nRF Connect for Mobile vs SecureEdge

nRF Connect is a powerful generic tool that allows you to scan and explore your Bluetooth Low Energy (henceforth Bluetooth LE, also called Bluetooth Version 4.0+ of the Bluetooth specification) devices and communicate with them. nRF Connect also allows your iOS device to advertise as a peripheral, with full support of many of Bluetooth SIG adopted profiles. Additionally, nRF Connect supports Nordic Semiconductor’s Device Firmware Update profile (DFU) capabilities, allowing you to update compatible peripherals! + Features: • Supports DFU on all Nordic Semiconducto-powered devices. • Supports Nordic Thingy™ from Nordic Semiconductor. • Scan and discover nearby Bluetooth LE peripherals. • Filter Scanned Peripherals by Name, Manufacturer, Services (Advertised & Connected) and RSSI Level. • Parsing Multiple Formats of Bluetooth LE Advertisement Data. • Live RSSI Chart of Scanned Bluetooth LE Peripherals. • Complete iPad Support, including Multi-Tasking and Mouse Support as of 13.4. • Logs: Including BLE Function calls, and Export Function as CSV and Text. • Privacy-Oriented: Full-Disclosure of Scanned Data, Advertised Data, and User-Performed Actions held by nRF Connect. • Connecting to Any Connectable Bluetooth LE Smart Device. • Discovery of Services, Characteristics and Descriptors. • Read and Write Characteristics and Descriptors. • Enable and Disable Notifications and Indications. • Advertising as a Bluetooth LE Peripheral. • Setting up a Bluetooth LE (Peripheral) Server and Notifying/Indicating back to connected Central(s). • Low-Fat: nRF Connect for iOS is Very Small, so You Can Always Keep Us With You! >= Requirements: • iOS 16.0 and above. - Notes: nRF Connect also works with our Development Kits, which you may acquire online here: https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/buy-online

SecureEdge is a voice-first AI assistant that runs entirely on your iPhone or iPad. Dictate, load documents, and ask questions about sensitive material. The language model runs on the device, so your prompts, documents, transcripts, and answers never leave it. It is built for people who cannot use cloud AI: defense and government users handling controlled unclassified information, defense contractors, allied forces, and any regulated organization on managed Apple devices. WHAT IT DOES • Chat with an open-weight language model with streaming responses, image and document attachments, and true conversation history. • Dictate on device. Speech is transcribed locally, then cleaned up by the model with support for military and technical vocabulary. • Build a document library from PDF, text, RTF, and images with on-device OCR. Everything is encrypted at rest. • Run workflows on any input: Summarize, Key points, Action items, SITREP draft, Extract entities, Formal rewrite, Describe image, and Translate to English. Create your own in the custom workflow editor. • Let long jobs finish on their own. Large inputs run in checkpointed steps that resume after a pause, background expiry, or termination, and a local notification tells you when they are done. • Choose the model that fits your device. Models the hardware cannot run are shown with the reason and cannot be loaded. BUILT FOR MANAGED FLEETS • MDM policy client with fail-closed parsing, so an unreadable policy locks down rather than opens up. • Signed model bundles with Ed25519 manifests and SHA-256 verification. • Hash-chained, tamper-evident audit log with in-app verification and JSON Lines export. • Retention enforcement: per session, 24 hours, 30 days, or indefinite, set by policy. • Admin tooling for signing bundles and generating MDM configuration. HOW MODELS ARRIVE This App Store build can download models from a signed catalog. That download is the only network activity; inference, dictation, documents, and chat never touch a server. Downloaded models can be removed locally at any time. Managed deployments can instead push models through MDM and run with no networking at all. DEVICE REQUIREMENTS The model sets the hardware floor. SecureEdge needs iOS 26 or later and an iPhone 15 or newer with at least 6 GB of memory. iPhone 15 Pro or later, or an iPad with 8 GB, is recommended for the larger and vision-capable models. No account. No analytics. No cloud. Your data stays where you put it. Private policy: https://www.secureedgemobile.com/privacy/ Terms and conditions: https://www.secureedgemobile.com/terms/ Pilot programs and enterprise deployment: visit secureedgemobile.com.