LLMConnect vs Privacy AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LLMConnect
Access multiple AI models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini within a single, private workspace. Bring your own API keys for enhanced control and security. Streamline your AI interactions with features like PDF/image chat, voice input, and custom assistants.
- Access multiple AI models
- Bring your own API keys
- Chat with PDFs and images
- Voice input and image generation
- Customizable assistants
- Organize chats with folders
- Offline local models
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LLMConnect is a private, all-in-one client for the world's best AI models. Bring your own API keys, connect to your favorite providers, and chat with every model from a single, beautifully native iOS app. ALL YOUR MODELS IN ONE PLACE • OpenAI (GPT), Anthropic (Claude), Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Mistral, Groq and OpenRouter • Access hundreds of additional models — Kimi, Qwen, GLM, Llama and more — through OpenRouter • Add any OpenAI-compatible custom provider PAY AS YOU GO • Use your own API keys (BYOK) and pay providers only for what you use • No accounts, no middleman servers — your requests go straight to each provider PRIVATE BY DESIGN • API keys stored securely in the iOS Keychain • Conversations stay on your device, with optional iCloud sync under your control • Face ID / Touch ID lock and app-switcher privacy protection BUILT FOR POWER USERS • Attach files and images, with built-in OCR for scanned documents • Create custom bots with their own instructions • Save and reuse your best prompts • Image generation support • Available in 8 languages Free to try. Unlock everything with Premium or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy AI
This app offers a powerful AI fiction studio for writing novels, an AI character roleplay studio, and the ability to run various AI models locally or remotely. It includes extensive tools for content processing, voice generation, and AI agents, with full accessibility features.
- AI fiction novel writing studio
- AI character roleplay studio
- Run local and remote AI models
- AI agents and 40+ built-in tools
- On-device and cloud voice generation
- Convert and export various file types
- Full VoiceOver and haptic feedback support
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Privacy AI is both a chatbot and an agent, and both run on your device. Ask it a question, or give it a goal and it will plan, use tools, and come back with a report. Local models work fully offline, and nothing leaves your phone unless you connect a cloud provider yourself. Topic Briefing - Get a dated, sourced brief on any topic you follow, from live searches - Written by an on-device or cloud model; read it aloud or share it Games - Adventure: a fantasy campaign with an AI party and narrator, every dice roll shown - Werewolf: a social deduction table of AI players you join or watch Google Drive - Chat models search, read and, with your permission, edit your files Create Images on Your Device - New on iOS 27: FLUX.2 Klein and Stable Diffusion models, free with no API key - Import your own fine-tunes, plus SDXL models and LoRAs on Mac - Use them in Media Studio, Novel Writer and chat Run Models Locally or in the Cloud - On-device GGUF and MLX models, with vision and tool-calling - New on iOS 27: Neural Engine models keep generating after you leave the app - Local Decisions: classify and rate text on device - Apple Private Cloud Compute and the on-device Foundation Model, no account or API key - Connect to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, or any OpenAI-compatible server Agent - Give it a goal: it plans, calls tools and delivers a written report - Teach it with Skills: folders of instructions and scripts Chat - Set model tiers once, then just type - Smart Chat routes each message by complexity, keeping sensitive text local System Keyboard - Dictate, rewrite, translate and proofread text in any app - Types in 11 languages with Pinyin, Japanese and Korean input Mini Apps - Doc Scanner: PDFs, photos and scans to clean Markdown, tables intact - Email Assistant: triage any IMAP inbox on device - Knowledge Wiki: a linked knowledge base from your documents, with cited answers - LLM Council: ask several models at once and get one answer Tools and Connectors - 60+ built-in tools: web, news, video and paper search, calendar, code and more - MCP with a marketplace, Siri and Shortcuts Writing and Voice - Novel Writer drafts outlines and chapters - Text to Audio: turn a document into one audio file with on-device voices - Voice Clone: a voice from a short recording or a description - Voice chat and live speech recognition with speaker labels Files and Accessibility - Convert PDFs, Office files, EPUB, video and audio to Markdown, with OCR - VoiceOver support throughout, including both games - View Assistant: point the camera and hear what is in front of you Free to Use. No Ads. Local model features are free, including the AI keyboard, knowledge wiki, writing assistant, topic briefings, 60+ tools, document reader, games and on-device image generation. Cloud API models, Google Drive and the MCP marketplace need a subscription. Privacy by Design Privacy AI runs on-device. No backend servers. No accounts. No data collection. Every API request is visible in the Protocol Inspector. Your models. Your device. Your data. Terms of Use: https://privacyai.acmeup.com/docs/policy/tos.html Privacy Policy: https://privacyai.acmeup.com/docs/policy/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Privacy AI at 92% against LLMConnect's 22%. Privacy AI also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (20 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. LLMConnect sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Privacy AI sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Privacy AI holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Privacy AI has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of LLMConnect's written reviews are positive against 92% of Privacy AI's.
LLMConnect ships an update fortnightly, Privacy AI weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LLMConnect | Privacy AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.9% of reviews | 92.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 3.5 GB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sebastian Diaz Delgado | AcmeUp Inc. |
Customer experience
LLMConnect
Privacy AI
In-app purchases
LLMConnect
- Premium Weekly3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Premium Yearly1 Year trial$49.991 Year
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- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$124.99
Privacy AI
- Weekly Pro Plan$3.997 Days
- Monthly Pro Plan$9.991 Month
- Yearly Pro Plan$99.991 Year









