SIMTA vs Local Keep AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SIMTA
This app offers a minimalist timer experience with a clear visual countdown. It allows for quick setup with a single tap and provides reliable alerts for various activities like cooking, studying, or exercising.
- One-tap timer setup
- Visual countdown display
- Minimalist interface
- Reliable alerts
- Versatile use cases
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SIMTA is a timer you read at a glance. Set a time and the whole screen fills with color. As the seconds run out the color drains away, so you can tell how much is left from across the room without reading a number. SIMPLE BY DESIGN • Spin the dial, press start. That is the whole setup. • No accounts and no subscriptions. • Red is free, with nine more colors in SIMTA Pro. SIMTA PRO — ONE PURCHASE, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION • Nine more colors, with the home screen icon to match. • Every time you have run, kept in Recent. • No ads. MADE TO BE GLANCED AT • Horizon Lock keeps the color level with the room as you tip the phone or prop it in a stand. • The controls fade away once the timer is running, so nothing sits on top of the color. • Hide the digits entirely if you only want the color. • Keep the screen awake while a timer runs. • The countdown carries on to the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island, with pause, resume and stop right there. RELIABLE • The countdown stays accurate after you switch apps or lock the phone. • A running timer survives the app being closed. • The alarm is audible even with the silent switch on. Good for cooking, focus sprints, workouts, study blocks, and anything where you would rather feel time pass than watch a number.
Local Keep AI
This AI workspace allows you to chat with hundreds of models locally on your device, even offline. It generates real files like PDFs and spreadsheets, not just descriptions, and supports voice input and output. Access your work across multiple platforms with a single account.
- Local-first AI workspace
- Offline functionality
- Real file generation (PDF, CSV, etc.)
- Voice chat and playback
- Hundreds of AI models
- Cross-platform support
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Local Keep AI is a local-first AI workspace. Chat with hundreds of models, talk to it out loud, and get back real files you can open — not descriptions of files. WORKS OFFLINE Local models run on your device. Your conversations stay on your device, and your usage keeps counting correctly whether or not you have a connection, syncing when you reconnect. REAL FILES, NOT DESCRIPTIONS Ask for a PDF, spreadsheet, CSV, document, presentation, image, audio clip or video and Local Keep AI produces the actual file. Ask a plain question and you get a plain answer — it does not attach a file to everything. HUNDREDS OF MODELS Local GGUF models, Ollama models, hosted models and OpenRouter's catalogue, all in one picker with filters for what each one can actually do: code, reasoning, vision, image, audio, video and document generation. OpenRouter's free models work with no key of your own; its paid models need your own OpenRouter key, and are billed to your account rather than bundled into a plan. TALK TO IT Speak instead of typing. Local Keep AI transcribes your voice, runs it through the model you chose, and reads the answer back. Choose the voice and language it replies in, from the voices installed on your device. EVERYWHERE YOU WORK The same account works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, the web and desktop, plus a command-line tool for your own machine. PLANS Free, with no card and no trial clock. On the Free plan you can chat with the free models, generate images, and run models on your own device. It does not expire and it is not a trial, because none of it costs us anything to serve. Paid plans add Local Keep AI's own hosted models, the command-line tool and the SMS bridge, each with a monthly output-token allowance: Starter 300,000 tokens for $19.99 per month, Pro 2,000,000 for $49.99, Premium 10,000,000 for $99.99, Ultra 30,000,000 for $199.99. Annual plans bill ten months for twelve. Extra tokens are bought before they are used, so you are never billed after the fact and can never run up a bill by accident. Paid models from other providers work with your own OpenRouter key, billed to your account, not ours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SIMTA at none against Local Keep AI's 10. Local Keep AI's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Local Keep AI sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. SIMTA asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SIMTA against 5.0 for Local Keep AI. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
SIMTA ships an update every 2 days, Local Keep AI every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SIMTA | Local Keep AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | OurBeom | Layne Faler |
Customer experience
SIMTA
Local Keep AI
In-app purchases
SIMTA
No in-app purchases
Local Keep AI
- Local Keep AI Starter$19.991 Month
- Local Keep AI Pro$49.991 Month
- Local Keep AI Premium$99.991 Month
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- Local Keep AI Ultra$199.991 Month
- Local Keep AI Starter Yearly$199.991 Year
- Local Keep AI Pro Yearly$499.991 Year
- Local Keep AI Premium Yearly$999.991 Year
- 1M Token Top-Up$5.00
- 5M Token Top-Up$25.00
- 10M Token Top-Up$50.00









