HeyCyan vs AIBuds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HeyCyan
Connect your smart glasses to your smartphone for Bluetooth control, battery monitoring, and WiFi hotspot creation. Manage media, create hotspots, and access AI agents directly from your phone.
- Bluetooth pairing and control
- Battery and network monitoring
- WiFi hotspot creation
- Media export and synchronization
- AI agent integration
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HeyCyan facilitates seamless connectivity between smart glasses and your smartphone: 1.Bluetooth Pairing and Control: Pair your glasses with your phone via Bluetooth for precise control over various functions such as volume adjustment, gesture settings, and system updates. 2.Battery and Network Monitoring: Monitor remaining battery life and network usage of your glasses directly from your smartphone. You can also manage WiFi connections on the glasses through the app. 3.WiFi Hotspot and Media Management: Utilize the glasses' WiFi module to create hotspots, enabling easy export, synchronization, viewing, editing, sharing, and saving of photos and call recordings from your glasses to your phone. 4.AI Integration: Access a variety of AI agents directly through the app. Easily add them to your library and enjoy enhanced AI services on your AR glasses.
AIBuds
This app enhances smart glasses and headphones with features like recording, photography, music playback, and noise reduction. It also offers AI-powered dialogue and translation, along with firmware updates for your devices.
- Recording
- Photography
- Music playback
- Noise reduction
- AI dialogue
- AI translation
- Firmware upgrades
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AIBuds is a companion APP for smart glasses and smart headphones, supporting functions such as recording, taking pictures, music, noise reduction, AI dialogue, AI translation, and firmware upgrades.
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Verdict
HeyCyan and AIBuds both sit at 2.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 37% of AIBuds's written reviews are positive against 23% of HeyCyan's. HeyCyan's advantage is ratings volume (329 vs 45). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.7 for HeyCyan against 2.7 for AIBuds. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HeyCyan has 329 ratings behind it against 45, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 23% of HeyCyan's written reviews are positive against 37% of AIBuds's.
HeyCyan ships an update every 3 weeks, AIBuds fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HeyCyan | AIBuds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (329 ratings) | 2.7 (45 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.3% of reviews | 36.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 329 — better | 45 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 250 MB | 277 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Qingcheng Future Technology Co., Ltd. | 秀英 陈 |
Customer experience
HeyCyan
AIBuds
In-app purchases
HeyCyan
No in-app purchases
AIBuds
No in-app purchases
