Run Gemma 4 on Your Phone with Google AI Edge Gallery
Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-04-05 · Open on X
Topics: LLM Fundamentals, AI Dev Tools & Productivity · Level: beginner
Summary
Shows that you can run Google's open Gemma 4 model directly on an iPhone or Android phone using the Google AI Edge Gallery app. This lets you run AI locally on the device, with no cloud.
Key points
- Gemma 4 can run on iPhone and Android phones.
- Download the Google AI Edge Gallery app to try it.
- Running the model on the phone means no cloud calls, so your data stays private and it can work offline.
Resources mentioned
- Gemma 4 · tool · ai.google.dev · free
Google's family of open-weight models in several sizes, built to run on devices and offline, with multimodal and agentic abilities, and open to fine-tuning.
Also in: Gemma 4 Runs Locally On-Device in the Antigravity SDK (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), On-Device AI: Running Gemma 4 E2B Offline on an iPhone with LiteRT (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Gemma 4 Models Offline on an iPhone (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Fine-tuning Gemma4-E2B on your own tweet style with Unsloth (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 25 more - Google AI Edge Gallery · tool · github.com · free
Google's free app for downloading and running open models like Gemma directly on a phone.
Try this
- Download the Google AI Edge Gallery app
- Run Gemma 4 locally on your phone
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