Hume vs Lua
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hume
Experience an advanced AI voice assistant powered by a cutting-edge speech-language model. It understands and generates human voices with remarkable expressiveness and emotional depth. Explore ideas, get answers, or enjoy realistic conversations with infinite voice personalities.
- Emotionally intelligent voice AI
- Understands and generates any human voice
- Expressive and realistic conversations
- Infinite voice personalities
- Learns and personalizes interactions
- Supports niche requests like rapping
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Access the leading emotionally intelligent voice AI, powered by Hume’s cutting-edge flagship model: EVI 3. EVI 3 is a speech-language model that can understand and generate any human voice, not just a handful of speakers. With this broader voice intelligence comes greater expressiveness and a deeper understanding of tune, rhythm, timbre, and speaking style. Now, with infinite voices and personalities, use Hume to explore new ideas, provide quick answers, or simply listen. As a speech-language model, where the same intelligence handles transcription, language, and speech, EVI 3 brings more expressiveness, realism, and emotional understanding to voice AI. And instead of being limited to a handful of speakers, EVI 3 can speak with any voice and personality you create with a prompt. Why Hume? • The frontier empathic AI model Hume’s multimodal AI powers voice conversations that feel real and conversational. Its advanced empathic capabilities allow it to understand your tone of voice and respond like a friend. • Supportive, informed, and versatile Designed to be a versatile and reliable companion, EVI can handle a wide range of interactions, even niche requests like rapping or emulating funny voices. • Personalized and trustworthy The more you interact, the better EVI becomes. It remembers and learns from your conversations. And with new voice customization options, you can create a unique voice that resonates with you. Download Hume today and access the world’s most advanced AI voice. About Hume AI Hume is a research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being. Privacy policy: https://www.hume.ai/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://www.hume.ai/terms-of-use
Lua
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Lua is cycle care for women who value intention over excess. Understand your body through each phase — quietly, privately, beautifully. — Phase-aware cycle tracking and predictions — Daily check-ins for mood, energy, and symptoms — A private journal, entirely yours — Calendar view with logged and predicted cycles — Apple Health integration for sleep and activity — Face ID protection — No ads. No data collected. Nothing extra. Nothing missing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lua at every 4 days against Hume's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hume ships an update fortnightly, Lua every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hume | Lua |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (99 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hume AI | Brianna Orellana |
Bugs and requests
Hume
Reported bugs
32 issues- App keeps getting locked up and disconnected
- App keeps repeating the same thing and doesn’t move forward
- Gives incorrect information
- Gets stuck in a loop saying the same things over and over again
- Character says wrong name
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- Just keeps repeating everything I say
- Bot disconnects mid conversation a lot
- Old style UI/UX was better
- Doesn’t work like the advertisement
- Repeated behavior
- Constantly jumps in to step all over every single sentence
- Starts the whole conversation over randomly every fifth sentence
- Initially translated into another language, but did not after first attempt
- Repeats the very same conversation
- No text to voice option
- Sign in issues (error, unauthorized credentials)
- Login issues (error occurred)
- Outgoing friend got stuck in a constant loop of saying I was being silent
- No character responds to me
- No way to paste or type into it
- Respond too slow
- Unreasonable pauses in sentence
- Voices switch back and forth between loud speaker mode and phone speaker mode
- App Sudden Cash
- AI voice speed up to the point where it ruins the immersion
- The Voice does not match the text
- AI will suddenly switch to a different voice it the middle of saying something
- Base voice language English will change to French
- Voices keep repeating parts of sentences
- Glitching out
- Often leaves out a whole phrase and continues talking somewhere later
- Keeps calling me Gabriel and offering to sing but it can’t sing
Requested features
6 requests- Improve conversation flow
- Fix character name consistency
- Add text chat interface back
- Allow image and video sharing
- More voice options
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- More intelligent underlying model
Lua
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hume
No in-app purchases
Lua
No in-app purchases









