Is LM Studio safe to use?
A friendly desktop app for downloading and running AI models entirely on your own computer. It looks like a normal chat app, but everything runs offline.
Last reviewed: 20 July 2026
Does LM Studio train on what you type?
No.
Can you turn LM Studio's training off?
Nothing to opt out of. Everything runs locally on your own computer, so no data leaves your machine in the first place.
What happens to your data when you use LM Studio?
LM Studio runs AI models locally on your own machine. Your conversations never leave your computer and are not sent to any server, so there is nothing to collect and nothing to train on. This is about as private as AI gets — you can even disconnect from the internet and it still works.
The Tinkerer's take
“If privacy is the whole point, this is the gold standard. LM Studio runs the AI on your own computer — your words never touch the internet, so there is no company to trust and nothing to opt out of. You can literally pull the network cable and it keeps working. Hard to beat that.”
— The Tinkerer
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