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You can run Z-Image Turbo on your Android phone with Off Grid AI Mobile (OGAM). If your phone has 12 GB of RAM, download Z-Image Turbo (Light) once, about 6 GB, and you get 1024px images with clean English or Chinese lettering, made on your own phone with no internet and nothing uploaded.
It’s free, the model is Apache-2.0, and there are no credits to buy.
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What Z-Image Turbo is
Z-Image Turbo is a 6-billion-parameter image model from Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab, released under Apache-2.0. It makes an image in 8 steps and can write text in pictures in English and Chinese. Tongyi says it fits on a PC graphics card with 16 GB of memory. OGAM runs a quantized build that fits a phone with 12 GB of RAM.
OGAM 0.0.122 (4 November 2026) added it to the Image tab, and its catalog marks the full build Top quality.
What you need
| Z-Image Turbo (Light) | Z-Image Turbo (2026) | |
|---|---|---|
| Download | About 6.0 GB | About 6.7 GB |
| Phone RAM | 12 GB or more | 16 GB or more |
| Quantization | Q3_K | Q4_K |
| App | OGAM 0.0.122 or later | OGAM 0.0.122 or later |
Each download includes the Qwen3 4B Instruct text encoder and the VAE. The app fetches all three files together.
OGAM checks memory before it lists a model, so on an 8 GB phone you won’t see Z-Image at all. To check your RAM, open Android Settings, then About phone.
Phone support is new. Z-Image Turbo runs on Mac, Windows and Linux today. If it fails on yours, the SDXL Light models in the same tab are the proven choice.
How fast it is depends on your chip
Snapdragon phones run Z-Image on the CPU, because Snapdragon’s graphics chip crashes on this kind of model. That’s slow, and Z-Image’s 8 steps make it slower than FLUX.2 klein’s 4. The model card says About N min per image on this phone before you download, so you know the wait first. For scale, an SDXL image took about 26 minutes on a OnePlus with a Snapdragon chip in our own test.
Phones whose GPU can run it, such as MediaTek Dimensity phones, run it on the GPU, and the card shows no wait estimate.
If you have a Snapdragon phone and want a picture in seconds, the app’s picks for your phone are models built for the Snapdragon NPU. Use Z-Image when the lettering or the look matters more than the wait.
Make your first Z-Image picture
- Install OGAM from Google Play, or update it to 0.0.122 or later.
- Tap Models in the bottom bar, then the Image tab.
- Type Z-Image in Search models.
- Tap Z-Image Turbo (Light) and download it. Use Wi-Fi, because it’s about 6 GB.
- Open a chat and ask for a picture: “draw a street food stall with a hand-written menu board reading NOODLES 5, warm evening light”. OGAM sees it’s an image request and sends it to your image model.
- To make every message a picture, tap Chat options next to the message box and set Image to ON. Auto lets the app decide.
If you have more than one image model, choose Z-Image in the model picker’s image tab before you send. Put the words you want drawn in quotes or capitals, and keep them short.
The style row above the message box works with Z-Image too. Tap Photoreal or Cinematic before you send, or tap Restyle under a finished picture to draw it again in another look.
Once it’s downloaded, turn on airplane mode and ask for another picture. It still works, because the prompt and the picture never leave the phone.
If something goes wrong
| What you see | Why | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Z-Image isn’t in the list | Your phone has less than 12 GB of RAM, or the app is older than 0.0.122 | Update OGAM. On an 8 GB phone, use RealVisXL v5.0 Lightning (Light) |
| Only the Light build shows | Your phone has less than 16 GB of RAM | Use the Light build. It’s the same model at a smaller size |
| The card says many minutes per image | Your phone is a Snapdragon, so Z-Image runs on the CPU | Keep the phone on charge, or use a pick for your phone, or make images on your computer from your phone |
| The app stops partway through an image | The phone ran short of memory | Close other apps and try again |
FAQ
Can Z-Image Turbo run on an Android phone? Yes, on a phone with 12 GB of RAM or more. Off Grid AI Mobile 0.0.122 added Z-Image Turbo to its Image tab. The Light build shows on 12 GB phones and the full build needs 16 GB. Support on phones is new, so start with Light.
How big is the Z-Image Turbo download? About 6.0 GB for Z-Image Turbo (Light) and about 6.7 GB for the full build. Both include the Qwen3 4B text encoder and the VAE, so you don’t fetch any extra files.
How long does one Z-Image Turbo image take on a phone? On a Snapdragon phone Off Grid AI runs it on the CPU, which is slow, and the model card tells you about how many minutes one image takes before you download. Z-Image takes 8 steps, twice as many as FLUX.2 klein, so it’s the longer wait of the two.
Is Z-Image Turbo free on Android? Yes. Image generation is part of the free Off Grid AI app, and Z-Image Turbo is released under Apache-2.0. There’s no account, no credits and no limit on images.
Should I pick Z-Image Turbo or FLUX.2 klein on my phone? Pick FLUX.2 klein 4B if you want the faster one, since it takes 4 steps and its Light build needs less memory. Pick Z-Image Turbo for lettering in English or Chinese and for top quality, if your phone has 12 GB of RAM.
Related guides
- How to Run FLUX.2 Klein on Your Android Phone in 2026 (Offline AI Images, No Cloud)
- How to Run Z-Image Turbo on Your iPhone in 2026 (Offline AI Images, No Subscription)
- How to Generate AI Images Locally on Your Android Phone in 2026 (No Cloud, No Subscription)
- How to Run a Local AI Image Studio on Your Desktop (SDXL, Z-Image, Offline)
Get Off Grid AI on Google Play and check whether Z-Image Turbo shows up for your phone.