Ask Safely vs Solair AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ask Safely
Get clear, plain-English answers from an AI assistant for your questions and documents. It can also check texts, emails, or links for scams and help you draft responses. Save important information and have your chats automatically cleared on a timer.
- AI-powered plain-English answers
- Scam detection for texts, emails, links
- Document and bill explanation
- Drafting assistance for emails and notes
- Configurable chat auto-clear timer
- Save important information to Knowledgebook
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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: 7 days by default, or 8 hours 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, unlimited photo and file uploads, About you plus three Knowledgebooks, and one free try each of Researcher, Writer, Deep Research and a voice conversation. Expert is $20 a month, or $100 for your first year (launch offer through December 1), 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/
Solair AI
This app provides powerful AI capabilities directly on your device, ensuring complete privacy for your conversations, health data, and documents. It offers various AI models for different tasks, including image analysis and document summarization, with optional web search for up-to-date information.
- 100% On-Device AI Processing
- Auto Mode for Task-Specific Models
- Complete Privacy and No Data Collection
- Health Intelligence with Apple Health Integration
- Voice Mode for Spoken Conversations
- Personal Memory and Document Analysis
- Multiple AI Models and Vision Capabilities
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Private by default. Frontier when you want it. Solair puts every kind of AI in your pocket, and keeps it private. Run powerful models fully on-device with no account and no internet, or connect Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and more when you want the frontier. Create images along the way, and keep every one in a gallery of your own. RUN AI ON YOUR DEVICE • 100% on-device models, no account, no sign-up, no tracking. Once a model downloads, everything works offline. • Your conversations, photos, health data, and documents are processed locally and never leave your device. • Auto Mode picks the right model for each message: Fast for quick questions, Smart for deep reasoning, Vision for photos and documents. • A duress code and fully local processing mean no one can read your data, not even us. BRING YOUR FAVORITE AI • Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Kimi, DeepSeek, Mistral, and more in one tap, just paste your API key. • Send photos, PDFs, and videos, watch reasoning models think, and generate images where supported. • Real web research: cloud models search the web themselves and show every source they read. • With your permission, they can read your health, calendar, and weather, and chart it for you. • Tokens, estimated spend, and voice minutes tracked per provider. • Your memory and past chats stay on your device unless you choose to share them. CREATE IMAGES, AND KEEP THEM ALL • Generate images right in your conversation. Choose the quality, the shape, and how many, and see what each option costs before you create. • Every image you make lands in a gallery of your own: folders you name, favorites, and full-screen browsing. • Pinch to zoom, swipe to move through them, and see them in real HDR that glows on your display. • Jump from any image straight back to the conversation that created it. TALK TO IT • Live voice conversations with ChatGPT and Grok, interrupt anytime, and the whole talk lands in your chat as a transcript. • Every other provider gets a voice on-device, only text ever leaves your phone, never audio, and live transcription types your words as you speak. MORE TO LOVE • Build your own apps (beta): describe one in a sentence and Solair makes a real, working app that runs offline. Four finished apps are included. • Scheduled tasks: give Solair a job and a time, and the answer arrives as a notification, all on your device. • Personas: chat with friends, historical figures, or build your own. • Personal memory that learns your preferences, and document analysis with instant summaries. • Health intelligence, ask about steps, sleep, and workouts from Apple Health, all on-device. Informational only, not medical advice. • Connect to your own server (Ollama and more) securely over Tailscale. • A beautiful Liquid Glass interface for iOS 26, with an engine switcher, sidebar search, and customizable themes. • Models included: Qwen3 & 3.5, Llama 3.2, Mistral, Gemma 3, plus coding, lightweight, and vision models like Qwen VL and LFM2.5. WHY SOLAIR Most AI apps send everything to the cloud. Solair runs on your device first, so your private data stays private, and reaches for the cloud only when you choose. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone A14 or newer, iPad A12 or newer, Mac with Apple Silicon. iOS 26 or later. 500MB to 5GB per on-device model. Solair is free with no ads. Optional tips support development but never lock features. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ask Safely at 4.9 against Solair AI's 4.4. Ask Safely also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 81%) and iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.0). Solair AI's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, ratings volume, 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. Ask Safely sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $10.00 per month and Solair AI sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ask Safely holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 39 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Ask Safely's written reviews are positive against 81% of Solair AI's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ask Safely | Solair AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (38 ratings) — better | 4.4 (39 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 81.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 38 | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SafeLife Inc. | Simon Majar |
Customer experience
Ask Safely
Solair AI
In-app purchases
Ask Safely
- 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
Solair AI
- Coffee tip$3.99
- Pizza$9.99
- Thank you$19.99









