About
We put the model on the phone.
Odyra AI is an independent mobile studio. We build apps that read the world through a camera or a microphone — speech, printed text, the room around you — and we do the reading on the device that captured it.
Why it matters
The default architecture is wrong for this class of app.
The standard way to build an AI feature is to send the input to a server and render whatever comes back. For most software that is fine. For an app pointed at a room, or listening to someone’s voice, it means every use produces an upload, and every upload produces a record somewhere neither of you controls.
It is also slow. A round-trip per frame cannot keep up with a camera sweeping a room, and it fails entirely in exactly the places these apps are most useful — a hotel room abroad, a basement, a country where your data plan doesn’t work.
Running the model locally solves both at once. That is the whole thesis, and everything we ship is a test of it.
The rule we hold ourselves to
Put the phone in airplane mode. If the app stops working, we built it wrong.
The trade
What on-device costs us.
It is not free, and pretending otherwise would be the same overselling we are trying to avoid. Four things we give up.
Smaller models, chosen carefully
A phone will not run a frontier model, so the work is picking architectures that fit the device and the specific job — and being honest when a task genuinely needs more than a phone has.
Bigger downloads
Shipping the weights inside the app means a larger install than a thin client. We think a one-time download beats a permanent dependency on someone else's uptime.
Battery is a real budget
Inference costs power. Models only run while you are actually looking at the thing that needs them, never in the background.
No usage data to learn from
The flip side of collecting nothing is that we cannot watch how you use the app. We rely on you telling us instead, which is slower and worth it.
Where we are
Early, and saying so.
Nothing has shipped yet. 3 apps are in development, and this site exists partly because both app stores require a published privacy policy before you can submit anything.
When the first app lands, this page will say so. Get in touch if you want to talk before then.