Idåsen Controller vs Liquid Apollo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idåsen Controller
Effortlessly manage your standing desk height. Manually adjust or set custom presets for automatic movement. Integrate with Siri for voice commands and create shortcuts for quick access to favorite positions.
- Manual desk height control
- Automatic movement to saved positions
- Siri command integration
- Favorite preset shortcuts
- Easy desk management
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Control your Idåsen desk easily! Manually control your desk height or move automatically to one of your saved positions. Now you can add commends to Siri, and create shortcuts for your favorite presets!
Liquid Apollo
Access a wide range of AI language models, both locally on your device and through cloud APIs. This app allows you to chat with open-source models, connect to your own hosted LLMs, or utilize services like OpenRouter for broad model access.
- Local LLM support
- OpenRouter integration
- Custom backend connections
- Private AI chat
- Access to open-source models
- Connect to hosted LLMs
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Chat with private, local AI models, connect to every open source AI, or your own locally-hosted private LLMs. Apollo is your own customizable client for accessing language models from all around the web. Local model support (powered by LEAP, a Liquid AI product): run smaller LLMs privately and securely on-device. OpenRouter support: bring an OpenRouter API key to chat with every model on the web. Just sign in by creating an account over at OpenRouter and paste it in to Apollo to access nearly every model, from open source models like Meta Llama 3, to closed source models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4. Custom Backend support: want ChatGPT at home? Run an LLM on your computer with tools like LM Studio or Ollama and connect to it with Apollo to host your own private ChatGPT-like mobile app for your family.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Liquid Apollo at none against Idåsen Controller's 3. Liquid Apollo also leads on ratings volume (599 vs 21). Idåsen Controller's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Idåsen Controller sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Liquid Apollo asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Idåsen Controller against 4.5 for Liquid Apollo. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Liquid Apollo has 599 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 76% of Idåsen Controller's written reviews are positive against 68% of Liquid Apollo's.
Idåsen Controller ships an update every 3 weeks, Liquid Apollo every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on July 25, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idåsen Controller | Liquid Apollo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (21 ratings) | 4.5 (599 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.5% of reviews — better | 68.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 599 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 150 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tiago Alves | Liquid AI, Inc. |
Customer experience
Idåsen Controller
Liquid Apollo
Bugs and requests
Idåsen Controller
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Liquid Apollo
Reported bugs
6 issues- Unable to download Liquid Models
- Deleted locally installed models
- OpenRouter support crashes the app
- Voice list doesn't load all available voices
- Backspace lag leading to unintended text deletion
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- Inconsistent behavior when using code blocks
Requested features
10 requests- Add support for more open-source models (e.g. Gemma 3)
- Implement image generation and upload functionality
- Allow scheduling of asynchronous tasks
- Integrate with Hugging Face model repository
- Provide built-in prompt library
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- Add MCP (Multimodal Conversation Protocol) support
- Enable direct OpenAI API integration
- Improve voice chat functionality
- Add option to delete all chat history
- Implement search and filtering for chat history
In-app purchases
Idåsen Controller
- Donation of $0.99$0.99
- Donation of $2.99$2.99
- Donation of $4.99$4.99
Liquid Apollo
No in-app purchases
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