Vanish Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.0% of reviews
Neutral11.1% of reviews
Negative experience38.9% of reviews

~ Based on 18 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Vanish Safe?

Vanish - Private AI appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Vanish is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 201 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 200 App Store ratings for Vanish.

Is Vanish Legit?

Vanish - Private AI appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Vanish is 68/100.

Based on 68 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Without a trace

Really like that your Q & A history isn’t confusing you- everyday is a new data!

Good concept… outdated models

Love the concept but the models are very outdated, adding MiMo-V2.6 Pro, Kimi K3, Deepseek 4.1/4.1 flash, GLM 5.3/5.3 flash would make a huge difference. I would be happy to update my rating if the app gets updated.

Settings page broken

The settings page is broken and doesn’t allow me to edit any settings or billing

Thieves

You click on free 7 day trial and they immediately charge your account. No free trial. They do not respond to messages.

Top, aber zu teuer

Alles wie es sein müsste, die Preise sind für private aber zu hoch für meinen Geschmack. Zugänge zu Wissen sollten günstig sein.

App is using ancient versions

I have the annual subscription and when doing some more looking I found this.

The app says it’s using ChatGPT 5.2, but when you ask the bot what version it is you get,
I’m ChatGPT running on OpenAI’s **GPT-4.1** family of models.

The app says it’s using Claude Haiku 4.5, but when you ask the bot what version it is you get
I'm Claude 3.5 Sonnet, made by Anthropic.

These are ancient models. This is deceptive in my mind. One star rating is being generous. Hey Apple, how bout a refund.
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Eigentlich gut gedacht

Eigentlich ist die App gut gedacht.

Anonymes KI-Surfen, ohne dass die Daten auf amerikanischen oder chinesischen Servern personalisiert gespeichert werden. Nur ist es ein bisschen blöd, dass man entweder ein wöchentliches Abo von 7€ oder ein einjähriges Programm für 60€ kaufen soll. Da frage ich mich, wie man sowas als Schüler bezahlen soll. Sollte Datenschutz nicht für jede Altersstufe verfügbar sein? Es gibt ja die Funktion anonym andere KI-Modelle zu verwenden. Aber könnte man das auch nicht mit den kostenlosen Programmen jeder KI-Modelle machen? Warum nur die kostenpflichtigen? Da ich schon gute Erfahrungen mit Startpage gemacht habe, habe ich Hoffnung, dass diese App sich auch noch machen wird.
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It’s good but could use more features

It’s good but could use more features like actually making images instead of prompts

Gut

Gute App mit sicherem Gefühl. Jedoch fehlt mir der Bildupload.

Coole Idee

Aber Potenzial nach oben

Upload von Bildern zulassen

Lizenz über mehrere Geräte im gleichen Account zulassen

Chats geräteübergreifend via iCloud syncen.
Ggf mit Verschlüsselungen arbeiten

Daher aktuell nur drei Sterne.

Aber die Idee Datenschutzfreundlich zu handeln unterstütze ich zu 100%

Brilliant AI

This AI app works tremendously well and I can even get it on my desktop mac. I am concerned for the excessive encroachment of the surveillance that is happening across the world. So I love that it is private because that gives me the confidence that my questions and interactions are being kept private and are not being linked to me. I also use their Startpage search engine, as well as their private encrypted email platform, StartMail. This is a great trustworthy company who supports internet freedom and privacy, and has for years. They added ChatGPT and I am excited for their future improvements as well.
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Love the idea but it has some bugs.

I’m on the latest version of iOS 26.2.1 The app works, however, it’s really slow on startup and after closing the app I have to go through the onboarding screen again. I sent support an email a few days ago, but I guess it didn’t make it in this update or they can’t reproduce it. Never received a reply, so who knows…
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Response from developer

Good news: we released a fix for this! Thank you for giving our app a try and for caring about privacy.

Love it but

I love it but it needs image creation for me to be able to get off ChatGPT

This is as private an AI chat can get

Hands down (Unless you d.i.y. of course)

Yep

Great. Go Netherlands!

Trash

Another app that controls what you can get by perplexity or chatgpt by charging a subscription... What a joke

The best

Бесплатно+лучшие модели+локально на телефоне для приватности, также маленький вес приложения - проще говоря топ. Надеюсь в дальнейшем не сделаете сервис приватным и с какими то ограничениями, а так супер!

Love it

Love that it gives access to multiple ai models. It’s like using llms on incognito mode. And disabling chat history adds some peace of mind.