Comparison

On‑Device AI vs Emojic

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

Head to head
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
Features
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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 a cloud provider account or your own model server • Browse, download, and manage models that fit your device, including ones for text, vision, reasoning, and tools • Import GGUF models from Hugging Face; the app checks the chat template and sets it up before downloading • Queue follow-up questions while a reply runs, and switch chats without losing it • 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 • 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 • 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/

About

Emojic

Instantly enhance your messages with AI-powered 3D emojis. This keyboard app automatically adds expressive emojis spatially around your keywords, making your texts more vivid and engaging. Works seamlessly across all your favorite chat applications.

Highlights
  • One-tap emoji insertion
  • AI-powered emoji placement
  • Spatial emoji choreography
  • Works as an iOS keyboard
  • Seamless integration with chat apps
  • Pro membership for unlimited generations
Features
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Write your message, then tap the wand. Emojic adds fitting Emoji where they feel natural. Your original words and meaning stay intact in Original Emoji mode. A plain sentence can instantly feel warmer, funnier, brighter, or more expressive. Hold the wand to switch speaking styles, including built-in characters and styles you create yourself. Generate in one tap. Undo in one tap. New users receive 10 free uses. You can earn 10 more by choosing to watch a rewarded ad, or buy additional credit packs. Privacy Policy https://api.feelu.com.cn/emojic/privacy Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

On‑Device AI4 screens
Emojic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Emojic at 5.0 against On‑Device AI's 4.4. Emojic also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On‑Device AI's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (163 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Both are free to download. On‑Device AI sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Emojic sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Emojic 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 163 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

On‑Device AI ships an update fortnightly, Emojic weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
On‑Device AI versus Emojic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOn‑Device AIEmojic
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (163 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings163 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.8 GB72 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperZijie DengBeijing Lumivison Culture Development Co., Ltd

Customer experience

On‑Device AI

All ratings163 ratings
Positive82.2%
Neutral8.0%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral15.9%
Negative20.6%

Emojic

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 4 more
  • HomeKit integration
  • Improved documentation
  • Enlarged agent input window
  • Per-agent model assignment

Emojic

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
2 purchases

Emojic

Subscriptions1
  • Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
One-time1
  • 100 Spells$2.99

Questions

Is On‑Device AI free?
On‑Device AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Emojic free?
Emojic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, On‑Device AI or Emojic?
Emojic is rated higher. On‑Device AI averages 4.4 out of 5 from 163 ratings, while Emojic averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do On‑Device AI or Emojic have ads?
Emojic shows ads; On‑Device AI does not.
Which is updated more often, On‑Device AI or Emojic?
On‑Device AI ships an update fortnightly, and Emojic weekly. Most recently, On‑Device AI was updated on November 8, 2026 and Emojic on October 31, 2026.

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