Greko brings contacts and chat memory to its offline Android assistant

An offline phone assistant becomes more useful when it can find the person you mean—and remember what you discussed. Greko’s 2.25 beta adds contact-by-name actions, retrieval from earlier chats and Android sharing to a community assistant built around a small Qwen-derived model.

The actual release is build 40, committed November 2 at 16:43:31 UTC. Its repository received new demo uploads on November 4, including entries titled “Greko sees photos” and “Greko does things.” Those uploads are fresh activity, not the app’s release date or evidence of measured adoption.

“Text mum” still ends with your tap

According to the English project card, Agent mode resolves contact names with the user’s permission and opens Android’s own Messages or Phone application. The user still taps Send or Call. That distinction separates a prepared action from a silently completed one.

The update also lets users ask about earlier saved conversations and share text or a picture into Greko from another application. Its English release notes list fixes for relative weekdays and for keeping an English-requested text message in English. These are app changes: the author explicitly says the model is unchanged from app version 2.23 beta, so existing users do not need a new model download for this update.

Greko’s model version is 2.4, distinct from the Android app’s 2.25-beta label. The card identifies a fine-tune of Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct’s language model, with a separate vision encoder and projector. It supports English and Greek.

An on-device option with beta limits

The documented route is an APK from the Hugging Face repository. The card specifies Android 13 or newer, arm64 hardware and at least 2 GB of RAM. First launch offers a download of roughly 1.3 GB for the standard model and vision components, or roughly 1 GB for the Lite option on lower-memory phones. Those are the author’s requirements, not an AITrending device compatibility test.

The project describes local inference and local chat retrieval after setup. Optional web search uses online sources when enabled, and connecting external services such as Notion is a separate network-facing feature. Its offline positioning should therefore be read in the context of the features the user switches on.

The model card declares Apache-2.0 licensing; that declaration alone does not establish a separately reviewed license for the Android application’s source or every integration. The author also labels Greko a beta and acknowledges incorrect facts and uneven long Greek answers. AITrending reviewed the English card, dated commit and manifest, without installing the APK or independently testing its privacy and action behavior.