Comparison

Glean Work vs Brevn

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

Head to head
About

Glean Work

This AI-powered assistant helps you manage work tasks, find information, and automate workflows across your company's connected applications. It provides personalized support for planning your day, running meetings, and staying updated on company and industry news.

Highlights
  • AI-powered work assistant
  • Personalized daily planning
  • Meeting preparation and summaries
  • Company and industry news updates
  • AI agent creation for workflows
  • Connects with 100+ workplace apps
Features
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Get AI for work- wherever work takes you. Get the latest project updates, prepare for meetings, find experts, and keep up with company and industry news with Glean’s assistant-first mobile experience. Stay on top of all your work, from one application. Work with an expert by your side: Enterprise assistant that is personalized to you, helping you plan your day, run meetings, find information, draft and summarize content, and more. Know what your company knows instantly: Bring enterprise and world knowledge to every decision you make- just simply ask the Glean Assistant. Automate your work with AI agents: Everyone can create agents using natural language. Turn any idea into an AI-powered workflow. — Glean connects with 100+ popular workplace apps like Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Salesforce and more. Use this app if you have an account created by your company admin.

About

Brevn

This app helps you identify your peak focus times and optimize your work sessions. It learns your personal productivity patterns and allows you to quickly log distractions or insights during a session. Advanced features include experiments to test focus-enhancing factors.

Highlights
  • Personalized focus time identification
  • One-tap session start
  • Distraction logging
  • Session insights and patterns
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Experimental focus testing (Pro)
Features
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Brevn is a calm focus timer that learns when you focus best. Start a session in one tap. When it ends, answer two quick questions: how absorbed were you, and did you get done what you meant to? After a few sessions, Brevn shows which hours, session lengths and break rhythms rate highest for you, from your own sessions and nobody else's. FIND YOUR SHARP HOURS See the time of day your focus is usually at its best, and how sure Brevn is about it. When there isn't enough data yet, or the difference is too small to matter, Brevn says so instead of guessing. PARK A STRAY THOUGHT Something pops into your head mid-session? Write it down in a line and carry on. The timer never stops. Your parked thoughts wait for you at the end, and you can do it from the Lock Screen or with Siri too. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Leave yourself one line at the end of a session. Brevn hands it back the next time you start on the same thing. START FROM ANYWHERE Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Siri, Shortcuts, Control Center, the Action Button and Apple Watch. TEST A HUNCH IN THE LAB (Brevn Pro) Does music help? Coffee first? Phone in another room? Brevn assigns each day a condition at random and tells you whether the difference is real. It's the only part of Brevn that tells you what causes what; everything else shows patterns. SLEEP, CAFFEINE AND HEART RATE Log a coffee with a tap. If you allow it, Brevn reads your sleep, HRV and resting heart rate from Apple Health and sets them beside your sessions. CALM BY DESIGN No streaks. No celebrations. No ads. Nothing to set up before you start, and no account needed. Your sessions stay on your phone unless you sign in to keep them in your Brevn account across your devices. BREVN PRO Free: the timer, every way to start, check-ins, your time-of-day pattern, quick-read experiments and the Paper theme. Pro: every finding (session length, breaks, sleepiness) with suggestions, the Lab, calendar holds for your sharp hour, drafting experiments and reading back your own words with Apple Intelligence (on supported devices), and the Midnight, Sage and Sand themes. Brevn Pro is available as a monthly or annual subscription (the annual plan starts with a one-month free trial). Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hyperfocusedengineer.github.io/brevn/privacy-policy.html Brevn is a productivity tool, not a medical device.

Screenshots

Glean Work3 screens
Brevn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Brevn at every 5 days against Glean Work's every 5 weeks. Brevn also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Glean Work's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (69 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Brevn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Glean Work has 69 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Glean Work ships an update every 5 weeks, Brevn every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Glean Work versus Brevn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlean WorkBrevn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (69 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings69 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.016.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGlean WorkHarsha Hassan Somashekara

Customer experience

Glean Work

All ratings68 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative23.5%

Brevn

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Glean Work

No in-app purchases

None

Brevn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Glean Work free?
Glean Work is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brevn free?
Brevn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Glean Work or Brevn?
Brevn is rated higher. Glean Work averages 4.6 out of 5 from 69 ratings, while Brevn averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Glean Work or Brevn have ads?
Neither Glean Work nor Brevn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Glean Work or Brevn?
Glean Work ships an update every 5 weeks, and Brevn every 5 days. Most recently, Glean Work was updated on October 21, 2026 and Brevn on October 24, 2026.

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