Comparison

Curatio 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

Curatio

This app intelligently filters your SMS messages using AI, categorizing them into transactional, promotional, or spam. It can optionally deliver only two-factor authentication codes and send promotional messages directly to a junk folder.

Highlights
  • AI-powered message categorization
  • Filter transactional messages
  • Filter promotional messages
  • Filter spam messages
  • Optional 2FA code delivery
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Filter your SMS messages using the latest innovations on AI: - Get only two-factor authentication codes (optional) - Send all promotional messages to Junk (optional) - Curatio categorize every new SMS message without any previous instructions. - Curatio filter every SMS message you receive as Transactional, Promotional or Spam. - Transactional messages are categorized by Carrier, Orders, Health & Public Services.

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

Curatio4 screens
On‑Device AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: On‑Device AI at Free against Curatio's $9.99. On‑Device AI also leads on ratings volume (162 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). Curatio's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (100% vs 64%). On update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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

On‑Device AI is free to download; Curatio costs $9.99 up front. On‑Device AI sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Curatio asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Curatio holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: On‑Device AI has 162 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Curatio's written reviews are positive against 64% of On‑Device AI's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Curatio ships an update every 3 weeks, On‑Device AI fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Curatio versus On‑Device AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCuratioOn‑Device AI
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.4 (162 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better63.6% of reviews
Number of ratings2162 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS17.2 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB1.8 GB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAndres J Ochoa SZijie Deng

Customer experience

Curatio

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

On‑Device AI

All ratings162 ratings
Positive82.1%
Neutral8.0%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral15.9%
Negative20.6%

Bugs and requests

Curatio

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

Curatio

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 Curatio free?
Curatio costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is On‑Device AI free?
On‑Device AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Curatio or On‑Device AI?
Curatio is rated higher. Curatio averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while On‑Device AI averages 4.4 from 162 ratings.
Do Curatio or On‑Device AI have ads?
Neither Curatio nor On‑Device AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Curatio or On‑Device AI?
Curatio ships an update every 3 weeks, and On‑Device AI fortnightly. Most recently, Curatio was updated on September 26, 2026 and On‑Device AI on October 24, 2026.

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