Comparison

Thinking AI Chat vs Just Nod

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

Head to head
About

Thinking AI Chat

Read full description

Introducing Thinking AI Chat, a cutting-edge AI Chat app brought to you by Thinking Technology Ltd. This app leverages the powerful GPT model from Azure platform, offering users an unparalleled chat experience. User can use the App to chat with GPT model over iPhone.

About

Just Nod

Features
Read full description

A private AI chat app for your iPhone. Just Nod is a small on-device AI you can talk to. Open the app, type or speak, and have a real conversation. Whatever you talk about stays on your phone. Every word stays on your iPhone. There are no servers receiving your conversations, no accounts to create, no analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs. Nod has no backend. There's nothing to leak, nothing to delete, no API key to revoke. โ€” OPEN AND TYPE No onboarding, no setup, no sign-in. Open the app and start. The replies are warm and unhurried โ€” Nod is built to be a calm conversation partner, not a tool that rushes to answer. โ€” RUNS WHEN YOU CAN'T CONNECT Apple Intelligence runs the moment you install. The full conversation happens on the same chip that renders this text. No network required. On a plane, in a tunnel, on a trail with one bar โ€” Nod still works. โ€” FOUR ON-DEVICE ENGINES Apple's own foundation model is the default, so Nod works the second you open it. Prefer open weights? Switch in settings to Qwen 3 Instruct, Qwen 3.5 4B, or Gemma 4 E2B via MLX Swift. The weights download once over Wi-Fi, then run on your phone forever. โ€” REMEMBERS WHAT MATTERS After each conversation, Nod picks up the details that come up โ€” the people you mention, what you're working on, recurring topics. Browse them in the sidebar. Swipe any one away. Tap "Start fresh" to wipe the whole thing. No profile builds up in a data center somewhere, because there is no data center. โ€” OR JUST TALK Tap the mic and speak. A warm orange glow hugs the edge of the screen while Nod listens. It commits when you pause. Transcription runs entirely on-device using iOS 26's SpeechAnalyzer โ€” what you say never leaves your phone, not even for speech-to-text. โ€” MAKE IT YOURS Two quiet pickers and a free-form field shape how Nod talks to you. Shorter or deeper, more direct or more curious. Add a line about yourself and Nod tucks it into every response. โ€” KEEP IT YOURS Turn on Require Face ID and the whole app sits behind biometric auth. Nobody else gets in โ€” not a partner glancing at your phone, not a friend passing it around. โ€” OPEN SOURCE Nod is MIT-licensed. Every line of Swift, every system prompt, every database migration is on GitHub. If "trust us" bothers you, verify us. REQUIREMENTS Requires iPhone with Apple Intelligence support โ€” iOS 26.0 or later. Works instantly on Apple's on-device model. If you switch to an open-weights engine in settings, Nod downloads the selected model once (2โ€“3 GB, Wi-Fi by default). Just Nod is a chat app for everyday conversation, not professional advice. Made by Speculative Dynamics. Open source on GitHub.

Screenshots

Thinking AI Chat3 screens
Just Nod4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Thinking AI Chat at 3 against Just Nod's 1. Thinking AI Chat also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

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

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 3 level
Thinking AI Chat versus Just Nod: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThinking AI ChatJust Nod
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.4 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size15 MB30 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperThinking Technology LimitedSpeculative Dynamics Private Limited

In-app purchases

None

Thinking AI Chat

No in-app purchases

None

Just Nod

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Thinking AI Chat free?
Thinking AI Chat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Just Nod free?
Just Nod is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Thinking AI Chat or Just Nod have ads?
Neither Thinking AI Chat nor Just Nod shows ads.

Other comparisons