LoqAI vs BBS Manager

LoqAI is a private AI assistant that runs on your device. Besides chatting, it can now get things done in your mail, calendar, tasks, notes and contacts. Your conversations stay on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. NEW IN 2.0: AN ASSISTANT THAT TAKES ACTION Ask LoqAI to brief you on unread email, plan your day, add an event, create a reminder, save a note or find someone's email address. It picks the right tools and chains the steps itself, for example by looking up a contact and then drafting an email to them. MODULES • Mail — Connect any IMAP/SMTP account (iCloud, Gmail, Fastmail, GMX, WEB.DE and more). Read, search and reply, and let LoqAI summarize messages or draft answers. LoqAI connects directly to your mail provider and keeps your password in the Keychain. • Calendar — Your week at a glance. Create and edit events yourself or just ask. • Tasks — Your Reminders, sorted into overdue, today and upcoming. • Notes — Private notes stored on your device that LoqAI can save, search and update. • Contacts — Look up people, email addresses and phone numbers. Every module is optional. Turn modules on or off in Settings. LoqAI can only access your data after you grant permission. YOU STAY IN CONTROL LoqAI always asks before it sends an email or deletes anything. Every answer shows which tools were used, so you can see exactly what happened. TRULY PRIVATE AI The AI runs on your device. Your messages and conversations are not sent to a cloud AI service or to us. Mail only talks to your own mail provider. MULTIPLE AI OPTIONS • Apple Intelligence — Use Apple's built-in AI with no downloads required • Open-Source Models — Download and run powerful models from Hugging Face, including Qwen, Gemma, and more • Vision Models — Chat about images with multimodal AI that can see and understand photos WORKS OFFLINE Once a model is downloaded, you can chat anytime: on a plane, in the subway, or anywhere without internet. MORE TOOLS • Web reader, calculator, date and time • Football — Live scores and league standings NO SUBSCRIPTIONS LoqAI is free to use. No monthly fees, no token limits, no accounts required. Requirements: • iOS 26+ or macOS 26+ for Apple Intelligence • Downloadable models need device storage (about 1.5–30 GB per model) • Apple Silicon recommended for best performance

BBS Manager is an optional companion iOS application to your open-source Borg Backup Server. BBS Manager requires a paid monthly subscription in order to use the app with a 7-day free trial to test it out. BBS Manager does not provide any tunnel service to your Borg Backup Server installation – you'll need to provide the connectivity to access your server if it's behind your company firewall. KNOW BEFORE IT MATTERS Most backup failures are discovered weeks later, when you need the backup. BBS Manager gives you real-time status, errors, and even tells when a client goes offline for too long based on its client profile. Every alert is a per-device toggle, so your phone and your iPad can care about different things: • Backup failed, or completed with warnings • Backup completed — off by default, for those who like seeing "it ran" • Client offline, with how long it has been quiet • Scheduled backup missed because the client was offline • Storage running low • SSL certificate not renewing WATCH IT LIVE The dashboard shows your whole installation at a glance: clients online, jobs running with live progress, storage capacity, server health. Open a client for its plans, schedules, repositories and full backup history — including which runs finished with warnings, not just which failed. RUN IT FROM ANYWHERE • Trigger a backup now, edit, pause or resume a schedule • Manage local disks and remote SSH targets like Hetzner Storage Box, BorgBase and rsync.net • View, monitor, edit storage repos and perform maintenance tasks • Replace a client's API key instantly if one leaks • Organize machines with client profiles: laptops, servers, registers, each with its own schedule, retention and failure rules • Get notices about your SSL certificate that your agents depend on, and renew it with a tap if it's out-of-date • Even upgrade the server itself — it waits for running jobs, enters maintenance mode, upgrades and comes back on its own, with a single click YOUR SERVER, YOUR DATA BBS Manager talks directly to your server over your own TLS. Backup contents never pass through anyone else's cloud, and there is nothing to subscribe to on the server side — Borg Backup Server is an MIT-Licensed open-source orchestrator built on BorgBackup's proven deduplicating, encrypted backup engine created by Thomas Waldmann. For more info about Borg Backup Server, visit: https://borgbackupserver.com/ REQUIREMENTS Requires your own Borg Backup Server installation (v2.93 or later) — free download at borgbackupserver.com (MIT-Licensed). Spin it up on a Docker Container (or Bare Metal/VM) in just minutes and start backing up your data from Linux, Mac and Windows clients. Push notifications require the server's push service to be enabled. The BBS Manager app must be able to access your installation of Borg Backup Server over the internet or on your local LAN depending on how you have it configured. BBS Manager requires a monthly subscription in order to support the infrastructure and development of the app including the push notification service and the API integrations. BBS Manager is not open-source. Terms of Use: https://borgbackupserver.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://borgbackupserver.com/privacy