Ai vs Cabin AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ai
Access advanced AI models privately on your iPhone or iPad. Connect to your Gemini server to chat, generate content, and analyze text with complete control over your data.
- Private Gemini server connection
- Run large AI models
- Content generation
- Text analysis
- Customizable AI workflows
- iPhone and iPad support
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Unlock the full potential of AI with Private LLM. Connect to your private Gemini server and run large, advanced models with complete privacy and control. Chat, generate content, analyze text, and customize your AI workflow — right from your iPhone or iPad.
Cabin AI
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Cabin AI is an AI that lives on your iPhone. Not in a data centre, not on someone else's server. Right there in your pocket. Switch on Airplane Mode and it still answers. On a plane, in the hills, in a basement with one bar of signal. Your questions, drafts and photos stay on your iPhone, because there is nowhere else for them to go. START IN SECONDS Cabin uses Apple's built-in on-device model, so you can chat the moment you open it. No sign-up, no account, no waiting. WHO'S HOME? Invite more models to move in. Qwen, Gemma and Ministral each bring their own personality and get their own cabin with a colored window. Switch any time, even mid-conversation: the new model reads what came before and carries on. PACK FOR ANYTHING Packs give your models a speciality, with no signal needed: • Encyclopedia: up to 50,000 articles from Wikipedia • London: exact Tube and Elizabeth line routes • Country Essentials: plugs, tipping, time zones and emergency numbers for 240 countries • Survival: what to do when you're lost, cold or the power goes, from official guidance Replies show which pack they used. Find them all in Provisions, alongside your models. SHOW IT A PHOTO Snap a plant, a menu or a fridge full of leftovers and ask about it. For trickier questions, some models think it through step by step. Peek at their thinking, or tap Answer now if you're in a hurry. MOVING IN Models download in the background while you keep chatting, each pane of the window lighting up in your Dynamic Island. Cabin only offers models your iPhone can comfortably run. MADE TO FEEL AT HOME Clean, quiet and quick, like part of iOS. Replies can come as a ready-to-send draft you can pass straight to Messages. Tell it once how you like it to talk, and every model follows. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Open your iPhone Duo and Cabin spreads across both pages: chats on one side, the conversation on the other. YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No analytics. Chats stay on you them, and you can export them any time. Cabin only goes online to download a model or pack you asked for. GOOD TO KNOW • Cabin works on iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 14 or later. The built-in model needs Apple Intelligence; downloadable models need enough memory, and Cabin only shows what fits. • Models are a few gigabytes each and can download on Wi-Fi only. • Survival is practical guidance, not medical care. In an emergency, call your local emergency number first. Come in. The light's on.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cabin AI at 5.0 against Ai's 4.5. Cabin AI also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). Ai's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Cabin AI holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Ai ships an update monthly, Cabin AI every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ai | Cabin AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Michal Jach | Polen |
In-app purchases
Ai
No in-app purchases
Cabin AI
No in-app purchases









