Comparison

Super Agent vs On‑Device AI

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

Head to head
About

Super Agent

Features
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Super Agent is a versatile AI assistant designed to help with everyday questions, language learning, interview preparation, travel planning, creative writing, and more. Start a contextual conversation or choose a specialized AI role for your task: • General Chat Ask questions, explore ideas, plan your day, or get clear explanations on a wide range of topics. • Language Translator Translate text between multiple languages quickly and naturally. • English Improver Correct grammar and spelling, polish emails, and make your English sound more natural. • Mock Interviewer Practice realistic interviews for technical, product, and other professional roles. • English Speaking Partner Build confidence through English conversations and listen to responses for additional practice. • Travel Guide Get destination ideas, attraction recommendations, and suggested itineraries based on your location and preferences. • Storyteller and Novelist Create engaging stories, develop characters, explore new worlds, and turn your ideas into longer narratives. • Legal Information Assistant Explore general information and possible considerations for common legal situations. Responses are for informational purposes only and do not replace professional legal advice. Super Agent also lets you: • Continue conversations with contextual understanding • Review and manage your conversation history • Copy, share, listen to, or regenerate responses • Switch between English and Chinese • Choose light, dark, or system appearance Whether you are learning, working, planning, or creating, Super Agent gives you practical AI assistance whenever you need it. AI-generated responses may occasionally be inaccurate. Please verify important information before making decisions. User Agreement:https://shelltech.pages.dev/agent/terms Privacy Policy:https://shelltech.pages.dev/agent/privacy

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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/

Screenshots

Super Agent4 screens
On‑Device AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Super Agent at none against On‑Device AI's 4. Super Agent also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On‑Device AI's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence and ads 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. On‑Device AI sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Super Agent asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Super Agent ships an update every 4 weeks, On‑Device AI fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Super Agent versus On‑Device AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuper AgentOn‑Device AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.4 (163 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—63.6% of reviews
Number of ratings—163 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB1.8 GB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperTianjin Shell Technology Co., Ltd.Zijie Deng

Bugs and requests

Super Agent

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

None

Super Agent

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

On‑Device AI

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Member Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Pro Member Subscription$34.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime Pro Member$49.99
  • Lifetime Pro Member$99.99

Questions

Is Super Agent free?
Super Agent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is On‑Device AI free?
On‑Device AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Super Agent or On‑Device AI have ads?
Neither Super Agent nor On‑Device AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Super Agent or On‑Device AI?
Super Agent ships an update every 4 weeks, and On‑Device AI fortnightly. Most recently, Super Agent was updated on October 1, 2026 and On‑Device AI on October 30, 2026.

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