Comparison

Cloakasium vs Ari Helper

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cloakasium

This app securely stores and manages all your passwords using strong encryption, keeping your data entirely on your device. It offers organized folder structures, biometric login, and data masking for enhanced privacy. Sync across Apple devices and import/export data from other managers.

Highlights
  • On-device data storage
  • AES-256 encryption
  • Biometric login (Touch ID/Face ID)
  • Data masking
  • Group and category organization
  • iCloud sync
  • CSV import/export
Features
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Cloakasium is a secure modern password manager that works with iPhone®, iPad®, Apple Watch®, and Mac®. SUMMARY · Cloakasium protects and manages all your password data securely using modern strong encryption algorithms (AES-256). · Cloakasium keeps all your password data and information on your device, not a server. · With Cloakasium, you only need to remember the main app login password instead of trying to remember lots of passwords and user information. You can also use Touch ID® or Face ID® for app login. · To help provide security with using Cloakasium in a public area, your data can be masked, either app-wide or individually. DESIGN FEATURES · Data is organized as items within two folder levels: groups (teal color) and categories (gold color). · Items contain your detailed information such as user names, passwords, and account numbers in its records and notes. · You can have any number of records within an item, items within a category, categories within a group, or groups. · While in edit mode, records can be created, modified, re-ordered or deleted. Items can be renamed. Groups and Categories can be created or re-selected. · Manage groups, categories and items. Create, rename, or delete groups or categories. Move categories to another group or multiple items to another category. An excellent way to organize your data after importing from another password manager app. · Synchronize content across devices sharing a common iCloud® account · Create encrypted backup files from Cloakasium and restore from those files on any of your devices. · Import CSV format data files from other password managers: 1Password™, BitWarden™, LastPass™, Keeper, or DataVault. · Export the app data to an unencrypted CSV file. · Create a second password for a trusted person to access Cloakasium in the case of a forgotten primary password or in the event of an emergency. · Use Cloakasium on Apple Watch®.

About

Ari Helper

This AI assistant operates entirely offline, prioritizing user privacy by not collecting personal data. It integrates with Siri for hands-free activation and offers text-to-speech capabilities. Users can manage conversations, download custom models, and even interact with self-hosted or cloud-based AI services.

Highlights
  • Offline AI operation
  • Siri and App Intents integration
  • Privacy-focused, no data collection
  • Text-to-Speech with voice options
  • Conversation history sync via iCloud
  • Downloadable custom AI models
  • Code syntax highlighting
Features
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Introducing Ari - Your Easy-to-Use AI Assistant! Meet Ari, your personal AI assistant, right on your device! Ari runs its models on the device itself, so it works entirely offline — no internet connection required. Your privacy is our priority – Ari doesn't collect any of your personal data. Start Ari anywhere with Siri and App Intents — just say "Ask Ari," speak your question, and hear the answer back. Power users get a full Shortcuts catalog: Ask Ari with any model (Apple Intelligence, local, or cloud), start chats, generate and edit images, analyze PDFs, speak replies, change settings, queue Code Session tasks on Mac, and dispatch prompts to other devices — all chainable in Shortcuts. Ari is on your wrist too: the Apple Watch app remote-controls Ari on iPhone. Dictate from the "Ask Ari" complication or Smart Stack, watch answers stream in, hear them spoken, and hand long replies to iPhone. Questions queue when the phone is away; private chats stay off the watch. Conversations show up in Spotlight — including by what's in their images. Ari reads text and objects in chat pictures on-device so you can search for "that screenshot with the receipt". Private media is never indexed. With Sensitive Content Warning on, flagged images blur behind "Show Anyway" (verified adults can opt out). More to love: Text-to-Speech (device voice or Ava); long-press to copy or retry across models; syntax highlighting with one-tap code copy; Previous Chats synced via iCloud. On Apple Intelligence (iOS 26 / macOS 26 and later), Ari uses the on-device foundation model by default — private, no API key, no network. Attach images: on iOS 27 and macOS 27 the model sees them directly; on OS 26 Ari describes them on-device with the Vision framework (text, tables, barcodes, subjects). Prefer full vision models? Pick one from the menu. Download on-device models with a tap — Google's Gemma 4 for chat, Stable Diffusion converted for Core ML for pictures — or import a model folder of your own. Self-host with Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible server (LM Studio, vLLM, llama.cpp, LiteLLM), or generate images with Draw Things over gRPC. New in Ari 7: Ari makes pictures and films, and repairs the ones you already have. Films is a studio — write a film as a list of shots, render them one at a time, keep the ones that work, and watch the cut come together in a player above the timeline. Pictures get a canvas editor: brush over a crease and heal it, paint a leash or a stranger out of the frame, or treat the whole photograph — repair, denoise, sharpen camera shake, colorize, upscale four times. Every restoration model runs on your device and downloads on first use rather than shipping in the app. Point the camera at something and ask about it. Look at Something sends the frame to whichever model you have selected — on-device, self-hosted or cloud — captions the answer under the picture and speaks it if you like. Talk to it and it listens, answers, then listens again. It sits beside the microphone, and goes on the Lock Screen, Control Center, the Action Button or Siri. Cloud providers with your own keys: OpenAI (GPT-6 and GPT-5 families plus GPT Image), xAI Grok (4.7 plus Grok Imagine), Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini (plus Nano Banana and Omni video), and AWS Bedrock. Image-capable models accept photos; import text and source files. Cloud use reminds you each provider's privacy policy applies. On Mac, open a Code Session on a project folder with Grok for agentic tools — read, edit, search, git, shell, browser, web, and MCP — so Ari's GUI agent matches a terminal coding agent. Note: For strongest privacy with iCloud sync, enable Advanced Data Protection. Without it, conversations stay limited to your iCloud account but are not fully end-to-end encrypted. Optionally powered by Gemma 4 (HuggingFace) for offline chat and image understanding. Download Ari and keep your AI assistant at your fingertips!

Screenshots

Cloakasium4 screens
Ari Helper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cloakasium at $0.99 against Ari Helper's $24.99. Cloakasium also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Ari Helper's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On rating, review sentiment, ads and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Cloakasium costs $0.99 and Ari Helper $24.99 up front. Cloakasium sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ari Helper asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cloakasium against 5.0 for Ari Helper. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cloakasium ships an update every 3 months, Ari Helper weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Cloakasium versus Ari Helper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCloakasiumAri Helper
Price$0.99 — better$24.99
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB92 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperChamplin Technologies LLCBlaine Miller

Customer experience

Cloakasium

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ari Helper

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cloakasium

One-time1
  • Pro-tools Upgrade$9.99
None

Ari Helper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cloakasium free?
Cloakasium costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Ari Helper free?
Ari Helper costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cloakasium or Ari Helper?
Cloakasium and Ari Helper are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Cloakasium or Ari Helper have ads?
Neither Cloakasium nor Ari Helper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cloakasium or Ari Helper?
Cloakasium ships an update every 3 months, and Ari Helper weekly. Most recently, Cloakasium was updated on October 15, 2026 and Ari Helper on October 24, 2026.

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