On‑Device AI vs Mobile Comfy Creator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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/
Mobile Comfy Creator
Generate AI images and videos from your mobile device by connecting to your local ComfyUI server. Offers advanced control over generation parameters, custom workflows, and batch processing for digital artists and content creators.
- Text-to-Image generation
- Image-to-Image transformation
- Text-to-Video creation
- Advanced parameter control
- Custom workflow templates
- Batch generation
- Real-time progress tracking
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Mobile Comfy Creator is a native app for iPhone and iPad that runs ComfyUI and SwarmUI. Make images, video and music with the models on your own computer or a cloud GPU you rent: no credits, no subscription. FREE TO DOWNLOAD • Create, Remix and Edit images with any model on your ComfyUI or SwarmUI server • Scan your Wi-Fi to find your server, or type an address. The app detects it, tests the connection and shows your GPU and models • A gallery with folders, favorites and search; Share and Save to Photos • Prompt help from Apple Intelligence, or Smart Templates that work with no AI model at all • Try Pro features free: your first 3 Pro generations are on us COMFYMOBILE PRO: ONE PURCHASE, YOURS FOREVER • Video: Wan 2.2 (5B and 14B), HunyuanVideo 1.5 and LTX-Video, from text or from a photo • Music: songs and instrumentals with ACE-Step 1.5. Pick a style, add lyrics or go instrumental, up to 4 minutes • Upscale 2× or 4× with added detail, and Expand a photo past its edges to 16:9, 9:16 or square • Edit by describing the change with FLUX.1 Kontext or Qwen-Image-Edit, with up to two reference images • Batch generation and one-tap seed variations • The visual node editor and your own workflow imports • Rent a cloud GPU on Vast.ai right from the app • iCloud sync of images, videos, workflows and settings across iPhone and iPad • Switch between several saved servers in one tap If you used Mobile Comfy Creator before 2.0, you already have Pro. EVERY MODEL, SET UP FOR YOU • SDXL, Illustrious, Pony, SD 3.5, FLUX.1, FLUX.2, Chroma, Z-Image, Qwen-Image, HiDream and more • Split-file models are assembled automatically: text encoders and VAEs are found on your server • Each model says whether it's ready, or exactly which file it still needs, and whether your GPU or Mac can run it • Starting settings tuned for each model family, with Fast, Balanced and Best quality SIMPLE BY DEFAULT, POWERFUL WHEN YOU WANT IT • Pick a mode and a shape, type a prompt, tap Generate • More options: negative prompt, LoRAs, seed, number of images • Expert controls: CFG, steps, sampler, scheduler and custom sizes MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD • Widgets, Control Center controls and a Live Activity for generation progress • Larger text works: layouts rearrange instead of cutting off • On iPad: sidebar navigation and options in an inspector PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No tracking and no analytics. Your prompts and images go only to the servers you choose • iCloud sync is off until you turn it on, and uses your own iCloud account Requires your own ComfyUI or SwarmUI server (on your network, over Tailscale or on a rented cloud GPU). The app doesn't generate images on the phone itself. Music, Expand and some video models need ComfyUI. Terms of Use: https://gallahadd.com/legal/mobile-comfy-creator/terms Privacy Policy: https://gallahadd.com/legal/mobile-comfy-creator/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: On‑Device AI at 4.4 against Mobile Comfy Creator's 3.8. On‑Device AI also leads on ratings volume (163 vs 4) and device support (4 vs 2). Mobile Comfy Creator's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. On‑Device AI sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Mobile Comfy Creator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On‑Device AI holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: On‑Device AI has 163 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of On‑Device AI's written reviews are positive against 67% of Mobile Comfy Creator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
On‑Device AI ships an update fortnightly, Mobile Comfy Creator every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | On‑Device AI | Mobile Comfy Creator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (163 ratings) — better | 3.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 163 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.8 GB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Zijie Deng | Gallahadd Software LLC |
Customer experience
On‑Device AI
Mobile Comfy Creator
Bugs and 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
Mobile Comfy Creator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
On‑Device AI
- Pro Member Subscription$3.991 Month
- Pro Member Subscription$34.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro Member$49.99
- Lifetime Pro Member$99.99
Mobile Comfy Creator
- ComfyMobile Pro$6.99
Questions
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