Comparison

Chat vs QRowl

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

Head to head
About

Chat

This app is an all-in-one AI platform for creating and enhancing content. Generate videos, images, music, and text with powerful AI tools. It also offers features for understanding the world around you, like recognition and translation.

Highlights
  • AI Video Generator
  • AI Image Generator
  • AI Music Generator
  • AI Writing Assistant
  • AI Chat Assistant
  • AI Web Search
  • Lens AI Recognition
Features
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Chat: AI is an AI assistant for answers, writing, and creative generation. Ask questions, write faster, summarize text, brainstorm ideas, and create images, videos, and music from simple prompts. Use Chat: AI to: • Get quick answers • Write and rewrite messages, emails, captions, and essays • Summarize and translate text • Generate images from ideas • Create video concepts and prompts • Explore music ideas, lyrics, and song concepts • Get help with study, work, and everyday tasks Start with free AI chat and turn your ideas into text, images, videos, and music in one simple app. Privacy policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/71197635 Terms of use: https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/71197635

About

QRowl

Features
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Put the QR codes you use in widgets. QRowl lets you create or import QR codes, keep them in a private personal library, and place them in widgets on the Home Screen, in Today View, or in StandBy, where a code stays scannable while the iPhone charges on its side, even in the red Night Mode. Create codes for text, websites, Wi-Fi networks, phone numbers, email, messages, contact cards, and calendar events. You can also scan with the camera or import QR codes from photos and PDF documents. Add an optional center logo from a photo or SF Symbol, choose foreground and background colors, and search your library when you need a code. Share a code as what it is, a link, a contact card, or a calendar event, together with its image, or print it large on a single page with its name as the title, big enough to scan from across the room. Attach an optional circular location and QRowl can notify you when you arrive, carrying the code in the notification so you can pull it down and scan it without unlocking, or tap it to open the preview. A File code carries a whole file of up to 1 MB, such as a PDF, an image, or a document. It plays as an animated sequence of QR codes in the preview, another iPhone or iPad running QRowl scans it back with the camera and saves the file, and you can share the file itself or export the animation as a movie. Your library stays private. Codes and saved locations are stored on your device and can sync between your devices through your private iCloud account. Whether a device sends location reminders is a local setting. Widgets use locally generated previews and never access CloudKit directly. No separate account. No ads. No tracking. No analytics.

Screenshots

Chat4 screens
QRowl4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: QRowl at weekly against Chat's every 6 weeks. 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. Chat sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 7 days and QRowl sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chat ships an update every 6 weeks, QRowl weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Chat versus QRowl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChatQRowl
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews5.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.1 GB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMary srlwerk01

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Chat

Subscriptions2
  • Mary AI - Weekly subscription$8.997 Days
  • Mary AI - Monthly subscription$24.991 Month
One-time3
  • 5 credits$8.99
  • 10 credits$17.99
  • 20 credits$29.99
1 purchases

QRowl

One-time1
  • QRowl Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Chat free?
Chat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is QRowl free?
QRowl is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chat or QRowl have ads?
Neither Chat nor QRowl shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chat or QRowl?
Chat ships an update every 6 weeks, and QRowl weekly. Most recently, Chat was updated on October 7, 2026 and QRowl on October 11, 2026.

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