On‑Device AI vs Speaklone
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/
Speaklone
Create audiobooks and spoken-word content directly from text using AI-powered voice cloning and text-native editing. Refine performances with emotion and style controls, all processed entirely on your device for complete privacy.
- On-device AI voice cloning
- Text-native audio editing
- Emotion and style control
- Manuscript analysis for narration/dialogue
- Export to WAV/M4A
- Multi-language support
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Create audiobooks and polished voice performances directly in the text. Speaklone analyzes your manuscript or script, identifies speakers, lets you assign voices, and helps you refine performances section by section, all entirely on your device. Clone voices from short audio clips, customize voice avatars, and generate natural speech without subscriptions, cloud processing, or usage limits. INSTANT AUDIOBOOK CREATION Import a manuscript, screenplay, transcript, or other long-form text. Speaklone analyzes the document, separates narration and dialogue, identifies speakers, and lays out the performance directly in the text. Assign voices, play sections, and refine performances as needed. IMPROVED LONG-FORM GENERATION Speaklone 1.3 improves long-form speech workflows with better section handling, smoother export options, and refinements for creating longer spoken-word projects. WORK DIRECTLY IN THE TEXT No confusing timelines. No waveform editing. Produce spoken-word audio in a text-native editor designed for writers, not audio engineers. CUSTOM VOICE AVATARS Personalize your cloned and designed voices with custom images from your photo library, or let Speaklone generate avatars automatically when available. DEVICE COMPATIBILITY Requires 8 GB RAM. Examples of supported devices: • iPhone 15 Pro / Pro Max • iPhone 16 / 16 Plus / 16 Pro / 16 Pro Max • iPhone 17 / 17 Air / 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max • iPad with M1 chip or later Not supported: iPhone 14 and earlier, iPhone 15 non-Pro, and iPads without M-series chips. The app will alert you if your device is not supported. CLONE YOUR VOICE Record or import just 3–10 seconds of audio. Speaklone creates a voice clone you can use for any text. Use your own voice or voices you have permission to use. 9 EXPRESSIVE PRESET VOICES Choose from diverse voices with distinct personalities. Multi-language support includes English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. EMOTION & STYLE CONTROL Direct how voices speak with natural language: • “Speak with excitement and energy” • “Sound contemplative and slow” • “Read this like a bedtime story” 100% ON-DEVICE Your text and voice data stay on your device. No internet required after the initial model download. Complete privacy for sensitive content. Works in Airplane mode. EXPORT & SHARE Save generated audio as WAV, M4A, or Opus. Share directly from the app for use in podcasts, videos, audiobooks, study materials, or creative projects. FREE TO TRY Start with 3 preset voices and 15 daily generations. Voice cloning works in demo mode: hear cloned voices speak sample phrases before you buy. SPEAKLONE PRO: ONE-TIME PURCHASE One payment. Yours forever on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. All 9 voices, unlimited generation, full voice cloning control, and no audio watermark. Questions or feedback? dylan@dylanmalone.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Speaklone at 4.7 against On‑Device AI's 4.4. On‑Device AI's advantage is ratings volume (163 vs 9) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. On‑Device AI sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Speaklone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Speaklone holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: On‑Device AI has 163 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of On‑Device AI's written reviews are positive against 69% of Speaklone's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | On‑Device AI | Speaklone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (163 ratings) | 4.7 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 163 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.8 GB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zijie Deng | Renditions Design |
Customer experience
On‑Device AI
Speaklone
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
Speaklone
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
Speaklone
- Speaklone Pro$39.99









