Features & Capabilities

Reins is a Chrome extension that gives you private control over self-hosted LLMs via Ollama. Connect to your Ollama Server from anywhere and enjoy per-chat system prompts, prompt editing, image integration, and real-time streaming for richer, more responsive conversations.

Experiment with advanced configurations—temperature, seed, context size, max tokens, and more—while dynamically switching models within chats. Save system and chat prompts as new models, manage multiple conversations, and create prompts on the fly. Note: Reins requires an active connection to a self-hosted Ollama Server to function.

User Growth & Download Statistics

By:
Ibrahim Cetin
Rating:
4.60
(240)
3 new ratings
Version:
1.3.4 Last updated: 2026-02-24
Version code:
882520953
Creation date:
2025-01-02
Compatible devices:
Size:
20.87MB
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Data ingested on:
2026-06-14
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Developed by:
Ibrahim Cetin
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reins-chat-for-ollama/id6739738501

User Reviews

Users praise Reins as a fast, well-designed native iOS client for locally hosted Ollama, with strong privacy and model-switching capabilities. They value speed and the clean interface, but note UI quirks (font size, scrolling, sidebar), onboarding/connectivity friction, and missing features like chat sync, default model, and copy/delete options. Some reviews also mention the absence of cloud/online mode. Overall, it’s free and effective for local LLMs, with clear room for UX and feature improvements.
Pros
  • Works well with locally hosted Ollama and keeps data on-device (privacy/local-first).
  • Clean, native iOS interface that's easy to use and fast.
  • Fast responses once Ollama is properly configured; efficient for local models.
  • Strong feature set for a mobile client: seamless model switching and well-formatted outputs; more options than the desktop app.
  • Free to use and accessible.
Cons
  • Onboarding/connectivity friction: keeps asking for a server or firewall blocks starting chat.
  • UI/Accessibility issues: small font, hard-to-read tables on mobile, and a left sidebar that can't be hidden.
  • No cross-device chat sync (no iCloud/NAS sync) and missing cloud-sync features.
  • Missing essential features: default model, chat deletion, copy responses, and API-key authentication.
  • Cloud/online mode support is removed or not available.
Recent reviews
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.
by Ki*****, 2026-05-19

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.
by Lu*****, 2026-05-11

Wish Reins allowed copying responses
by le*****, 2026-04-30
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