Comparison

Perspective Intelligence vs Cinna

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

Head to head
About

Perspective Intelligence

This AI assistant offers private, on-device capabilities for image description, text recognition, and creative conversations. It helps with drafting, summarizing, and extracting text from images, all while keeping your data secure locally.

Highlights
  • On-device AI processing
  • Text recognition (OCR)
  • AI vision for image description
  • Image generation
  • Live audio transcription
  • Chat memories
  • Apple Watch integration
Features
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Perspective Intelligence brings fast, creative, private, and personal AI to your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Perspective Intelligence includes a suite of on-device capabilities to help you describe images, recognize text, and stay productive. The app uses Apple’s Foundation Models framework along with other built in on-device AI technologies to process requests locally, keeping your information securely on your device. Whether you’re exploring ideas, drafting messages, summarizing content, or capturing text from an image, Perspective Intelligence brings multiple AI components together in a simple, unified experience that exists completely on your device. Creative, Approachable On Device AI Key Features • Full Chat Experience Enjoy natural, responsive conversations in a clean, accessible interface. • Text Recognition (OCR) Extract text from images for documents, notes, and quick everyday tasks. • AI Vision Describe your surroundings with on-device AI vision. Identify text, faces, objects, and colors, all spoken aloud for hands-free use. • Live Video Use AI models to describe the world around you in real-time. • Image Generation Create images your conversations based on Image Playgrounds. Everything happens on device • Live Audio Transcription Convert live spoken audio into clear, readable text. • Chat Memories Teach Perspective Intelligence to know more about you. • AI on Apple Watch Chat with Perspective Intelligence from your Apple Watch for basic chats. • Saved Prompts Save your favorite prompts that you use often. • Local & Private All features rely on on-device processing through Apple’s Foundation Models framework and related system technologies. Your data never leaves your device. Some tools may connect to outside services for weather lookup and web search, but this can be completely configured. All AI processing remains on device. Perspective Intelligence All Access (Subscription Features) Unlock additional tools with our Perspective Intelligence All Access: • Voice Mode Engage in hands-free, real-time voice conversations. • Contacts Lookup Use Perspective Intelligence to find information from your contacts including contact photos. • Points of Interest Search take advantage of on device AI to search for points of interest from the maps app. • Reminders Integration Look up and get suggestions from reminders added in the Reminders app. • Weather Look up weather conditions for your current location or for anywhere in the world. • RSS Feed Search Add your favorite RSS feeds and get updates on news sources. • Web Search Perspective Intelligence can search the web to find updated information than what's included with the built in AI. All web searches are kept private and can be disabled in Settings. • Deep Research Use a combination of web search and the model to find information online. The agent will even show what sources were used. • Page Summary Summarize any web page by giving Perspective Intelligence a URL to review. • Email Composition Perspective Intelligence can now open the email composer and add generated emails from your conversations. • Custom User Agents Change the chat experience by creating your own custom personas that can have their own personalities. • Speak Tool Save text to spoken audio within chat. Perspective Intelligence All Access pricing: • Monthly - $5.99 USD • Annual - $49.99 USD View the Perspective Intelligence Privacy Policy at: https://techopolisonline.com/perspective-apps-privacy-policy Perspective Intelligence and Perspective: Intelligence All Access uses the Standard End User License Agreement, which can be found at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Perspective Intelligence uses on-device Foundation Models and requires: • iOS 26 or later • iPadOS 26 or later • WatchOS 26 or later • An Apple Intelligence enabled device for use with Apple Foundation Models

About

Cinna

Features
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Cinna — Your AI, Your Agents Cinna is a privacy-first AI client that puts you in control. Bring your own provider keys and chat with the world's top AI models — no app subscription, no middleman. Your keys stay on your device, in the secure keychain. Orchestrate many agents and tools in one chat This is where Cinna goes beyond a simple chatbot. Combine multiple AI agents and tool servers in a single conversation and let a model conduct them for you. Ask once, and Cinna plans the work, calls each agent and tool as needed, and weaves their results into one coherent answer — every reasoning step and tool call visible, or neatly folded away. Watch delegated agents work in their own expandable sub-threads, all within the same chat. Bring your own AI Connect your own API keys for leading providers and pick the exact model you want. No lock-in, no usage markup — you pay your provider directly, and Cinna never touches your data. Unlock custom-built agents with a self-hosted Cinna server Connect your own self-hosted Cinna server to bring your custom A2A agents, MCP tool servers, and published agent bundles into the app. Browse a catalog and install agents in a tap, track their live status, and keep them up to date — all from your phone. Turn complex workflows into one-tap jobs Save an entire orchestrated process as a reusable job and run it with a single tap. A job can chain multiple MCP tools and AI agents into one automated workflow — the same multi-agent orchestration that powers your chats, captured once and repeatable on demand. Run it locally on your device or hand it off to your Cinna server as a task, and review the full run history every time. Organize jobs into folders so your most powerful workflows are always one click away. Built-in notes Keep markdown notes organized in folders and attach them straight into a chat to give your models and agents exactly the context they need. Private by design Your provider keys live in your device keychain. Your chats, notes, and jobs are stored on-device — your data stays yours. Why Cinna • Chat with any top AI model using your own keys • Orchestrated multi-agent, multi-tool conversations • One-tap jobs: complex tool-and-agent workflows, automated • A2A agents and MCP tools, including your own custom builds • Notes built in to enrich every conversation • No app subscription — pay only your provider • Privacy-first: keys and data stay yours

Screenshots

Perspective Intelligence4 screens
Cinna4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cinna at none against Perspective Intelligence's 2. Cinna also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price 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. Perspective Intelligence sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Cinna asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Perspective Intelligence versus Cinna: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPerspective IntelligenceCinna
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (18 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size113 MB41 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperTechopolis Online Solutions, LLCEvgenii Leksunin

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Perspective Intelligence

Subscriptions2
  • All Access Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • All Access Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

Cinna

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Perspective Intelligence free?
Perspective Intelligence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cinna free?
Cinna is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Perspective Intelligence or Cinna have ads?
Perspective Intelligence shows ads; Cinna does not.

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