OpenRelay for iPod touch

Introducing

OpenRelay for iPod touch.

Today's open models. As text messages. On the iPod you already own.
Now with people in it.

Download Install guide Version 1.1 · 77 KB · iOS 4.3 · iPod touch 4th generation and iPhone 4
OpenRelay running on an iPod touch

It texts you back.

Replies arrive as a run of short messages, one bubble at a time, with the typing dots in between. It even says Delivered.

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Contacts

Every conversation is a person. Seven come built in: a barista, a sarcastic friend, a Spanish tutor, your grandpa, 2010 itself, Zork, and the plain assistant. Add your own with a name, a model and a personality.

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Texts like a person

Short bursts, held for a beat each so they land the way people type. Send swoosh, receive tri-tone, Delivered under your last message.

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Photos

Take one, choose one, or send the last photo you took. Gemma 4, GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek OCR see it.

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Voice notes

Tap the mic, talk, tap again. A tiny relay on your Mac runs Whisper and the words land in the message field. No key, no cloud.

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Daily text

Pick a time. Whoever you texted last sends you a message every morning, and the iPod lights up with it.

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Shake, copy, email

Shake to text someone else or clear the thread. Hold a bubble to copy it or email it to yourself.

Gallery

Captured on the device.

Install

Five minutes on a jailbroken device.

  1. Start from a jailbroken iPod touch 4 or iPhone 4 on iOS 4.3. Legacy iOS Kit handles the downgrade and the jailbreak.
  2. Install AppSync for iOS 4, then TLSFix from cydia.skyglow.es together with the certificate bundle at tlsroot.litten.ca. This gives iOS 4 modern HTTPS.
  3. Download OpenRelay-1.1.ipa and install it: ideviceinstaller install OpenRelay-1.1.ipa
  4. Open the app, enter your OpenRelay API key under Settings, and tap Load Models. Choose openrelay/gemma-4-31b for photos.
  5. Optional, for voice notes: on a Mac on the same Wi-Fi, brew install whisper-cpp, download voice-relay.py and the base.en model into a models folder beside it, run it, and put http://your-mac:8787/transcribe under Voice Notes in Settings.

Specifications

 

Compatibility
iOS 4.3 to 4.3.5, armv7. iPod touch 4th generation, iPhone 4. Jailbreak required.
Models
Any chat model on your OpenRelay account. Vision on Gemma 4 31B, GLM 5.3 Flash, DeepSeek OCR 2.
Streaming
Server-sent events over HTTPS. Replies split into messages at paragraph breaks.
Photos
JPEG, 640 pixels on the long side, sent inline. The two most recent photos stay in context.
Privacy
Your key and your conversations never leave the device, except to OpenRelay.
Voice
16 kHz mono WAV to a relay on your LAN. whisper.cpp base.en transcribes a sentence in about a second on Apple silicon.
Size
77 KB installed.