Banana API vs OpenResponses
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Banana API
This tool simplifies testing AI image generation APIs like Google's Imagen and Nano Banana. It allows users to experiment with prompts and parameters, generate images, and review API calls and responses. The app requires users to provide their own API key and is designed for developers, marketers, and hobbyists.
- Test Google Imagen and Nano Banana APIs
- Generate unlimited images with own API key
- Experiment with prompts and parameters
- Review cURL requests and responses
- Save and share generated AI images
- Easy-to-use interface
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A simple yet powerful client for testing Google’s Imagen and Nano Banana APIs. Whether you’re a beginner developer, marketer, or vibe-coder, Banana API makes experimenting with image generation easy and fun. Write a prompt, select aspect ratio and parameters, while Banana API writes the code for you. Submit the API call and review the responses, keep a log of all your API calls and images generated. With Banana API you can: - Enter your own Google Cloud API key to generate unlimited images. - Preview and send API calls instantly with a clean, easy-to-use interface. - Experiment with prompts, aspect ratios, sizes, and generation settings. - View and review your full cURL requests and responses for learning and debugging. - Save or share your generated AI images directly from the app. IMPORTANT INFORMATION This is a client app only. Banana API does not include an API key or access credits. You must provide your own valid Google Cloud API key. Charges may apply. Usage of Google Imagen and Nano Banana through this app will incur costs billed directly by Google Cloud, based on your account and API usage. Stable connection required. A strong and reliable Wi-Fi or mobile data connection is necessary for best performance. No subscription, no hidden fees. Pay once and keep using the app as long as you have your own API key. WHO IS IT FOR? Banana API is designed for: -Developers who want to test APIs quickly from their iPhone. -Marketers and creatives exploring AI-generated images for campaigns. -Students, hobbyists, and low-code makers who want to learn by experimenting. Banana API makes testing AI image APIs approachable, portable, and fun. All while keeping you in control.
OpenResponses
This native client provides advanced control and observability for AI models. It allows users to stream responses in real-time, inspect requests, and utilize various OpenAI models with a fast interface. Features include web search, code interpretation, and image generation.
- Real-time response streaming
- Request inspector for API details
- Prompt library and advanced model controls
- Web search and code interpreter tools
- Image generation capabilities
- Direct Notion and Apple system tool integration
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OpenResponses is OpenAI's API on your iPhone and iPad, with nothing hidden. Bring your own API key and it shows you the request before it goes out, the events as they stream back, and every tool call along the way. It's for people who build with OpenAI's models, or who just want to see what the newest ones actually do before writing any code. It started as the successor to OpenAssistant, my app for OpenAI's older Assistants API, and talks straight to OpenAI's Responses API with no server of mine in between. PICK A MODEL AND SEE WHAT IT DOES • GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Sol, Astra and Luna, the GPT-5.6 family, and older models your key can still use. When OpenAI releases a new one, it shows up in the menu on its own, with its settings read from OpenAI's docs. • Reasoning from None to Max where the model takes it, Pro mode, verbosity, context compaction and the rest of the request settings, all in one place. • Replies stream in as they're written, with the reasoning summaries the API sends, token use, and the full request and response a tap away. • Save setups as presets, attach photos and documents, export conversations, and search your chats by what they're about, not just the exact words. THE TOOLS THE API HAS • Web search with sources, Code Interpreter, file search over your own vector stores, and image generation and editing with GPT Image 2.5, up to Max quality. • Voice conversations with GPT Realtime 2.1 or GPT-Live 1, with mute, and with headphones and Voice Barge-In on you can talk over it to cut it off. • A browser the model can drive, inside the app, with Stop, time limits and action limits. • MCP connections. Sign in to supported apps or add a server by address, look through the tools it offers, and approve tool calls unless you turn that off. • Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and Notion, only when you turn them on. • Local Python. The model writes it, you read it, you tap Run, and it runs on your phone. Standard library, no internet, 30 seconds a run. API WORKBENCH For when you'd rather write the request yourself. Edit the raw JSON, send it over HTTP, streaming or WebSocket, watch every event come back, and export the whole response. It also counts tokens, compacts context, and manages conversations, files, vector stores, containers and batch jobs. Anything that deletes asks first. A few things worth knowing before you download it: • There's no OpenResponses account. You need your own OpenAI API key, and what you use is billed to your OpenAI account. • Your key stays in the iOS Keychain and only ever goes to OpenAI. • Explore Demo lets you look around without a key, and it sends nothing. • Before your first live request, the app shows what gets sent to OpenAI and waits for you to say yes. • It runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later. One last thing. This shows you what OpenAI's models do, and they can be wrong, sometimes confidently. Check anything that matters before you act on it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: OpenResponses at Free against Banana API's $2.99. OpenResponses also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
OpenResponses is free to download; Banana API costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Banana API ships an update every 2 months, OpenResponses every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 12, 2026.
| Parameter | Banana API | OpenResponses |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Claudio Gonzalez | Gunnar Hostetler |
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In-app purchases
Banana API
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









