An AI friend that answers with no internet.
Aboki runs a small language model entirely on the phone. It answers everyday questions and helps children with homework without data, signal or a subscription, on the Android phones families in Nigeria already own.
Android 7 or newer, 3 GB of memory or more.
Airplane mode. No signal, no data.
How do I prevent malaria?
Three things protect your family the most:
- Sleep under a treated net every night.
- Empty standing water near the house.
- Cover arms and legs in the evening.
From the offline library: Malaria prevention
Most AI needs a connection that most people can't afford to keep on.
Data is bought by the megabyte and signal comes and goes. An assistant that sends every question to a server is out of reach for the people who would use it most: a farmer deciding when to plant, a mother worried about a fever, a child stuck on fractions.
Aboki moves the whole model onto the phone instead. Once it is there, every answer is free and works anywhere.
How Aboki reaches a phone without data
Downloaded once, on Wi-Fi
The model file is fetched one time at a school, a community centre or a phone shop. Aboki Lite is 704 MB.
Shared from phone to phone
It moves the way music already does: Xender, Nearby Share, Bluetooth or an SD card. No data is used.
Answers offline from then on
Nothing in the app needs the internet to work. Updates are optional, and only happen when someone chooses.
A homework helper a parent can hand over
In homework mode Aboki becomes a patient tutor rather than an answer machine. The parent sets it up once with a PIN.
- Guides with hints and questions instead of giving answers away.
- Only talks about schoolwork, and turns away topics that aren't for children.
- Shows the parent every question their child asked.
- Pins Aboki to the screen so other apps stay closed.
- Never touches the internet, not even for updates.
What is 1/4 + 1/8?
Let's solve it together. To add fractions, the bottom numbers must be the same.
How many eighths fit in one quarter? Count the boxes.
One friend, made for three kinds of helper
Built for the cheapest phone in the room
Aboki checks how much memory a phone has and recommends the model that fits. All four are open models (Gemma 3, Qwen3 and MedGemma) run on the phone with llama.cpp.
| Model | Good for | File size | Phone memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aboki Lite | Quick answers for everyday questions | 704 MB | 3 GB or more |
| Aboki Study | School subjects, explained step by step | 1.0 GB | 4 GB or more |
| Aboki Pro | Longer, more careful answers | 2.3 GB | 6 GB or more |
| Aboki Health | General health information for adults, not a diagnosis | 2.3 GB | 6 GB or more |
Answers are grounded in offline library packs: small files of trusted notes on health and school subjects that travel the same way as the model.
Languages
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The app speaks English, Hausa, Yorùbá, Igbo and Nigerian Pidgin. Aboki in Kano, in Hausa
Your questions stay on your phone
- Every answer is worked out on the phone. No question is sent away to be answered.
- No account, no sign-up, no adverts and no tracking.
- Nothing downloads by itself. Updates happen only when an adult chooses.
- In homework mode, a child's questions are seen by their parent, and nobody else.
Guides to get started
- How to use AI on your phone with no internet or dataMost AI apps send every question to a server. Here is how an offline AI app works on an Android phone, what you need, and what to expect.
- Homework help without the internet: a guide for parentsHand your phone to your child for homework without handing them the internet. How to set up Aboki homework mode with a parent PIN in five minutes.
- How to share Aboki from phone to phone with no dataSend the Aboki AI model to another phone with Xender, Nearby Share, Bluetooth or an SD card. Step by step, with no mobile data used.
What Aboki can't do yet, and where partners come in
Answers are mostly in English
The app speaks five languages, but no small model answers well in Hausa, Yorùbá or Igbo yet. We want to build and test one with language partners.
Small models make mistakes
Aboki says so, grounds answers in offline library notes, and sends people to a health worker for anything serious. We want health and education bodies to write and review those notes.
Reaching phones is the hard part
The file has to get onto each phone once. We want schools, community centres and phone shops to load phones and SD cards.
There is no field data yet
Aboki has not been piloted. We are looking for first pilots to find out what helps, and what does not.
Try it on an Android phone, then talk to us.
Android 7 or newer, 3 GB of memory or more. Install the app, then add a model by downloading it once or copying it from another phone.
