Mobile app · AI chatbots & assistants
Maskan — Private AI Chat
Private BYOK AI chat. 11 providers, voice, image, export. 3 languages.
- Completely free
- Android
- Open source
Overview
Maskan — Private AI Chat is an AI chat assistant, available on Android.
Features described in its F-Droid listing: open-weight models (Llama, Mistral…), local model execution, choice of several models and providers, data encryption, image understanding, voice input and commands, read-aloud, Markdown support.
Services and protocols mentioned: Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini.
Remote models are reached with your own API key; these providers generally charge for usage.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
- “Private BYOK AI chat.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Private BYOK AI chat.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Bring your own API key from OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, Together AI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including local models (Ollama, LM Studio).” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Bring your own API key from OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, Together AI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including local models (Ollama, LM Studio).” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Bring your own API key from OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, Together AI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including local models (Ollama, LM Studio).” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Your API keys are encrypted with AES-256-GCM via Android Keystore.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Image input — send photos to vision-capable models (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini)” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Voice input — speech-to-text in Arabic, English, and Thai” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Voice narration — hear AI responses read aloud” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Export conversations as plain text or markdown” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
At a glance
Maskan — Private AI Chat is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.
Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.
Strengths
- Open source code
- No advertising
- Commercial use allowed
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