Oh no, some run on iPhones

They're pretty basic and hallucinate a lot. There are some hard limits to how good you can get on a model that fits on a phone.

Qwen3 and Gemma level models that run on mid-high end laptops and desktops can be pretty good. Not frontier grade, but shockingly competent for something that runs on a single PC. But the hardware you need to run those fast is at least $1000-$2000. Cheap hardware can run them, but slooooooow.