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Well, not every one. I made an android locally run AI ESRGAN super resolution app (a year ago) to upscale your photos without uploading them "to the cloud" and it was a normal app with a normal UI.

There was a free and a paid version (the only difference was ads I was planning to run every couple of uses, but at the level of usage there was no point enabling them). I say it was, because Google has likely pulled it from the store for not being upgraded to android 13 before the end of August.

Not that many people were interested (about ~5 paid and 30 new free users per month) for about a year. So I'm not spending lots of time on it (it was me testing if people are interested in more private AI solutions, some are, but not the majority).

Instead we have apps like ones described and they have 1mln+ installs so evidently people want them. If I had to make my living making mobile apps I'd probably make the exact same thing seeing their success.



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