A LinkedIn connection asked me about creating a mobile app with Open WebUI. Sharing my response here for others that may be interested:
It may be possible to build an iphone app that you download from the iphone app store using Open WebUI but I don’t think you would want to for 2 reasons:
- If you care about privacy and ownership, then putting something in the app store negates these advantages. In other words apple can turn your digital brain off whenever they want.
- If you don’t care about privacy and ownership then there are much better options than Open WebUI for building mobile apps that run off of the Open AI API, including no code options. I have not done this but if you search youtube there are lots of videos showing you how to do this.
Open WebUI is responsive on mobile however, and you can set it up so that you can access it via mobile using Ngrok. I show how to do that in the setup video here starting at minute 23: https://youtu.be/0Et3uC8PSdg?si=jp7hpxR3fAMqTIS-
So I didn’t have to do anything special to set the digital brain that I build using Open WebUI up to work on mobile as I show in the food diary video, it automatically works on both desktop and mobile.
I also didn’t have to do any custom programming, all I needed to do was give a prompt for what I was looking to do and I was off to the races.
Open WebUI is also built so you can have multiple users and it can be hosted in the cloud. So if you wanted to build a food diary or whatever that others can access you would probably want to host it in the cloud.