Sesame vs SPECS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sesame
Engage in intelligent conversations with personalized AI agents. Explore ideas, get quick answers, and brainstorm solutions. Your private digital companion learns and grows with you, offering a unique and magical interaction experience.
- Conversational AI agents
- Personalized personalities
- Growing memory
- Web search and summarization
- Note-taking and reminders
- Private by design
- Incognito mode
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Sesame builds personal agents for curious people. Follow a thought. Work out an idea. Discover something new. Preview available now on iOS. Coming to intelligent eyewear in 2027. CONVERSATIONAL INTELLIGENCE Sesame agents are ultra-low latency conversation partners that know how to read the room. When to respond, when to listen, and when to get out of the way. When a conversation goes somewhere, your agent follows: searching the web, creating notes, setting reminders, and summarizing takeaways. NATURALLY PERSONALIZED Choose from Maya, Miles, Simone, or Charlie. Each has a distinct personality, a point of view, and memory that grows over time — through conversation, the way you'd actually get to know someone. Memory is continuous across voice and text, so nothing gets lost. Over time, your interactions become more personalized, more magical, and more useful. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your conversations are private. Delete your data anytime. Use Incognito mode and nothing is saved to memory or Sesame servers. No ads. No selling your data. Ever. HOW PEOPLE USE SESAME Curious Exploration: When something catches your attention, Sesame can help you with quick answers or a deep dive. Your agent knows when to go deeper, when to offer context, and when to connect one idea to another. Brainstorming: Some ideas only make sense once you've said them out loud. Sesame agents follow the thread, connect the dots, and help you take the first step. Personal Sounding Board: Before a hard conversation or a big call, Sesame helps you get clear. Talk through what you know and what you don't. Your agent asks the right questions and has no stake in the outcome. Privacy policy: https://www.sesame.com/privacy Terms of use: https://www.sesame.com/terms
SPECS
Virtually try on the newest generation of eyewear from the comfort of your home. Discover your ideal style and be among the first to pre-order your chosen frames.
- Virtual eyewear try-on
- Explore latest generation frames
- Find your perfect fit
- Pre-order new styles
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Meet SPECS, a computer built into see-through augmented reality glasses. Our vision is to make computing more human by helping you learn, work, play, create, and get things done together in the world around you. Explore SPECS and find your fit: Use the SPECS app to explore the latest SPECS AR glasses. See how they look on you with virtual try-on and find your fit, right from your iPhone. Discover what SPECS can do: With SPECS AR glasses, you can learn to draw with guidance on the paper in front of you, practice basketball with a real ball and hoop, or play dominoes with friends at the same table. The computer helps, but you're the one building the skill, making something, and connecting with other people. See-through lenses bring digital experiences into your surroundings, and you interact naturally with your hands and voice. We call this instinctual computing, built around how you see, think, and act. Technology should add to your life, not cut you out of it. Try a limited preview of SPECS Intelligence: Explore patterns in your time, attention, and relationships, and discover your Digital Love Language and Superpowers. You don't need SPECS AR glasses to try it. Join the waitlist for early access: Join the waitlist for early access to the fuller SPECS Intelligence experience, designed to work across Mac, iPhone, and SPECS AR glasses. We're building it to understand your goals, priorities, and routines and anticipate when help would be useful. Learn more about SPECS at specs.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Sesame at 1.9K against SPECS's 13. Sesame also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.1). SPECS's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Sesame against 5.0 for SPECS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sesame has 1.9K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Sesame's written reviews are positive against 100% of SPECS's.
Sesame ships an update weekly, SPECS monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sesame | SPECS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.9K ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 215 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sesame AI | Specs Inc |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Sesame
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









