Comparison

Privacy AI vs Based LLM

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Based LLM

Features
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Dein persönlicher KI-Assistent — komplett lokal, komplett privat. Based bringt leistungsstarke KI direkt auf dein iPhone, iPad und deinen Mac. Kein Internet nötig, keine Cloud, keine Tracker. Alles bleibt auf deinem Gerät. Highlights: • Komplett offline nutzbar nach dem Modell-Download (Gemma 3 1B ist im App-Bundle enthalten) • Verschiedene KI-Modelle zur Auswahl — von schnell und kompakt bis leistungsstark • Websuche über DuckDuckGo — ohne persönliche Daten zu übermitteln • Bildanalyse direkt auf dem Gerät • Markdown-formatierte Antworten • Chat-Export und Suchfunktion • Komplett kostenlos, kein Abo, kein Account Deine Daten gehören dir. Nichts verlässt dein Gerät. Keine Cloud-Verarbeitung, kein Tracking, keine Überraschungen. Based nutzt Open-Source-Modelle, die direkt auf deiner Hardware laufen. Funktioniert überall. Im Flugzeug, im Ausland, im Keller — Based braucht nach dem Modell-Download kein Internet mehr.

Screenshots

Privacy AI4 screens
Based LLM3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Based LLM at none against Privacy AI's 3. Privacy AI's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Privacy AI sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Based LLM asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Privacy AI versus Based LLM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrivacy AIBased LLM
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3.5 GB777 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperAcmeUp Inc.Marcel Theiner

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Privacy AI

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Pro Plan$3.997 Days
  • Monthly Pro Plan$9.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro Plan$99.991 Year
None

Based LLM

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Privacy AI free?
Privacy AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Based LLM free?
Based LLM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Privacy AI or Based LLM have ads?
Neither Privacy AI nor Based LLM shows ads.

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