Comparison

Control vs Cloaked

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

Head to head
About

Control

Engage in private AI conversations with lightweight, open-source language models that run entirely on your device. Enjoy offline functionality and complete data protection without any data collection or sharing. Choose and switch between models to find the best AI assistant for your needs.

Highlights
  • Private AI conversations
  • Local LLM processing
  • Offline functionality
  • Data privacy
  • Model selection
  • No account required
Features
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Your AI conversations with complete privacy. Control is a free LLM interface that puts you in charge of your AI experience. Chat with lightweight open source language models while keeping your data completely private. These mobile-optimized models offer basic AI assistance with the trade-off of complete privacy and offline functionality - everything runs locally on your device. This is a basic tool. Privacy & Data Protection: All processing happens on your device with no data collection or sharing. Your conversations never leave your phone and no accounts, logins, or cloud storage are required. Works completely offline with zero network dependencies for chat, no tracking or analytics. Your data stays yours and history resets after every session or 24 hours, whichever comes first, ensuring no persistent data storage. Choice: Choose from various open source language models and switch between models instantly to find the perfect AI assistant for your specific needs. Free and open source with no subscriptions or hidden costs.

About

Cloaked

This AI chatbot runs entirely offline on your device, processing text and images locally for maximum privacy. It offers web search capabilities without sending your data to the cloud and supports a variety of open-source language models.

Highlights
  • Offline AI processing
  • Private text and image analysis
  • Built-in web search
  • Supports multiple open-source models
  • Intelligent memory persistence
  • AI reasoning visualization
Features
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Your next AI conversation - text, image, or document - stays on your device with your private AI assistant. Cloaked is the private AI chatbot that runs entirely offline on your iPhone or iPad. Type a question, attach a photo, or bring in a PDF and let the AI read, describe, or answer questions about it. No cloud servers. No accounts. No login. No tracking. Powerful open-source language models process everything on device, so your prompts, images and files never leave your hardware. If you have been looking for a secure, anonymous AI chatbot alternative to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini that works without an internet connection, this is it. Most AI assistants send every word you type and every file you share to a remote server. Cloaked takes a fundamentally different approach. The AI runs directly on your device using Apple's MLX framework, purpose-built for Apple Silicon. There is nothing to breach, nothing to leak, and nothing to sell. Your data stays yours. BRING YOUR DOCUMENTS - THEY NEVER LEAVE THE DEVICE Attach PDFs to any conversation and ask questions about them. Cloaked reads shorter documents in full and searches longer ones on device, using only the passages that matter so even large files fit. Everything is indexed and answered locally - contracts, medical letters, research papers, the kind of file you would never paste into a cloud chatbot. PRIVATE AI WITH BUILT-IN WEB SEARCH Ask questions that need real-time information and Cloaked will search the web using DuckDuckGo. Only the search query leaves your device. Results come back, the AI processes them locally, and your conversation remains private. Toggle web search per message with the globe icon, or let Smart Auto-Search decide when a search would help. No other on-device AI chat app gives you web search without sending your data to the cloud. SEE WHAT YOU SEE - PRIVATE IMAGE VISION Attach a photo and Cloaked's vision-capable models can describe scenes, read text in images, identify objects, or answer questions about what they show. Perfect for translating menus, understanding diagrams, or just asking "what is this?" about anything you photograph. No image ever leaves your phone. Available with Qwen 3.5 and other vision-enabled models. WATCH THE AI THINK Thinking Mode lets you see the AI reason through complex problems step by step before delivering a final answer. Follow the chain of thought as it works through logic, math, code, and writing. Available with Qwen 3, Qwen 3.5, and DeepSeek models. A private reasoning AI that never phones home. CHOOSE FROM THE TOP OPEN SOURCE MODELS Pick the right model for coding, writing, or everyday chat. Cloaked supports Llama, Qwen, Phi, DeepSeek, and Mistral in multiple sizes. Smaller models run fast on any supported iPhone. Larger models unlock deeper reasoning on Pro and iPad hardware. Every model is free, open source, and downloads directly to your device. INTELLIGENT MEMORY Cloaked remembers what matters across conversations. Preferences, facts, and context persist between chats so you never repeat yourself. Memory is stored locally and can be viewed, edited, or deleted at any time. AI AGENT FOR COMPLEX QUESTIONS The built-in agent chains multiple web searches and memory lookups to answer layered questions. It plans, searches, synthesizes, and answers autonomously - a private AI researcher that works entirely offline. BUILT FOR YOUR WORKFLOW Organize conversations into projects with custom system prompts for coding, writing, or any task. Set temperature, context length, and model defaults per project. Export conversations whenever you need them. Choose light, dark, or system themes with custom accent colors. PRIVACY IS THE ARCHITECTURE No network connections apart from model downloads and optional DuckDuckGo searches. No telemetry. No accounts. All data lives in a secure sandbox on your device. Delete everything with a single tap. This is not a privacy policy. It is the way the app is built. No exceptions.

Screenshots

Control3 screens
Cloaked4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Control at 5.0 against Cloaked's 4.2. Control also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). Cloaked's advantage is ratings volume (17 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

Control holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cloaked has 17 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Control ships an update every 5 days, Cloaked fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Control versus Cloaked: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControlCloaked
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.2 (17 ratings)
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings317 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.517.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB35 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperCarlos TarratsPixel Management

In-app purchases

None

Control

No in-app purchases

None

Cloaked

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Control free?
Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cloaked free?
Cloaked is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Control or Cloaked?
Control is rated higher. Control averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Cloaked averages 4.2 from 17 ratings.
Do Control or Cloaked have ads?
Neither Control nor Cloaked shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Control or Cloaked?
Control ships an update every 5 days, and Cloaked fortnightly. Most recently, Control was updated on October 30, 2026 and Cloaked on October 31, 2026.

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