Comparison

Vision Fox vs Brae

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

Head to head
About

Vision Fox

This AI-powered vision assistant uses your camera to identify objects, translate text, find recipes, and provide location details. Simply point your camera, ask a question, and get instant, shareable answers.

Highlights
  • Visual Geolocation
  • Food-to-Recipe conversion
  • Smart Product Lookup
  • Instant OCR & Translation
  • Object and Plant Identification
  • Privacy-First Design
Features
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See it. Understand it. Act. Vision Fox turns a camera capture, photo, or screenshot into a clear visual analysis and practical next steps. Choose a focused mode or type your own request, then review the image before sending it for AI analysis. HOW IT WORKS 1. Point the camera at what you want to understand, or choose an image from Photos. 2. Select a mode: • Auto — general image analysis • Custom — type exactly what you want Vision Fox to do • Explain — understand what something is • Troubleshoot — identify a visible problem and possible next steps • Extract — read and organize visible text • Inspect — check for unusual, missing, damaged, or risky details 3. Review the captured image and tap Analyze. 4. Read the result in clear sections covering observations, possible meaning, uncertainty, and recommended next actions. BUILT FOR PRACTICAL VISUAL QUESTIONS Use Vision Fox to understand objects, documents, screenshots, labels, equipment, products, signs, charts, visible problems, and other everyday images. Custom mode lets you give specific instructions, and your request remains visible through review and results. CLEAR, ACTIONABLE RESULTS Results are organized into easy-to-read cards: • Summary • What Vision Fox Observed • What It May Mean • Risks or Uncertainty • What To Do Next • Extracted Text, when available • Suggested Follow-Ups KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING Ask a follow-up question about the same image or tap one of the suggested questions to go deeper without starting over. SAVE AND SHARE Save useful scans to local History, reopen them later, pin important items, rename them, or share a formatted report. Vision Fox creates a saved History item only when you tap Save. RELIABLE AND RESPONSIBLE Vision Fox separates visible observations from interpretation, states uncertainty, supports cancel and retry, and shows estimated progress while analysis is running. Text-focused requests can also use on-device Apple Vision OCR as supporting evidence. This release includes Firebase App Check integration to help protect AI requests from unauthorized clients. Vision Fox — see it, understand it, act.

About

Brae

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Brae is a local-first AI assistant for daily work and personal notes. It gives you a calm place to chat, capture ideas, review meetings, and keep useful context on your device. Use Brae to: - Chat with an on-device assistant for everyday questions and drafts. - Talk in Live mode, with typed fallback when speech is unavailable. - Use See World to ask about what the camera sees, powered by an on-device vision model when available. - Capture Meeting Notes, edit the transcript, and save it to your Library. - Review saved notes, call records, imported files, and generated artifacts in Library. - Keep Today focused on local follow-ups from your own notes and calls. - Manage local models in Model Setup, including downloads you explicitly choose. - Control privacy-sensitive features from Settings. Brae is built around local-first behavior. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. Your chats, transcripts, notes, files, memory, and settings stay on your device by default. Brae does not operate a Bubustudio backend that stores your content. Network use is explicit and user-initiated: - Model downloads happen only when you choose to download a local model from Hugging Face. - Location, nearby-place, destination, and route lookups use Apple MapKit and Core Location only when you ask. - Optional iCloud sync is off by default and, when enabled, uses your private CloudKit database. - Optional web search is off by default. When enabled, Brae sends the search query to DuckDuckGo’s keyless Instant Answer API so results can be returned.

Screenshots

Vision Fox4 screens
Brae4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Brae at every 2 days against Vision Fox's every 2 months. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vision Fox ships an update every 2 months, Brae every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Vision Fox versus Brae: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVision FoxBrae
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB33 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCho Yan YamHaosheng Li

In-app purchases

None

Vision Fox

No in-app purchases

None

Brae

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vision Fox free?
Vision Fox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brae free?
Brae is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vision Fox or Brae have ads?
Neither Vision Fox nor Brae shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vision Fox or Brae?
Vision Fox ships an update every 2 months, and Brae every 2 days. Most recently, Vision Fox was updated on October 30, 2026 and Brae on October 31, 2026.

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