Show HN: PhoneDiffusion – Local AI image generation for iOS
PhoneDiffusion is a local AI image generation app designed for iOS devices. It allows users to create unlimited text-to-image visuals offline using Stable Diffusion technology. The app emphasizes privacy by keeping generated images and prompts on the user's device unless shared or exported.
- ▪PhoneDiffusion is a free local AI image generator available for iPhone and iPad.
- ▪The app supports unlimited text-to-image creation and operates offline.
- ▪Users can keep their prompts and generated images private on their devices.
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Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | App Store |
| Canonical URL | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/phonediffusion/id6762061991 |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 15:23:22 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T15:27:38.202Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T15:27:38.202Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | kHeYGAM8Jrjy |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
PhoneDiffusion Local AI, Stable Diffusion Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS. Share Age Rating 18+ Years Category Graphics & Design Developer akroin Language EN English Size 21.8 MB iPhone, iPad Local AI Image Generator for iPhone: free, unlimited, offline Stable Diffusion. PhoneDiffusion lets you create AI images, art, characters, concepts, and visuals directly on your iPhone with on-device Stable Diffusion. Why choose PhoneDiffusion: • Free local AI image generation • Unlimited text-to-image creation • Offline Stable Diffusion on iPhone • Private prompts and images • Compatible on-device model packs • Fast, clean creative workflow Your prompts and generated images stay on your iPhone unless you choose to share or export them.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at App Store.