Comparison

灵光 vs Pairlet

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

Head to head
About

灵光

This AI-powered assistant helps manage complex tasks and daily affairs. It understands goals, organizes steps, and proactively tracks progress from start to finish. Connect to services to save money and time, and receive timely reminders for important events.

Highlights
  • Proactive AI task management
  • Service integration for savings
  • Continuous progress tracking
  • Task status visualization
  • Creative content generation
  • Secure credential management
Features
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蚂蚁集团旗下灵光 App全新升级2.0,为每个人带来一个更主动、能持续跟进和管理复杂事情的AI助手。 你只需把复杂、琐碎的事情交给灵光,它会自己理解目标、理清思路、组织步骤,主动把事情推进下去,把你交代的事从头跟到尾。 灵光,让复杂,变简单。 ——核心功能—— 【生活大小事,灵光「帮我管」】 电商大促买手机,从挑选机型、多平台优惠比价,到降价提醒,帮你持续跟进;宝宝辅食从每周餐单、采购备餐,到进食反馈和后续调整。围绕同一件事统筹安排,记住你的偏好,让每次沟通都接得上。 【连接常用服务,帮你省钱省事】 各类平台会员每个月还在扣钱?授权连接支付宝,灵光帮你核对续费服务、梳理扣款记录,算清累计支出,发现容易忽略的花费。也能连接钉钉、飞书、滴滴出行及智能硬件,串联日常信息与服务,减少来回切换。 【离开对话,也能持续推进】 机票降价,演唱会开票、加场,出行天气和路况有变化……灵光按约定持续关注,在需要你留意或行动时主动提醒,并给出下一步建议,少一点反复查询和惦记。 【事情到哪一步,一眼就清楚】 房源看到哪、训练完成多少、购物花了多少,打开「帮我管」即可查看。计划、清单和记录随进展更新,已完成什么、接下来做什么,清清楚楚。 【随时问、随手创作,想法变成工具】 搜索问答、拍照识图、图片与视频创作,日常所需随时满足。一句话生成可交互、可编辑的闪应用,在灵光圈发现实用工具、探索有趣玩法,分享你的创意与作品。 【安心托付,全程守护】 灵光将 APASS 引入任务执行流程,为跨智能体、跨设备、跨应用与服务场景中的账号和授权凭证提供独立加密保护,让智能体无需直接接触授权密钥,也能安全地为你执行任务。授权可随时查看、调整或撤销,让智能体始终在你授权的范围内办事。

About

Pairlet

Control AI coding agents remotely from your iPhone. Monitor progress, respond to requests, and review code changes on your computer. Supports multiple agents and local-first design for security.

Highlights
  • Remote AI coding agent control
  • Monitor live output and background work
  • Approve or deny permission requests
  • Send prompts, images, and voice input
  • Review code changes and diffs
  • Pair and switch between multiple computers
Features
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Keep coding work moving when you are away from the keyboard. Pairlet (formerly CC Pocket) is an open-source, local-first companion for command-line AI coding agents. Your agent keeps running on your own Mac, Windows, or Linux computer, against your own checkout. From your iPhone or iPad, you can watch it work, answer permission requests, continue the same session, and review what changed. SUPPORTED AGENTS • Claude Code • Codex • OpenCode • Kimi Code (Preview) • ZCode • DeepSeek Harness (narrow support) WHAT YOU CAN DO • See projects, sessions, live output, tool calls, and background work • Allow or deny supported permission requests; unanswered requests fail closed • Send prompts, images, and voice input • Continue the same task without starting over • Review changed files and line-level diffs where the selected agent exposes them • Pair multiple computers and switch between them LOCAL-FIRST BY DESIGN The daemon runs on your computer and drives the agent CLI there. It makes an outbound connection, so you do not need to expose an inbound port. App-to-daemon traffic is end-to-end encrypted; the hosted relay only forwards ciphertext and does not hold your message content or private keys. No Pairlet account is required. You can also self-host the relay. HONEST CAPABILITY BOUNDARIES Agent backends are not equivalent. Approval, changed-files, usage, model controls, and other features depend on what each agent exposes. OpenCode has no enforceable interactive approval and runs with Full access. DeepSeek support is deliberately narrow: remote approvals fail closed, and changed-files, usage, and model switching are not available. Pairlet is MIT-licensed and built in Kotlin. Website and user guide: https://pairlet.org/en/ Source and security model: https://github.com/heypandax/pairlet

Screenshots

灵光4 screens
Pairlet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pairlet at 5.0 against 灵光's 4.1. Pairlet also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). 灵光's advantage is ratings volume (87 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pairlet holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 灵光 has 87 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of 灵光's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pairlet's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

灵光 ships an update every 10 days, Pairlet every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
灵光 versus Pairlet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter灵光Pairlet
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (87 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings87 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size287 MB72 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAlipay (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd.大鹏 李

Customer experience

灵光

All ratings87 ratings
Positive75.9%
Neutral2.3%
Negative21.8%
Written reviews131 reviews
Positive74.0%
Neutral3.8%
Negative22.1%

Pairlet

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

灵光

No in-app purchases

None

Pairlet

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 灵光 free?
灵光 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pairlet free?
Pairlet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 灵光 or Pairlet?
Pairlet is rated higher. 灵光 averages 4.1 out of 5 from 87 ratings, while Pairlet averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do 灵光 or Pairlet have ads?
Neither 灵光 nor Pairlet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 灵光 or Pairlet?
灵光 ships an update every 10 days, and Pairlet every 3 days. Most recently, 灵光 was updated on November 6, 2026 and Pairlet on October 31, 2026.

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