Ask vs Mash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ask
An intelligent voice assistant designed for pharmaceutical sales representatives. It allows for hands-free data access, call note recording, and instant insights to streamline administrative tasks and improve sales performance.
- Hands-free voice activation
- Automated call summaries and transcription
- Territory insights and physician search
- Smart data analysis for performance stats
- Secure and compliant data handling
- AI-generated coaching tips
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Maximize your impact in the field with Ask-Nova, the intelligent voice assistant built specifically for pharmaceutical sales representatives. Driving between clinics? Prepping for a meeting? Just say "Hey Nova" to access critical data, record call notes, and get instant insights—completely hands-free. Ask-Nova streamlines your administrative tasks so you can focus on what matters most: building relationships with healthcare providers. Key Features for Sales Success: Hands-Free "Hey Nova" Activation Keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel. Activate Nova with your voice to prepare for your next call or dictate notes immediately after leaving a clinic. Automated Call Summaries Never forget a detail. Record your post-call analysis and let Nova transcribe and summarize the key points instantly. Track sentiment, coaching tips, and action items automatically. Territory Insights Manage your territory effortlessly. Search for physicians by name or specialty, view clinic details, and access a history of your past conversations and visits in one secure dashboard. Smart Data Analysis Need to know your performance stats or recent trends? Ask Nova to analyze your data and get real-time answers without digging through spreadsheets. Secure & Compliant Built with enterprise-grade security and standard encryption (HTTPS/TLS) to ensure all sensitive business data remains protected. Why Ask-Nova? Save Time: Reduce admin work by up to 50% with voice-first data entry. Stay Prepared: Get a quick refresher on a physician's history before walking through the door. Drive Performance: Use AI-generated coaching tips to improve your sales conversations.
Mash
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Mash is your AI personal relationship manager: a personal CRM and second brain for the people in your work and your life. Say what matters after a call, a meeting or a dinner, and Mash remembers it. Then chat with Mash to prep, brainstorm and draft from everything you've told it, like a coworker who never forgets. What you know about people is scattered across notes, voice memos, contacts and your own memory. Follow-ups slip, promises get forgotten, and the details that make a relationship, like a kid's name or a client's deadline, fade. Mash gives you one place to capture it, built around the people it's about. RECORD A MEMO Right after a coffee, a client call or a catch-up with a friend, say what you learned in your own words. Mash transcribes it and tidies up the transcript when you're done. • "Marcus wants the proposal before Thursday, and his team is opening a Miami office." • "Grandma turns 90 on June 14. Sam is planning a surprise dinner." RECORD A MEETING Record the conversation so the details and commitments stay with you, not just in your head. Get everyone's consent before you record. YOUR PEOPLE, KEPT CURRENT Mash files what you capture to the right person: birthdays, partners, kids' names, a client's role and how you met. COWORK WITH MASH Type a request in the app, the way you'd ask a coworker or a friend with a perfect memory. No need to speak. It works from everything you've captured: prepping you before a meeting, answering questions, brainstorming ideas and drafting what you need to send. For work: • "Prep me for my call with Priya: what did we last talk about, and what did I promise?" • "Draft a follow-up email from today's client meeting." • "Give me three ways to reopen the conversation with Marcus." • "Summarize everything I know about the Webb Partners deal." For life: • "What does Grandma want for her birthday? Give me a few gift ideas." • "Catch me up on Jordan before dinner tonight." • "Help me plan Sam's surprise party from my notes." • "Write a thank-you note to my neighbor for watching the dog." FOR YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIFE A second brain for your book of business: every client, colleague and commitment, captured from a quick voice note. Built for people whose network is their work: advisors and wealth managers, real estate agents, salespeople, founders, consultants, recruiters and dealmakers. Walk into every conversation knowing what you last talked about and what you promised. FOR YOUR PERSONAL LIFE Birthdays, plans and the little things your family and friends tell you. Keep up with the people you love without keeping another list. GETTING STARTED 1. Sign in with Apple, Google or Microsoft. There's no Mash password. 2. Tap Record to capture a memo or a meeting. 3. Chat with Mash to prep, ask, brainstorm or draft. Your account starts empty. Mash learns only from what you record. YOUR DATA, YOUR CONTROL Your notes belong to you. Mash doesn't sell your information. Tap your initials in the top-right corner to read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, or to delete your account and data at any time. Mash is for adults 18+ in the United States and Canada (outside Quebec).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Ask at 17.0 against Mash's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ask | Mash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | NOVA IA Inc. | Mash (12845393 Canada Inc.) |
In-app purchases
Ask
No in-app purchases
Mash
No in-app purchases









