just pay $20 for for claude credits to deploy openwebui with a self update script or something and use that in safari at that point 😭

Bkmmkb • Jul 13, 2026 ★ 1

When I first got the app it seemed to have decent functionality but now every basic feature is behind a subscription wall. Use something else.

Netapp76 • Jul 10, 2026 ★ 1

Tool calls do not work

Tee veer • Jun 28, 2026 ★ 1

Paywalling everything after stopping the code releases is the fastest way to lose goodwill. I would have even considered paying pro if the code was still open. I had it on both my Linux workstations and phone. What was one of my preferred apps is now on my uninstall list. with the downgrade to a subscription model, I’ll be on the look for a new app. A shame as it was one of the best LLM client apps.

Harry Azzcrak • Jun 5, 2026 ★ 5

THIS THING WORKS

Ben Hetrick • Jun 3, 2026 ★ 5

I really appreciate having a simple app to just plug into a local model im running and prompt it immediately.

.txt file support is the only thing i could ask for to improve it. Otherwise if you're running a model in ollama and sharing to the local network then this is a no-brainer.

Kidplus1 • May 19, 2026 ★ 5

We have been utilizing this as both the front end and back in operations in AI and VI operations analytics within our infrastructure we have found that this has been a very exciting platform and tool that allows us to use existing infrastructure resources that are not to the general public, but at the same time balancing out public access in our processes operations in our research. I do recommend that if you’re going to utilize this in an environment that is in a corporate structure or research center that you allow this to run in your infrastructure that has the suitable configuration, including TPU and GPU included in the configuration inside the servers itself and have high speed storage interaction and connection connections that allow the process to collect the information necessary and then provide the most non-biased laboratory information and also will allow your team to create your own models as well. Done our initial research and development. Did this information allowed to be used and collect an invoice information other models within the system, but for security reasons and other aspects of this, we decided to disable dysfunction in our production side of our house however, in the research side on how it’s the best we still have it available but a production and more sensitive stuff because of security and the lack of guardrails and business ethics of those are outside the world of our development in ethics disabled this before it could be also used against us as well, but we get strong. Kudos to this platform and so thankful that it’s available.

LuvColorado • May 11, 2026 ★ 4

Love the interface. The ability to select a specific model and have access to everything in Ollama is great. I would really like to see the ability to add files to a Chat session other than just images (especially text and PDF files). Hopefully that functionality is coming soon?

This would be a five-star App with additional file support in the chat interface.

lee.ca • Apr 30, 2026 ★ 4

Wish Reins allowed copying responses

dvaa233 • Apr 8, 2026 ★ 4

不支持联网模式吗

DadsMcWags • Apr 6, 2026 ★ 5

Would LOVE to see MCP integrated!

sun12_ • Apr 5, 2026 ★ 5

it can’t run an ollama server on its own which is expected but it has an excellent, clean interface for connecting to and running ai on a server of your own. i thought i would have trouble finding an app like this for ios but this is great

nvertigo21 • Apr 2, 2026 ★ 4

Nice app to talk to your local LLM. There seems to be a bug with scrolling jumping around, but otherwise it has been solid.

Oliver Tseng • Mar 19, 2026 ★ 5

A great mobile client to access my Ollama on my home server. Thank you for your excellent work.

TheKis3r • Mar 15, 2026 ★ 5

Thanks to the dev for making this and releasing it for free! Really solid app if you have an Ollama host. Interface is really easy to use and clean, they offer clients for a whole range of devices, and I really appreciate the privacy/local-first approach. If your LLM generates a table in its response, and you're on a phone, it gets really scrunched and hard to read though (wish I could horizontally scroll the table). I also wish there was an option to have the chats centralized so you could access them from any device. iCloud, NAS, whatever... The lack of that led me to Open WebUI and hosting that on a Pi. But for judging the app on its merits alone I think the table issue is my only real gripe but considering everything else and the price of $Free.fiddy, 5 stars all day.

DDD恶魔社长 • Mar 3, 2026 ★ 2

左边这个侧栏怎么隐藏起来，平板竖着用这侧栏都占了三分之一的位置了

JustinIntsuJ • Feb 5, 2026 ★ 1

Keeps asking me for a server even tho I’m on my phone. Won’t let me get past this.

Kumat • Jan 30, 2026 ★ 1

Just like I described in the title , it won’t work even I turn off the firewall totally.

JCReed97 • Dec 27, 2025 ★ 4

Was very easy to get running. Only thing missing is some sort of sync for chats between devices, preferably via iCloud, and interacting via voice.

myopinionsaregarbo • Dec 24, 2025 ★ 5

This does exactly what I wanted!