Bilal Shihab / Projects

Localabs

An iPhone app that turns a photographed lab report into a five-section plain-language readout, running a medical language model entirely on the phone.

Solo projectApr 2026 – presentFeature-complete, not on the App Store
Specmeasured on iPhone 17
Model
MedGemma 4B, 2.5 GB quantized
Runtime
llama.cpp on Metal GPU
Photo to readout
~12 s
OCR
Apple Vision, table reconstruction
Output
Summary, glossary, diet, questions, medications
Context
30 days of HealthKit data
Cloud baseline
Command A+: 7.1 s median, ~$0.02/report
Requires
iOS 26, iPhone 15 Pro or later

Write-up coming soon.

Why I built it

Who it was for and what problem they had.

The hard part

One decision I had to make and what I gave up.

What I'd do next

Honest limits and the next measurement.