Comparison

Clients vs MLX

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

Head to head
About

Clients

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Stop opening three apps every time a client calls. Clients is a native iPhone, iPad, and Mac app that connects your contacts, your notes, and your projects in one app. Your client history, your active projects, and your follow-ups all live together, so you always know where things stand before you pick up the phone, go into a meeting, or send that email. It's not trying to replace your project management or your contacts app or your notes app. It's all three, in one app. CLIENTS, NOTES, AND PROJECTS, CONNECTED Most apps keep your clients in one place and your work in another. Clients links them. Every client has their own projects, conversation history, notes, and follow-ups, so the context you need is always one tap away. A DASHBOARD THAT TELLS YOU WHAT NEEDS YOU Open the app to a short written summary of your day, then Today, Upcoming, and Recent Issues. See what's overdue, who you're waiting on, and which follow-ups you owe, and tap any of it to go straight there. CLIENT HISTORY Log every call, meeting, and email as it happens. Each client has a running timeline and a relationship status, so you always know what was said and whose move it is. WORKS WITH APPLE CONTACTS, CALENDAR, AND REMINDERS Choose the people you want to track from Apple Contacts. Their details stay in one place and stay up to date. Meetings go into Apple Calendar and follow-ups into Apple Reminders, so they show up on every device you own. PROJECTS, MILESTONES, AND ISSUES Track every project from start to finish with milestones, issues, and sub-issues. Organize work with teams, tags, statuses, and priorities, without the complexity of tools built for large teams. LISTS AND BOARDS View projects, issues, and clients as a list or as a board, grouped and sorted the way you work. Drag a card to change its status, and add an issue straight into a column. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS Log a call, add an issue, set a follow-up, or ask what's due today, without opening the app. FAST, HOWEVER MUCH YOU TRACK Clients 2 was rebuilt for speed. It opens instantly whether you have a handful of issues or thousands. AND MORE • Favorites in the sidebar for your most active clients and projects • Search across projects, issues, and people • Export issues as PDF, Text, CSV, or JSON • Four themes, including a near-monochrome Noir • On Mac, share a list from an email and turn each line into an issue • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac Built for people who manage their own clients and do the work themselves. No enterprise features you'll never use. Just the context you need, without the complexity you don't.

About

MLX

This AI studio runs entirely on your device, processing conversations, voice recordings, and generated images locally. It offers hands-free calling, voice cloning, and image generation without any account creation, subscriptions, or tracking.

Highlights
  • On-device AI processing
  • Hands-free voice calls
  • Personalized voice cloning
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Offline model functionality
  • No account or tracking
Features
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MLX-Serve is a private AI studio that runs entirely on your iPhone. Every conversation, voice recording, and generated image is processed on-device by open-weight models — nothing you type, say, or create ever leaves your phone. There is no account to create, no subscription, and no tracking of any kind. MUSIC Generate songs locally using your device ! You can also play it back in the background and use MLX-Serve as a player for your generated music on the go. CHAT Talk with capable open language models (Google Gemma 4) right on your device. Ask questions, brainstorm, draft messages, get things explained. Some models can even understand photos you attach. CALL Tap Call inside any conversation to talk to the AI hands-free, like a phone call. Your speech is transcribed on-device and the reply is read back aloud. Speaker and handset modes are both supported, and the transcript is saved to your chat. VOICE CLONE Record about eight seconds of your voice and have the AI speak text in your own voice, using an on-device text-to-speech model. Great for narration and fun. IMAGES Generate images from a text prompt with an on-device diffusion model (FLUX.2). Tap a result to zoom in, save it to your photo library, or share it. FULLY PRIVATE, FULLY OFFLINE - Runs 100% on-device using Apple MLX and the Metal GPU. - No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. - The network is used only to download the AI models you choose from Hugging Face. After a model is downloaded, that feature works offline. REQUIREMENTS Models are multi-gigabyte downloads and on-device AI is demanding, so MLX Chat requires a recent, high-performance iPhone. Download over Wi-Fi is recommended. You pick which models to download and can delete them anytime to reclaim space. Open models are provided under their respective licenses (Gemma, Apache 2.0). MLX Chat is an independent app and is not affiliated with Google or Apple.

Screenshots

Clients4 screens
MLX4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MLX at Free against Clients's $9.99. Clients's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

MLX is free to download; Clients costs $9.99 up front. MLX sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Clients asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clients ships an update weekly, MLX every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Clients versus MLX: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClientsMLX
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating—4.6 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—10 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS27.026.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB211 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDavid WilderDavid Dalcu

In-app purchases

None

Clients

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

MLX

One-time1
  • Music Generation2 variants$4.99

Questions

Is Clients free?
Clients costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MLX free?
MLX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Clients or MLX have ads?
Neither Clients nor MLX shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clients or MLX?
Clients ships an update weekly, and MLX every 3 weeks. Most recently, Clients was updated on November 8, 2026 and MLX on November 5, 2026.

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