Ask Safely vs Bonfiyah
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/
Bonfiyah
Record, transcribe, and summarize in-person conversations. Automatically identify speakers and generate searchable transcripts with AI-powered insights like action items and decision tracking. Organizes conversations into projects for easy recall.
- In-person conversation recording
- Automatic transcription with speaker identification
- AI-generated summaries with topics and action items
- Searchable transcript archive
- Privacy-focused design with consent reminders
- Promise tracking and contradiction detection
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Bonfiyah records your in-person meetings and remembers who said what. Put your phone on the table and press record. No meeting bot joins and nobody else installs anything. When you stop, you get a transcript with each person's name on their own words, and an AI summary of what was decided and who owes what. The next time you meet the same people, Bonfiyah recognizes their voices and names them for you. Built for people whose work happens face to face: founders and investors, consultants, field and enterprise sales, researchers, and journalists. HOW IT WORKS Record. One tap, phone on the table. Recording carries on in the background and pauses cleanly if a call comes in. Up to 5 hours per recording. Read who said what. Bonfiyah separates the voices and puts a name on every line. Name a voice once and it stays named. Get the summary. Topics, decisions, action items and open questions, ready to read in the app or send by email. Meet again. The same people are recognized at your next meeting, so each person's history builds itself: the conversations they were in and what they said. ONE APP ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC Record on your iPhone, then read on your iPad or Mac. Your conversations, people and projects are the same on all three. PEOPLE, NOT FILES Everyone you record gets their own page with the conversations they were in and their consent status. Speaker Memory Health shows how well Bonfiyah knows each voice. CONSENT BUILT IN When you sign up you confirm, once, that you will get any consent the law requires from the people you record. It covers every recording, so there is no reminder before each one. New recordings start as Internal Use Only, and you can change that for any conversation. Keep track of each person's consent, and mark a conversation privileged (attorney-client) when it is. YOUR DATA Recordings are processed on our servers: AssemblyAI transcribes the audio and Anthropic's Claude writes the summaries and other AI results, both under terms that never use your conversations to train AI models. Original audio is deleted from our servers within 7 days. Your transcripts stay in your account until you delete them, and Pro and Pro AI also back up to your private iCloud. You can delete your account and its data from Settings at any time. PRO AI Everything in Pro, plus Pre-Brief notifications before meetings with people you have recorded, Promise Tracker for commitments made on either side, Contradictions across one person's statements over time, Speaker Insights, and Story Mode recaps. PLANS New accounts get 14 days of Pro and Pro AI. Basic (free): 120 minutes of transcription a month, 3 AI summaries a month, sending a meeting's recap to the people in it, 3 people tracked across recordings, 3 projects, full transcript search. Pro: unlimited recording, people and projects; unlimited AI summaries; Speaker Memory Health; email delivery; iCloud backup; auto-translation. Pro AI: everything in Pro, plus the features above. Pro and Pro AI are auto-renewing monthly subscriptions, charged at the price shown in the App Store at purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://bonfiyah.com/legal/privacy Terms of Service: https://bonfiyah.com/legal/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Ask Safely at 38 against Bonfiyah's 3. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 Bonfiyah sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Ask Safely against 5.0 for Bonfiyah. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ask Safely has 38 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ask Safely ships an update weekly, Bonfiyah every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ask Safely | Bonfiyah |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (38 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 199 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | SafeLife Inc. | Bonfiyah, Inc. |
Customer experience
Ask Safely
Bonfiyah
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
Bonfiyah
- Extra Device$2.991 Month
- Bonfiyah Pro$14.991 Month
- Bonfiyah Pro AI$19.991 Month
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- Extra Device$29.991 Year
- Bonfiyah Pro$160.991 Year
- Bonfiyah Pro AI$214.991 Year
- 12 Extra Hours$7.99









