Comparison

IdeAI vs Lilly

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

Head to head
About

IdeAI

This app creates a private, on-device memory layer for your digital history, allowing you to visualize cognitive patterns and provide AI tools with full context. It offers an encrypted, navigable atlas of your thoughts and conversations, ensuring data sovereignty and zero-knowledge privacy.

Highlights
  • On-device encrypted memory layer
  • Visualize cognitive patterns and thinking clusters
  • Provide AI tools with full conversation context
  • Import digital history (journals, social media, AI chats)
  • Zero-knowledge privacy with AES-256-GCM encryption
  • Data export and portability
Features
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ideAI is the privacy-preserving memory and context layer for humans and AI. You can't see your own cognitive patterns. Your AI can't remember yesterday. ideAI closes both gaps — an encrypted, on-device memory layer that you browse as a semantic atlas, and your AI tools access via MCP. One data layer. Zero trust required. FOR YOU: THE ATLAS Import your digital history — journal entries, Twitter, Reddit, Claude, ChatGPT conversations — and watch it compress into a navigable topology. Day summaries. Week and month views. Semantic collision graphs that show where your thinking clusters, diverges, and evolves across time. FOR YOUR AI: DATASHARD Give any AI you already use — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor — secure access to your Atlas via MCP. Every conversation starts with your full context, not a blank slate. Your AI finally has a memory. ON-DEVICE AI INSIGHT Chat with an on-device AI that has full context of everything you've written. It surfaces temporal patterns, semantic collisions, and recurring themes across months and years. Not advice — structure. ZERO-KNOWLEDGE PRIVACY AES-256-GCM encryption. On-device processing via Apple Foundation Models and MLX. Your data stays on your device. No servers see your content. No model trains on your thoughts. DATA SOVEREIGNTY You own all data in portable formats. You control all processing. You can export, delete, or migrate without loss. The value is in the instrument, not data captivity. Free to start. No account required.

About

Lilly

Features
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Lilly records, transcribes, and summarizes your meetings — entirely on your iPhone. No servers. No cloud. No account required. Everything happens on-device using advanced AI models: • Voice activity detection separates speech from silence • Speaker diarization identifies who said what • Transcription captures every word with timestamps • AI summarization writes your meeting notes automatically Your audio and transcripts never leave your phone. Not during processing, not ever. Lilly is for rooms where confidentiality is not optional — legal meetings, medical appointments, investor calls, sensitive 1-on-1s. FEATURES On-device AI All transcription and summarization runs locally. No account required. No data uploaded. Speaker identification Lilly detects and labels multiple speakers. Name them after the meeting — names apply across the full transcript and summary. Auto-generated notes After each recording, Lilly produces structured meeting notes in the same language as your conversation. Full transcript Browse the complete timestamped transcript, attributed to each speaker. Offline first After the one-time model download, Lilly works with no internet connection at all. PRIVACY No analytics. No telemetry. No crash reporting with content. The only network request Lilly ever makes is the one-time AI model download on first launch (~3.3 GB). Verify this yourself: iOS Settings > Privacy & Security > App Privacy Report. REQUIREMENTS Requires iPhone 16 or later (A18 chip) running iOS 18. First launch downloads ~3.3 GB of AI models. After that, fully offline.

Screenshots

IdeAI4 screens
Lilly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: IdeAI at Free against Lilly's $0.99. IdeAI also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Lilly's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

IdeAI is free to download; Lilly costs $0.99 up front. IdeAI sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Lilly asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

IdeAI holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
IdeAI versus Lilly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdeAILilly
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB54 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAleksander Allensamarvir singh

In-app purchases

4 purchases

IdeAI

Subscriptions4
  • DataShard$4.991 Month
  • Max$24.991 Month
  • DataShard$49.991 Year
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  • Max$199.991 Year
None

Lilly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IdeAI free?
IdeAI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lilly free?
Lilly costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, IdeAI or Lilly?
IdeAI is rated higher. IdeAI averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Lilly averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do IdeAI or Lilly have ads?
Neither IdeAI nor Lilly shows ads.

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