Comparison

Solair AI vs Orvena

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

Head to head
About

Solair AI

This app provides powerful AI capabilities directly on your device, ensuring complete privacy for your conversations, health data, and documents. It offers various AI models for different tasks, including image analysis and document summarization, with optional web search for up-to-date information.

Highlights
  • 100% On-Device AI Processing
  • Auto Mode for Task-Specific Models
  • Complete Privacy and No Data Collection
  • Health Intelligence with Apple Health Integration
  • Voice Mode for Spoken Conversations
  • Personal Memory and Document Analysis
  • Multiple AI Models and Vision Capabilities
Features
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Private by default. Frontier when you want it. Solair puts every kind of AI in your pocket, and keeps it private. Run powerful models fully on-device with no account and no internet, or connect Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and more when you want the frontier. Create images along the way, and keep every one in a gallery of your own. RUN AI ON YOUR DEVICE • 100% on-device models, no account, no sign-up, no tracking. Once a model downloads, everything works offline. • Your conversations, photos, health data, and documents are processed locally and never leave your device. • Auto Mode picks the right model for each message: Fast for quick questions, Smart for deep reasoning, Vision for photos and documents. • A duress code and fully local processing mean no one can read your data, not even us. BRING YOUR FAVORITE AI • Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Kimi, DeepSeek, Mistral, and more in one tap, just paste your API key. • Send photos, PDFs, and videos, watch reasoning models think, and generate images where supported. • Real web research: cloud models search the web themselves and show every source they read. • With your permission, they can read your health, calendar, and weather, and chart it for you. • Tokens, estimated spend, and voice minutes tracked per provider. • Your memory and past chats stay on your device unless you choose to share them. CREATE IMAGES, AND KEEP THEM ALL • Generate images right in your conversation. Choose the quality, the shape, and how many, and see what each option costs before you create. • Every image you make lands in a gallery of your own: folders you name, favorites, and full-screen browsing. • Pinch to zoom, swipe to move through them, and see them in real HDR that glows on your display. • Jump from any image straight back to the conversation that created it. TALK TO IT • Live voice conversations with ChatGPT and Grok, interrupt anytime, and the whole talk lands in your chat as a transcript. • Every other provider gets a voice on-device, only text ever leaves your phone, never audio, and live transcription types your words as you speak. MORE TO LOVE • Build your own apps (beta): describe one in a sentence and Solair makes a real, working app that runs offline. Four finished apps are included. • Scheduled tasks: give Solair a job and a time, and the answer arrives as a notification, all on your device. • Personas: chat with friends, historical figures, or build your own. • Personal memory that learns your preferences, and document analysis with instant summaries. • Health intelligence, ask about steps, sleep, and workouts from Apple Health, all on-device. Informational only, not medical advice. • Connect to your own server (Ollama and more) securely over Tailscale. • A beautiful Liquid Glass interface for iOS 26, with an engine switcher, sidebar search, and customizable themes. • Models included: Qwen3 & 3.5, Llama 3.2, Mistral, Gemma 3, plus coding, lightweight, and vision models like Qwen VL and LFM2.5. WHY SOLAIR Most AI apps send everything to the cloud. Solair runs on your device first, so your private data stays private, and reaches for the cloud only when you choose. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone A14 or newer, iPad A12 or newer, Mac with Apple Silicon. iOS 26 or later. 500MB to 5GB per on-device model. Solair is free with no ads. Optional tips support development but never lock features. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Orvena

This AI assistant runs entirely on your device, keeping your conversations private. It integrates with your phone's tools like calendar, reminders, and maps, and offers optional cloud features for enhanced capabilities. A single purchase unlocks all advanced functionalities.

Highlights
  • On-device AI processing
  • Integrates with calendar, reminders, maps, photos, Apple Health
  • Action receipts and approval prompts
  • Siri, Shortcuts, and Action button integration
  • Privacy-focused architecture
  • Optional cloud model access
  • Connects to external services like Notion and GitHub
Features
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Orvena is a complete assistant that runs on your iPhone. Its models run locally, so conversations stay on your phone unless you choose a cloud model. There is no account, no Orvena server, and no analytics. ASK, AND IT GETS DONE Orvena works with the phone you already have: calendar, reminders, alarms and timers, maps and travel times, photos, Apple Health summaries, music, and files. Every action leaves a receipt you can read, and anything consequential asks for your approval before it runs. APPLE INTELLIGENCE, BUILT IN On iOS 27, Orvena can answer with Apple's on-device model, with nothing to download. It uses the same tools, receipts and approvals as Orvena's own model. You can also ask Orvena from Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight and the Action button, and get the answer right where you asked. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Privacy pages usually ask for trust. Orvena's is a list: everything the app can ever send is enumerated in a short ledger in the privacy policy. On-device features work without any data leaving the phone, and anything that could ever leave asks first through a named consent step. ONE PURCHASE UNLOCKS THE REST The on-device assistant, every phone tool, web search and reading, and image understanding are free, without limits or a trial clock. A single one-time purchase adds: • Voice conversations, with a natural voice generated on the device • Connections to services you use, like Notion, Linear, GitHub, Home Assistant, and any MCP server, with sign-in built in • Apple's Private Cloud Compute on iOS 27, a larger model on Apple's servers that doesn't keep your data, within a daily limit Apple sets • Cloud models with your own API key, when you want a bigger model • Scheduled tasks, so Orvena can check on things at the right time and report back There is no subscription.

Screenshots

Solair AI4 screens
Orvena4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Solair AI at free against Orvena's free with in-app purchases. Solair AI also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Orvena's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Solair AI sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Orvena sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Solair AI ships an update weekly, Orvena every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Solair AI versus Orvena: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSolair AIOrvena
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (40 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings40 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB80 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSimon MajarAgnieszka Sela

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Solair AI

One-time3
  • Coffee tip$3.99
  • Pizza$9.99
  • Thank you$19.99
1 purchases

Orvena

One-time1
  • Premium Unlock$14.99

Questions

Is Solair AI free?
Solair AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orvena free?
Orvena is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Solair AI or Orvena have ads?
Neither Solair AI nor Orvena shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Solair AI or Orvena?
Solair AI ships an update weekly, and Orvena every 3 days. Most recently, Solair AI was updated on November 9, 2026 and Orvena on November 12, 2026.

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