acknowledgements
amble is built by one person, standing on a lot of excellent open-source work. This page credits the software and the on-device AI model that make amble possible, and links to each project's license. Thank you to everyone who made these.
The app
- GRDB.swift — Gwendal Roué · MIT
- Rive (rive-ios) — Rive Inc. · MIT
- Pow — Emerge Tools · MIT
On-device AI
amble's assistant runs entirely on your iPhone. On first use it downloads a small open-weights language model — Qwen3 — from Hugging Face, then runs it locally. Nothing you type is sent to a server; the download is a one-time fetch of the model files.
- Qwen3 (0.6B / 1.7B) — Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Apache 2.0
- GGUF quantizations — Unsloth · Apache 2.0 (model license applies)
- llama.cpp — Georgi Gerganov & contributors · MIT
- LocalLLMClient — Norikazu Muramoto (tattn) · MIT
- swift-transformers — Hugging Face · Apache 2.0
Swift & foundations
- SwiftNIO, swift-crypto, swift-collections, swift-algorithms, swift-numerics, swift-log, swift-system, and other Swift ecosystem packages — Apple & the Swift server community · Apache 2.0
Full license texts
The complete text of each license is included with the app and available from the linked repositories above. The MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses are permissive; amble complies with their attribution requirements by crediting each project here and preserving their notices where required.
Questions
If you maintain one of these projects and would like a correction to how you're credited, email st72365@gmail.com and I'll fix it right away.