Maple Chat vs Buzz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maple Chat
This app offers an encrypted AI chatbot and assistant for private conversations on sensitive topics like health, finance, and legal matters. It utilizes leading open AI models running in secure enclaves, ensuring your data is never seen by the company. Analyze documents, ask about photos, and use voice input for a secure and intelligent AI experience.
- End-to-end encrypted chats
- Secure enclave AI model execution
- Document analysis (PDF/files)
- Image analysis
- Voice input mode
- Encrypted chat history sync
- Web search integration
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Maple Chat is a private AI chat app. Your chats are end-to-end encrypted, so Maple cannot see them. Ask about your health, your money, a contract or a hard conversation, and get answers from leading open AI models without handing your words to anyone. No one at Maple can read your chats. They are encrypted on your device and decrypted only inside a hardware-isolated secure enclave running open-source code you can verify. Since we can't read them, we can't train on them either. THE BEST OPEN MODELS, RUNNING PRIVATELY Maple runs leading open models in secure enclaves in the cloud. You get the speed and intelligence of cloud AI without draining your battery, and without giving up your privacy. Switch models in any chat. New models are added as they are released. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Chat about anything: long, thoughtful conversations on the topics you would never type into another AI app. • Analyze documents: attach a PDF or file and ask for a summary, the key points or what to watch out for. • Ask about photos: snap a picture and ask what you are looking at. • Talk instead of type: voice mode for fast, natural input. • Search the web: live, ad-free web results inside your private chat. • Pick up anywhere: your encrypted chat history syncs across iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web. BUILT FOR THE CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER • Health: understand a diagnosis, prepare questions for your doctor, organize notes. • Money: plan a budget, prepare for tax season, compare options. • Legal: read a lease or contract and understand what you are agreeing to. • Work: draft sensitive emails, summarize confidential documents, think through a decision. • Personal: journal, process a hard day or practice a difficult conversation. • Travel: translate menus, signs and conversations as you go. PRIVACY YOU CAN CHECK • End-to-end encryption for every chat. • Models run inside attested secure enclaves, so no third party can read your chats. • Your encryption key is managed for you inside the secure enclave. • Your chat history is stored encrypted. • Open-source code and cryptographic attestation let you verify how it works, at maple.ai/proof. FAIR QUESTIONS Can Maple read my chats? No. They're only decrypted inside a secure enclave. Will my chats train your models? We'd have to read them first. We can't. What if someone demands my chats? They'd get encrypted data. So would we. How do I know you're not bluffing? The code is open source. Check it yourself at maple.ai/proof. FREE TO START Create an account and start chatting in seconds. Upgrade for more advanced open models and more usage. Maple Chat: private AI that cannot see your chats. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://maple.ai/privacy
Buzz
This app provides a collaborative workspace for humans and AI agents to communicate and make decisions. It features real-time messaging, organized channels, and agents that can actively participate in the workspace, all built on a secure and auditable log.
- AI agent integration
- Real-time messaging
- Organized channels and threads
- Image and media sharing
- Self-hostable relay
- Audit trail for all events
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Buzz is a workspace where humans and AI agents share the same rooms. Every message, reaction, and decision is a signed event in one log — same identity model and audit trail whether the author is a person or a process. Add an agent to a channel the same way you add a teammate. Agents have their own keys, their own channel memberships, and their own audit trail — scoped by identity, not permission flags. • Organized channels and readable threads • Attach and discuss images and media • Real-time messaging on a relay you control • Agents that can act in the workspace, not just talk in it Built on Nostr. Self-hostable. The relay is yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Buzz at none against Maple Chat's 2. Maple Chat's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (75% vs 60%). 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. Maple Chat sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $23.00 per month. Buzz asks for nothing beyond the download.
Maple Chat holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 65 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Maple Chat's written reviews are positive against 60% of Buzz's.
Maple Chat ships an update every 6 days, Buzz every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 12, 2026.
| Parameter | Maple Chat | Buzz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (35 ratings) — better | 4.2 (65 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 35 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Maple Privacy Labs, Inc. | Block, Inc. |
Customer experience
Maple Chat
Buzz
In-app purchases
Maple Chat
- Maple Pro Monthly$23.001 Month
- Maple Max Monthly$114.991 Month
Buzz
No in-app purchases









