Samurai Search vs Ethosum LOOM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Samurai Search
Efficiently search text and PDF files across your device, iCloud, and external storage. Preview matched files or open them in other applications. Supports advanced search options like regular expressions.
- Search text and PDF files
- iCloud and external storage support
- File preview
- Regular expression support
- Customizable file types
- Saved search locations
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Search your iOS device or iCloud for text, source code, plain text files, and PDFs. Find matches inside files and preview results instantly, or open any matched file in your favourite editing or viewing app. Flexible search options: whole word, case sensitive (all file types), and regular expressions (for text files). Choose which files to include by selecting standard or custom text file types, or by searching filenames that match a pattern. Select where to search from On My iPad, iCloud Drive, or external file providers such as SMB and USB folders. When possible, the app retains saved search selections so you can quickly repeat the same searches later. If you search selected folders in iCloud Drive, matching iCloud files are synced to your device before searching, ensuring fast local results. Searching plain text files is extremely fast and memory efficient. PDF search speed depends on the document content and can be slow. Note also that PDF search may consume large amounts of memory which can cause Samurai Search to crash.
Ethosum LOOM
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LOOM is a personal AI system built around you. It goes beyond answering questions. What LOOM learns about you can become part of systems you actually use—where your needs, abilities, current state, progress, and real-world results help shape how the system evaluates, responds, and moves forward. LOOM begins with vocabulary learning. Start with a learning need and build a vocabulary system of your own. LOOM takes your goals, abilities, and current learning state into account to shape daily learning and review, while ongoing assessments help reveal what you know, where you hesitate, and what may need more attention. Results do not disappear after a test. LOOM brings together your progress, learning state, history, and actual performance to produce summaries, explanations, and recommendations. Its conclusions are grounded in real evidence, so you can see not only what it recommends, but why. As you change, the system reevaluates what matters, the pace, and what should come next. It keeps what still works and recommends changes when they are needed, allowing your learning system to stay aligned with where you are now. This is more than a one-off AI response. It is a learning system built to keep running, adapting, and becoming increasingly your own. As you use LOOM, it develops a more distinct understanding of you—how you think, what matters to you, and how you prefer to explore ideas. The result is a private AI with continuity, memory, and personality: one that feels less generic, more personal, and increasingly aligned with you. LOOM is designed to help you build your own private AI layer, while also expanding the depth and breadth of your thinking. It can help you explore ideas from new angles, organize complex thoughts, refine plans, and continue meaningful lines of reflection with greater clarity. Whether you are thinking, planning, writing, reflecting, or making everyday decisions, LOOM is built to support a more continuous relationship between you and your AI—one shaped by trust, context, and long-term understanding. Key features include: • Long-term memory across conversations • Personalized context shaped by your interactions • A distinct AI personality that evolves over time • Continuity across thinking, planning, and writing • Support for expanding the depth and breadth of your thoughts • A private system-layer experience built around you • Optional subscription for enhanced capabilities LOOM is intended as a personal AI productivity and reflection tool. It does not provide medical, legal, financial, or professional advice, and it should not replace human judgment. Your information is handled according to our privacy policy, and you remain in control of your data and account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Samurai Search at none against Ethosum LOOM's 1. Samurai Search also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Ethosum LOOM sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. Samurai Search asks for nothing beyond the download.
Samurai Search ships an update every 5 days, Ethosum LOOM every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Samurai Search | Ethosum LOOM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (25 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Michael Rourke | Beijing Yongtai Ruiyang Technology Co., Ltd. |
In-app purchases
Samurai Search
No in-app purchases
Ethosum LOOM
- Ethosum Power Plan$19.991 Month
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