Conduit: OpenWebUI Client App Reviews

Routing from my iPhone using Tailscale to Conduit and OpenWeb UI on my server I’ve had very stable results. Some rendering issues with choosing a specific knowledge base in OpenWeb but sure that is a bug on their end for mobile.

Bug fixed on GitHub issue

I have access to a pretty beefy server, but didn’t really use it from my phone because the mobile PWA is goofy. I like that this app collects no data, and surfaces your models very easily. There’s a good chunk of settings that are omitted in OWUI, but that reduction is what makes this so clean. Nice work, thank you for keeping it simple.

My server is behind Cloudflare zero trust and I use service credential headers to authenticate. These are supported but the app forgets them so they have to be constantly recopied, which is a pain.

It runs smoothly and is easy to setup if your Open WebUI is setup correctly. The devs did an amazing job! My only wish is that web search would stay on all the time. It’s gets disabled every time I close and reopen the app.

The app itself is very simple and clean to use. A lot of the features or options in OWUI are missing (as expected) but I do wish there was at least an option to add a system prompt (like in OWUI). Slash prompts are okay but system prompts seem a lot more effective as they are pinned and cannot be overridden. I’d give the app a 5 if the feature was there. But until then I might stick to using OWUI as a web app instead.

I miss native apps

Fantastic job developing this companion app for OpenWebUI. It works beautifully and it’s updated constantly.

So far I am mostly pleased with this iOS version. The only thing I would recommend is the ability to add more than one connection. I would like the ability to connect locally and through Tailscale away from home.

This is helping me transition over to using my self-hosted OpenWebUI instance over ChatGPT. The official PWA was just too clunky. This is just what I needed to take back ownership of my data.

I use this app on 4 different devices, android and iOS and it’s smooth, responsive and has all the features I need from a mobile client (including self hosted STT). Thank you for all the great updates!

developer fixed the bug in the new release

Overall works well. The thing that needs to be fixed is the conversation sync with the server. I delete from the open webui interface then go to the app and it is still there. When I go to delete it errors out and the app goes black.

This app is an exceptionally good client for OWUI and is complete with secure authentication and an extremely usable UI. Great work.

UI could use some touch ups, and hopefully implement Liquid Glass soon. Please implement a donate option as well as I’d like to keep this project active. I tried making an app for myself to connect to my OpenWebUI instance and I could not get chat history to persist across the WebUI and App so bravo to beating me to it LOL.

I bought the app knowing it wouldn’t be top tier but right now not even the web search function works (it does in the actual webui though) so I cannot really recommend the app till then, would happy to update my review once this is fixed!