DeepChat vs On‑Device AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DeepChat
This AI assistant app integrates over 100 leading AI models for chat, writing, coding, translation, and visual understanding. It offers web-connected search, thought process transparency, and organized conversations with automatic sync across devices.
- 100 AI models in one app
- Web-connected search
- Visual understanding
- Thought process transparency
- Organized conversations
- Automatic sync across devices
- Chat with PDFs
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DeepChat is your all-in-one AI assistant and creative partner, unifying chat, writing, coding, translation, search, and multimodal understanding. 100 models in one app with a consistent experience and content management. With industry-leading model capabilities and online retrieval across all models, you get answers and content that are faster, more accurate, and trustworthy. ## Core Features - One app, 100 models: Use 100 models in a single app and switch on demand for general, reasoning, coding, vision, and more. - Web-connected search: Every model can browse and retrieve authoritative, up-to-date information, aggregating multiple sources to greatly improve accuracy and timeliness. - Visual understanding: Upload images for visual Q&A, chart and flowchart analysis, and understanding screenshots or documents with key-point extraction. - Thought process transparency: Clearly presents reasoning paths and evidence for answers for more control and trust. - Simple and effortless: Powerful capabilities with a minimalist interface. Works great out of the box. - Organized conversations: Edit, reorder, and pin chats so important content is always at hand. - Automatic sync: We value your privacy and convenience. Real-time sync across devices keeps everything seamless. ## More Capabilities - Chat with PDFs and more: Extract key points, generate summaries and Q&A for faster study and work. - Preset or custom roles: One-tap switching for writing, coding, product, operations, and more. - Best-in-class speech synthesis: Natural, expressive voices for many use cases. - Forgetting divider: One tap to change topics and reset context to keep chats focused. - Voice input: Highly accurate speech-to-text to capture ideas anytime. - Markdown rendering: Better formatting for improved reading and sharing. - Token usage: Clear, detailed accounting of usage and costs. ## Use Cases - Learning and research: Information retrieval, reading comprehension, key point/exam point summaries, and note generation. - Writing and creation: Topic ideation, outlines, polishing, rewriting, and style transfer. - Programming and engineering: Code assistant, debugging hints, technical designs, and documentation. - Business and office: Emails, reports, proposals, meeting minutes, and action lists. - Multimodal understanding: Structured analysis and key-point extraction for screenshots, charts, and photos. ## Policies - Privacy Policy: https://deepchat.app/privacy - Terms of Service: https://deepchat.app/terms
On‑Device AI
Transform your device into a private AI assistant for meetings and complex tasks. Features include speaker diarization, live transcription, and specialized subagents for research, analysis, and writing. Control your AI via messaging apps, with options for 100% offline processing or cloud connectivity.
- Speaker Diarization for meeting transcripts
- Real-time live transcription
- Natural AI speech generation
- Deploy specialized AI subagents
- AI-powered web browser automation
- Control AI via messaging apps
- 100% offline processing option
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On-Device AI puts chat, listening, transcription, notes, and research in one private app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. Your data stays on your device. Download a model once and keep working on a plane, on the subway, or without a signal. Chats, documents, recordings, and notes stay on your device. Online providers and web features are optional and work only after you enable them. ONE APP, YOUR WAY Open every workspace from a customizable Menu. Keep favorites under Pinned and everything else close by under Available. AI CHAT Chat with local or cloud models. • Run local models from families such as Gemma, Qwen, DeepSeek, and Mistral, or connect your own provider account • Browse, download, and manage models that fit your device, including ones for text, vision, reasoning, and tools • Drop in documents, images, and scanned PDFs; approve private on-device OCR only when a PDF needs it • Fork any conversation and compare several models on the same prompt • Let the model use tools for calculations, web requests, documents, Calendar, and Reminders, and review proposed changes before they apply • Create reusable Agent Profiles, then add AI Skills, MCP servers, and tools from one clearer Agent Workflows setup • Keep facts you repeat often in Global Memory LISTEN LIBRARY AND RSS FEEDS Read less, listen more. • Turn PDFs, Markdown, plain text, web articles, and scanned books into a listening queue • Scan photographed pages, correct the OCR the app runs on device, and keep each page with its spoken text • Follow sites through RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds, then send articles to Up Next • Choose Apple voices or local neural voices, follow along in the reader, and set a sleep timer VOICE NOTE, VOICE TYPING, AND TEXT TO SPEECH Speak instead of typing, and listen instead of reading. • Record and transcribe meetings, lectures, interviews, and quick ideas • Dictate with Voice Typing on Mac or the voice keyboard on iPhone and iPad • Transcribe with Apple Speech, Whisper, Parakeet, Nemotron, Qwen3-ASR, MOSS, and other engines • Turn text, or text captured from a photo, into audio with Apple voices, Kokoro, Supertonic, VoxCPM2, IndexTTS2, and other engines • Export transcripts as text, subtitles, or Markdown AI SEARCH AND AI BROWSER Research with a second pair of hands. • Search the web in a conversation and let the model read the results for you • Browse with tabs, profiles, history, and downloads, then ask your model to read, assist, or act on the page • Hand a task to the browser agent, watch each step, and take over whenever you want KNOWLEDGE AND TEXT NOTE Give your AI your own material to work from. • Add PDFs, text, Markdown, code, images, and website content to a private searchable library • Write and edit Markdown notes in the app • Import AI chats, voice notes, Text to Speech items, and AI Search results • Tune retrieval and index edited content again APP HELP Ask how a feature or setting works. App Help answers from a guide that ships inside the app, keeps help out of your saved chats, and points to the right settings. MADE FOR APPLE DEVICES • Native layouts adapt from focused navigation on iPhone to category sidebars on larger screens • Settings are grouped by purpose, including Voice Typing, Agent Workflows, Models & Storage, Privacy & Data, Memory, and—on Mac—Instant Messaging • Widgets for Listen, Voice Note, Text Note, and Quick Actions • Siri, Apple Shortcuts, App Intents, the Mac menu bar, and keyboard shortcuts you can customize • Apple hardware acceleration for supported local models • Browse chat, transcription, speech, and embedding models in one Model Library • Store models internally, on an external drive, or on a shared volume, with separate tools for cleanup and recovery • Interface in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Traditional Chinese EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: On‑Device AI at 4.4 against DeepChat's 4.0. On‑Device AI also leads on ratings volume (163 vs 20). DeepChat's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. DeepChat sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and On‑Device AI sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On‑Device AI holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: On‑Device AI has 163 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of DeepChat's written reviews are positive against 64% of On‑Device AI's.
DeepChat ships an update every 4 days, On‑Device AI fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DeepChat | On‑Device AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (20 ratings) | 4.4 (163 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.9% of reviews | 63.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 163 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 1.8 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 飞 杨 | Zijie Deng |
Customer experience
DeepChat
On‑Device AI
Bugs and requests
DeepChat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
On‑Device AI
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on startup
- Model selection issues
- Inability to copy generated text
Requested features
9 requests- Automated multi-character conversations
- Character set saving and syncing
- Streamlined search integration
- UI optimization for icons
- Remote endpoint support for multi-agents
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- HomeKit integration
- Improved documentation
- Enlarged agent input window
- Per-agent model assignment
In-app purchases
DeepChat
- Premium$4.997 Days
- Premium$9.991 Month
- Premium$69.991 Year
- Compute Points Package$19.99
On‑Device AI
- Pro Member Subscription$3.991 Month
- Pro Member Subscription$34.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro Member$49.99
- Lifetime Pro Member$99.99









