Strata on your iPhone

Yes: PocketHam. Strata keeps running on your Windows or Linux PC, and the PocketHam iPhone app chats with its model from anywhere: the couch, cell, a hotel, the office. The PocketHam desktop app finds Strata by itself and lists it by name, right next to anything else you run, like Ollama, LM Studio or ComfyUI. Chatting with your own models is free.

1. Install the free PocketHam desktop app on the PC that runs Strata (download).
2. Open it. It finds Strata on port 8080 and shows its model, ready to share.
3. Install PocketHam on your iPhone and scan the pairing code on your PC's screen.
4. Pick the Strata model and start chatting. Leave the house and keep going: it connects directly when it can and through a sealed relay when it can't.

None of them. PocketHam talks to Strata on the PC itself, so Strata stays on its default 127.0.0.1 address, exactly how its own docs recommend. Nothing on port 8080 is opened to your network or the internet. Your phone connects to PocketHam end to end encrypted, through home routers and firewalls as they are, and only PocketHam's own traffic goes home.

• Chat with the Strata model from anywhere, with your chat history kept on your own PC
• Switch between Strata and any other model on any computer you pair
• See how much memory Strata is using, and stop it with a tap when you need the PC back
• Talk instead of type, and hear replies in natural voices made by your own computer (Pro)
• Hand tasks to coding agents on the same PC and approve their commands from your lock screen (Pro)

No cloud AI is involved. Strata answers on your PC, and your prompts and replies travel end to end encrypted between your phone and that PC, with keys only your devices hold. No account, no analytics. The details are on the privacy page.