Comparison

QnAI vs BastionChat

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

Head to head
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QnAI

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BastionChat

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Private AI that runs entirely on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Chat with your documents, get instant summaries and ask out loud, with no internet, no account and no data collected. ASK YOUR DOCUMENTS Import a contract, a manual, a report or a scanned PDF. Ask in your own words and get a clear answer, with the source one tap away, so you can check it instead of trusting it. Small documents are read in full; large libraries are searched. INSTANT SUMMARIES Turn a long file into the key points: parties, dates, amounts, conditions. JUST ASK OUT LOUD Voice mode with on-device speech recognition. Nothing is uploaded. UNDERSTANDS IMAGES Ask about photos and screenshots with vision models. WORKS OFFLINE On a plane, at sea, underground: the AI model lives on your device, so it keeps working. In airplane mode, web tools are simply not offered. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. Your documents and conversations never leave the device. Apple's privacy label: Data Not Collected. Lock the app with Face ID using iOS's built-in app protection. YOUR CHOICE OF MODEL A curated catalog of open models (Qwen, Gemma, Phi, LFM and more) sized for your device: fast ones on iPhone, larger ones on iPad and Mac. Or import any GGUF model from Hugging Face. FOR POWER USERS Adjustable thinking (Off, Short, Full), calculator, optional web search, MCP tools for agent workflows. ONE PURCHASE No subscription, no usage limits, Family Sharing. Download a model once, then everything runs locally. Requires iOS 18 or later. Larger models need more memory; the app recommends what fits your device.

Screenshots

QnAI4 screens
BastionChat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: QnAI at Free against BastionChat's $4.99. QnAI also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

QnAI is free to download; BastionChat costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

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QnAI versus BastionChat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQnAIBastionChat
PriceFree โ€” better$4.99
Update frequencyโ€”Every 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size73 MB79 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperHYUNWOO LEEFrederic Ayala Heinrich

In-app purchases

None

QnAI

No in-app purchases

None

BastionChat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QnAI free?
QnAI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BastionChat free?
BastionChat costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do QnAI or BastionChat have ads?
Neither QnAI nor BastionChat shows ads.

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