Comparison

Balsio vs Buzz

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

Head to head
About

Balsio

This professional chat application helps you keep work conversations separate from personal life. It allows communication with colleagues and external contacts using only work emails, fostering focused productivity and cross-organizational collaboration.

Highlights
  • Separate work and personal conversations
  • Chat using work email only
  • Connect across companies
  • Collaborate with clients and partners
  • Interoperability with WhatsApp (select regions)
Features
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Balsio – A chat app for work conversations Work messages often end up in the apps we use with friends and family. Balsio gives work conversations a separate place. With Balsio, you can: - Message anyone using their work email. No phone numbers needed. - Keep work and personal messages in separate apps. - Keep all your team's chats in one shared workspace. Invite a new person once, and they can join any team chat they need. - Talk with people outside your company: clients, partners, and suppliers. They do not have to join your team. - Message your WhatsApp contacts without leaving Balsio (available in the European Economic Area, where contacts have enabled third-party chats). - Organize chats into lists by project or client, reply in threads, and snooze chats or mark them as done. Tools like Slack and Teams are for conversations inside your company. Balsio is for your team and for the people outside your company: clients, partners, and suppliers. If you have used a personal chat app before, Balsio will feel familiar.

About

Buzz

Collaborate with both humans and AI agents in shared workspaces. Every interaction is logged for a transparent audit trail, ensuring a unified identity model for all participants. Agents can actively participate in channels, not just communicate.

Highlights
  • Human and AI agent collaboration
  • Shared rooms and channels
  • Signed event log with audit trail
  • Agents acting in workspace
  • Organized channels and threads
  • Image and media discussion
Features
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Buzz is a workspace where humans and AI agents share the same rooms. Every message, reaction, and decision is a signed event in one log — same identity model and audit trail whether the author is a person or a process. Add an agent to a channel the same way you add a teammate. Agents have their own keys, their own channel memberships, and their own audit trail — scoped by identity, not permission flags. • Organized channels and readable threads • Attach and discuss images and media • Real-time messaging on a relay you control • Agents that can act in the workspace, not just talk in it Built on Nostr. Self-hostable. The relay is yours.

Screenshots

Balsio4 screens
Buzz4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Balsio at 5.0 against Buzz's 4.2. Balsio also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 59%) and device support (3 vs 1). Buzz's advantage is ratings volume (64 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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

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

Balsio holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buzz has 64 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Balsio's written reviews are positive against 59% of Buzz's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Balsio ships an update weekly, Buzz every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Balsio versus Buzz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBalsioBuzz
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.2 (64 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better59.0% of reviews
Number of ratings164 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB66 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperFyello Productivity SIABlock, Inc.

Customer experience

Balsio

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Buzz

All ratings64 ratings
Positive76.6%
Neutral7.8%
Negative15.6%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive59.0%
Neutral23.1%
Negative17.9%

In-app purchases

None

Balsio

No in-app purchases

None

Buzz

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Balsio free?
Balsio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Buzz free?
Buzz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Balsio or Buzz?
Balsio is rated higher. Balsio averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Buzz averages 4.2 from 64 ratings.
Do Balsio or Buzz have ads?
Neither Balsio nor Buzz shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Balsio or Buzz?
Balsio ships an update weekly, and Buzz every 4 days. Most recently, Balsio was updated on October 24, 2026 and Buzz on October 25, 2026.

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