Comparison

Ask Safely vs Tinfoil

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

Head to head
About

Ask Safely

This AI assistant provides helpful answers to your questions while automatically deleting conversations after 8 hours. It prioritizes user privacy by not using chats for AI training and avoiding tracking or permanent records. Start asking immediately without needing an account.

Highlights
  • Auto-deleting conversations
  • No AI training on user data
  • No tracking or permanent records
  • Instant chat deletion
  • No account required
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Clear answers from an AI that's on your side. Ask about a bill, a letter, a prescription or a plan, and get a plain answer with a next step. And check any text that seems off, free. Your chats clear on the timer you choose. Nothing you say is used to train AI, and there are no ads. WHAT YOU CAN DO Scam or real? Send Lookout a screenshot of a text, email or link. It tells you if it's a scam, shows you the tells, and says what to do next. Your first check needs no account, and unlimited checks are free with one. Clear answers: Ask the hard question and get a plain-English answer, with the sources when it looks things up, so you can check the work yourself. The letter in front of you: Snap a photo of a lab result, an insurance notice or a bill, and ask what it actually means. Keep what matters: Save what's worth keeping as a Knowledgebook, like a medication list or a trip plan. Read it, edit it or remove any line anytime. The chat clears. The Knowledgebook doesn't. Just talk: Tap the microphone and ask out loud. Ask Safely talks back. Write it for me: Draft the email, the reply or the note you've been putting off. YOUR PRIVACY Chats clear on your timer: 8 hours by default, or 7 or 30 days. Nothing you say is used to train AI. No ads. Encrypted in transit and at rest. Built on Anthropic's Claude, and we pick the right model for each question. PLANS Essential is free: unlimited chats, unlimited Lookout scam checks, About you plus three Knowledgebooks, and one free try each of Researcher, Writer, voice and uploads. Expert is $20 a month, or $100 for your first year (launch offer through October 31), then $200 a year. Cancel anytime. Ask Safely is an AI assistant, not a doctor, lawyer or financial advisor. Treat answers as a helpful starting point. Terms of Service & Privacy Policy: https://www.asksafely.ai/assistant-terms-of-service/ https://www.asksafely.ai/assistant-privacy-policy/

About

Tinfoil

Engage in private AI conversations using secure hardware enclaves. This app offers verifiable privacy for your discussions with powerful AI models, ensuring your data remains inaccessible to anyone, including the developers. It leverages advanced technology for a secure and private AI chat experience.

Highlights
  • Private AI conversations
  • Secure hardware enclaves
  • Verifiable infrastructure
  • Chat with open-source AI models
  • Automatic enclave verification
Features
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An AI chat with verified privacy. The only way to protect your conversations is to make them inaccessible to anyone in the first place. Other AI applications ask you to trust them with your data, promising to anonymize them later or telling you they won't train on it. Tinfoil is built to prevent data leakage from the get-go. All our models run inside secure hardware enclaves that ensure your chats are private to you and invisible to everyone else, including Tinfoil. You can chat with state-of-the-art open-weight models without worrying about who else can see your conversations. THE HIGHLIGHTS • Your conversations are exclusively processed inside isolated, encrypted environments powered by NVIDIA confidential computing technology. Think of it as a digital vault that even Tinfoil can't unlock. It's the same hardware protection used for your iPhone biometrics, extended to cloud GPUs that run powerful large models and agents. • Every conversation starts with automatic enclave security verification. You can confirm that the app is connected to secure hardware running the correct AI model, isolating your conversation so that it is only between you and the intelligence on the other end. • You get the speed and features of the most powerful cloud-based AI services while getting the privacy equivalent of having a local model running on your phone. • All our privacy claims are backed by open-source code you can inspect, enabling public auditability and complete transparency. Visit https://github.com/tinfoilsh/ • Stop sharing your data with advertisers, model labs, and data brokers. Tinfoil keeps your conversations between you and the model, period. HOW IT WORKS Instead of trusting a privacy policy, you verify the protection yourself. Tinfoil's open-source inference software runs inside NVIDIA confidential computing enclaves, creating an encrypted sandbox that is cryptographically isolated from the rest of the cloud and the world. Every session begins with a security attestation you can inspect in the Verification Center, proving that the correct model is running and that nobody—not even Tinfoil—can peek inside it. You can read more about all the technical details in our documentation: https://docs.tinfoil.sh/verification/secure-enclave-primer In summary, you get: • End-to-end encryption and privacy from everyone, including Tinfoil. • The latest and most powerful open-source models. • Fully verifiable privacy through open-source code transparency, secure hardware, and public auditability. SUPPORT • Visit: https://tinfoil.sh • Source code for this application: https://github.com/tinfoilsh/tinfoil-ios • Follow us: @TinfoilAI on X LEGAL • Tinfoil Privacy Policy: https://tinfoil.sh/privacy • Tinfoil Terms of Use: https://tinfoil.sh/terms • Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Tinfoil4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Ask Safely at free against Tinfoil's freemium. Ask Safely also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Tinfoil's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ask Safely sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $10.00 per month and Tinfoil sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Ask Safely against 4.8 for Tinfoil. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 32 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Ask Safely's written reviews are positive against 80% of Tinfoil's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ask Safely ships an update weekly, Tinfoil every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ask Safely versus Tinfoil: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAsk SafelyTinfoil
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (38 ratings) — better4.8 (32 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings38 — better32
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.218.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB98 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperSafeLife Inc.Tinfoil, Inc

Customer experience

Ask Safely

All ratings38 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tinfoil

All ratings32 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Ask Safely

Subscriptions6
  • AskSafely Expert Founding Monthly$10.001 Month
  • AskSafely Expert Monthly Discount1 Month trial$12.001 Month
  • AskSafely Expert Standard Monthly$20.001 Month
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  • AskSafely Expert Founding Annual$100.001 Year
  • AskSafely Expert Annual Discount1 Month trial$119.991 Year
  • AskSafely Expert Standard Annual1 Year trial$200.001 Year
1 purchases

Tinfoil

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Chat Subscription$19.991 Month

Questions

Is Ask Safely free?
Ask Safely is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tinfoil free?
Tinfoil is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ask Safely or Tinfoil?
Ask Safely is rated higher. Ask Safely averages 4.9 out of 5 from 38 ratings, while Tinfoil averages 4.8 from 32 ratings.
Do Ask Safely or Tinfoil have ads?
Neither Ask Safely nor Tinfoil shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ask Safely or Tinfoil?
Ask Safely ships an update weekly, and Tinfoil every 3 days. Most recently, Ask Safely was updated on October 25, 2026 and Tinfoil on October 24, 2026.

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