Llamates vs Thanks Bud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Llamates
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Get personalized notifications from your favorite AIs. Schedule prompts, receive reminders, and get news summaries - everything exactly when you need it. No more limiting yourself to one AI or switching apps and tabs looking for the best answer. Llamates allows you to interact with multiple AI chat services simultaneously, enabling side-by-side comparison and increasing the diversity of response sources to support broader perspectives and more nuanced insights. Its purpose is to provide tools to enhance productivity, creativity, and problem-solving.
Thanks Bud
Easily remember names and key details about people you know. Quickly search for individuals using partial information and access their details before social events. The app prioritizes privacy and stores data locally on your device.
- Save names and one key detail
- Search with partial names and details
- Organize people for events
- View relationships between people
- Optional phone number and email
- Share people or groups
- Local data storage
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Think back to the last wedding, school event, or neighborhood dinner. You knew their face and plenty about them. But when you needed a name, you had to wing it. Thanks Bud keeps names, relationships, and useful details together. Add a person with a name and one useful line. When you are about to see them, search a few letters, a typo, a saved headline, a connection, or a city. Open Thanks Bud before you say hello. Glance at the name, the people around them, and the line you wrote to bring the person back into focus. HOW IT HELPS - A name and one headline are enough to save someone. - Add or edit a person in one consistent form. Update their notes as you learn more about them. - Search works with partial names, typos, saved headlines, connection names and relationships, and saved cities. - Search Contacts, choose one person, then review before saving. Apple gives Thanks Bud only the contact you choose. - See local times for people’s saved cities together on Home or inside a group. Open a part of the day to see who is there. - See the people around someone, so names and relationships make sense together. - Switch Everyone or a group to Network to explore the connections you saved. A group’s network shows only its members and the saved connections between them. - Sort Everyone or a group by most viewed, recently added, city, or name. - Save an optional phone number and email address, then call, message, or email from the person’s card. Thanks Bud keeps no communication history. - Share one person or several people as a file. For one card, you choose the details and direct connections. When you share several cards, their connection rows stay private. QUIET UNTIL YOU NEED IT Thanks Bud sends no reminders, keeps no score, and never tells you that a relationship is overdue. Open it when you need a name, then carry on. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Thanks Bud stores your data on your iPhone. The app has no account, advertising, analytics, or tracking. The developer collects no data. Apple shows the contact picker and gives Thanks Bud only the person you choose. Thanks Bud does not request ongoing access to your contact list or change Apple Contacts. For Home’s weather and daylight, Thanks Bud sends Apple Weather the published coordinates of the city on Your Card. The request does not include a person’s name or your physical location. Thanks Bud never asks for location permission. When Thanks Bud prepares a recognition photo, it makes a smaller copy and removes private metadata. It does not change the original item in Photos. If you share a file or save a backup, you choose the action and the content. A new iPhone set up from a backup of your old one should bring your people across. You can also save a backup file yourself. FREE TO USE Cards, search, built-in groups, sharing, and backups are free. A one-time $7.99 US purchase unlocks custom groups you can name. There is no subscription. Thanks Bud is made for the people just outside your inner circle: relatives, neighbors, school parents, colleagues, and the familiar faces you want to greet by name.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Llamates at every 4 days against Thanks Bud's every 10 days. Llamates also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Llamates sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Thanks Bud sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Llamates ships an update every 4 days, Thanks Bud every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Llamates | Thanks Bud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Natalia Swierczyna | Nikhil Daftary |
In-app purchases
Llamates
- 500 credits$0.99
- 100 prompts$1.99
- 3000 credits$4.99
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- 1000 prompts$9.99
- 33000 credits$49.99
Thanks Bud
- Custom groups$7.99









