Comparison

HopPT vs Poly_Chat

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

Head to head
About

HopPT

Features
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HopPT offers a complete chatbot experience for any LLM API provider. It is also great to access your local models. The web search functionality uses serper.dev for searching, but the whole pipeline runs on your device. Your conversations are just between you and your LLM. We are very proud of the web search performance. Instructions: -Add an endpoint in settings (with API Key if required). -Press Manage Models, select the models from that endpoint that you want to be able to see in the model selector. -If you want to use web search, add your serper.dev API Key. -For a very slight improvement in web search answer quality (but a slight hit on context window and speed) you can add a jina.ai API Key to outsource the url scraping to Jina Reader. We recommend using the local WebKit solution. For an optimal web search experience we advise not to use thinking models when you enable the web search functionality. We also advise to use web search with models that are faster than 20 tokens per second in token generation and 200 token per second in prompt processing speed (web search context is on average 8k tokens, but it can reach 30/40k for complex searches). The app also has a fully local whisper-v3-large-turbo model that the user has to download and compile in settings. It will stay compiled throughout sessions without occupying RAM space. The transcription functionality is a super cool thing by itself. It's 15x faster than real life speed and is fully local. You can try a voice-only bonus functionality (for better voice quality download premium voices on your iPhone's settings)

About

Poly_Chat

Features
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This is a private, free, secure AI chat assistant powered by open-source models and Ollama. You can choose from a range of hosted models and explore their capabilities. It supports high-quality Markdown, web search, and document and image processing. All your data is stored locally on your device โ€” never on external servers.

Screenshots

HopPT2 screens
Poly_Chat4 screens

Verdict

The call

HopPT and Poly_Chat are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
HopPT versus Poly_Chat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHopPTPoly_Chat
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.2 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size7 MB31 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPerma Evidence SAGeorge Hunn

In-app purchases

None

HopPT

No in-app purchases

None

Poly_Chat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HopPT free?
HopPT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Poly_Chat free?
Poly_Chat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HopPT or Poly_Chat have ads?
Neither HopPT nor Poly_Chat shows ads.

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