Comparison

AskMe vs Nimbus8

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

Head to head
About

AskMe

This AI assistant offers a wide range of creative and productive tools without requiring any login. Generate music, create documents, edit images, build charts, write code, and chat with your PDFs using voice or text. It supports numerous file types and offers real-time web search.

Highlights
  • AI music and song creation
  • Voice conversations
  • Document generation (PPT, PDF, Word, Excel)
  • AI photo editing
  • Chat with PDFs
  • 3D chart building
  • Web search with sources
Features
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AskMe is your AI assistant — no login, no signup. Create original songs with lyrics, talk by voice, chat with PDFs, make PowerPoint slides and Excel files, generate and edit images, build 3D charts, write code and search the web. What you can do: • Create AI music & songs — original tracks with vocals and synced lyrics in any style or language (MP3) • Talk to AskMe — live voice conversations, hands-free, with replies read aloud • Create documents — PowerPoint slides, PDF reports, Word and Excel files ready to download • Edit photos with AI — describe the change and get a new version in seconds • Chat with PDFs and documents — upload a file and ask questions about it • Create charts — pie, bar, line, radar, heatmap, 3D and 25+ interactive types • Generate images — turn a text description into original AI art • Search the web — real-time answers with source links you can check • Write and debug code — with syntax highlighting and explanations • Translate text — any language, with full native script support • Summarise long documents, reports, contracts and research papers • Creative writing — poems, stories, essays, scripts and song lyrics Files you can upload: PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, CSV, JSON, TXT, MP3, WAV, PNG, JPG Charts you can build: Pie, bar, line, area, scatter, radar, heatmap, treemap, sunburst, sankey, funnel, gauge, candlestick, boxplot, network graph, tree, calendar, 3D bar, 3D scatter, surface and geographic maps. Great for: • Students — homework help, essay drafts, study notes and exam revision • Work — reports, meeting notes, spreadsheets, presentations and email drafts • Developers — code review, refactoring, regex, SQL and debugging • Creators — image generation, captions, scripts and brainstorming Why AskMe: • No account needed — open the app and start typing • Conversation history — your chats are saved and organised automatically • Clean dark and light themes — fast and distraction-free • Works everywhere — phone, tablet and web

About

Nimbus8

An on-device AI studio for iPhone and iPad, enabling local model execution for chat, coding, image generation, and more. Enjoy privacy with no data sent to servers for inference, with optional cloud features available.

Highlights
  • On-device AI model execution
  • Local chat and coding agents
  • Image generation and translation
  • Hybrid local/web search
  • Speech-to-text and text-to-speech
  • Background agents and scheduling
Features
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Nimbus8 is an on-device AI studio for iPhone and iPad. Run open models locally — chat, code, search, vision, image generation, audio, translation, and background agents — with nothing sent to Nimbus servers for inference. Gale (chat) is free forever. Download models from Hugging Face, attach photos and PDFs, and stream replies entirely on your device. Nimbus8 Pro (one-time in-app purchase) unlocks: • Cirrus — repo-aware coding agent with inline diffs • Ashe — confirm-first background agents and scheduled Hands • Mist — hybrid local search with optional web layer • Mirage — on-device image generation • Stratus — camera, OCR, and vision Q&A • Overture — speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and audio tools • Zephyr — on-device translation • Haze — cross-module memory and recall Built native in Swift with a Rust core. No Nimbus account required. Optional cloud inference. No telemetry. Models you choose are downloaded to your device and run locally. Processing stays on your phone unless you explicitly enable optional network features (such as web search or a BYOK cloud provider in Cirrus). Purchase Nimbus8 Pro once through Apple In-App Purchase. Restore anytime with your Apple ID. Family Sharing follows Apple's IAP rules. Privacy policy: https://trynimbus.org/privacy.html

Screenshots

AskMe4 screens
Nimbus83 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AskMe at none against Nimbus8's 2. AskMe also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). Nimbus8's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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

Both are free to download. Nimbus8 sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. AskMe asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AskMe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of AskMe's written reviews are positive against 89% of Nimbus8's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AskMe ships an update weekly, Nimbus8 every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
AskMe versus Nimbus8: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAskMeNimbus8
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better4.8 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better88.9% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better6
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB269 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperAli Reza FarahnakRobert Georges Jr.

Customer experience

AskMe

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Nimbus8

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

AskMe

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Nimbus8

One-time2
  • 3-day TrialFree
  • Nimbus8 Pro - Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is AskMe free?
AskMe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nimbus8 free?
Nimbus8 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, AskMe or Nimbus8?
AskMe is rated higher. AskMe averages 5.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Nimbus8 averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do AskMe or Nimbus8 have ads?
Neither AskMe nor Nimbus8 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AskMe or Nimbus8?
AskMe ships an update weekly, and Nimbus8 every 2 days. Most recently, AskMe was updated on November 5, 2026 and Nimbus8 on November 5, 2026.

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