Silo AI vs Aether
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Silo AI
This AI assistant operates entirely on your device, ensuring all your conversations and data remain private and offline. It utilizes optimized models for language, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech, functioning even without an internet connection.
- On-device AI processing
- Private messaging
- Offline functionality
- Speech-to-text
- Text-to-speech
- Airplane Mode compatible
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Meet Silo, your private AI that lives on your iPhone. Silo keeps every message, recording, and response on-device using compact, optimized models for language (LLM), speech-to-text (STT), and text-to-speech (TTS). It even works in Airplane Mode.
Aether
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Aether turns every link you save into structured knowledge. Drop any URL — YouTube videos, Instagram posts, articles, research papers, blog posts — and AI automatically extracts, transcribes, analyzes, and summarizes the content into your personal searchable vault. HOW IT WORKS: 1. Share a link from any app (YouTube, Instagram, Safari, Chrome) 2. AI extracts content — transcribes videos, OCRs images, scrapes articles 3. Get rich AI-generated summaries with key insights and entities 4. Search your entire vault by meaning, not just keywords KEY FEATURES: • Instant Capture — Share from any app via iOS Share Extension • YouTube Transcription — Gemini AI transcribes video audio • Instagram Vision — AI analyzes carousel images with OCR • AI Summaries — Claude generates structured insights • Semantic Search — Find anything by meaning using vector embeddings • Auto-Labels — Content auto-organized by source (YouTube, Instagram, GitHub, etc.) • Bilingual — Full English and Turkish language support • Dark Mode — Beautiful obsidian dark interface SUPPORTED SOURCES: YouTube, Instagram, Twitter/X, Reddit, GitHub, Medium, Wikipedia, arXiv, Stack Overflow, Hacker News, and any web page. Your knowledge, always searchable, always yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Silo AI at every 3 days against Aether's weekly. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Silo AI ships an update every 3 days, Aether weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Silo AI | Aether |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tim Moreton | Critical Dynamics OU |
In-app purchases
Silo AI
No in-app purchases
Aether
No in-app purchases
