Helloblue vs Blackwall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Helloblue
An AI-powered chat assistant for natural conversations and task completion on iPhone and iPad. Get quick answers, brainstorm ideas, and access assistance anytime through a simple and secure interface.
- AI-powered chat assistant
- Natural conversations
- Brainstorm ideas
- Get help with tasks
- Always available
- Simple and fast interface
- Secure conversations
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Helloblue is your AI-powered chat assistant. Have natural conversations, get answers, and get things done, all from your iPhone or iPad. • Chat with AI — Ask questions, brainstorm ideas, or get help with tasks • Always available — Access Helloblue wherever you are • Simple and fast — Clean interface, quick responses • Secure — Your conversations are handled with care Helloblue loads directly from helloblue.ai so you always have the latest experience. Download it FREE and start your accomplishment today.
Blackwall
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Turn on airplane mode. Ask it a question. It answers. Blackwall runs a language model on your iPhone or iPad. Not a thin client for someone else's server — the actual model, loaded into your device's memory, generating each word on your hardware. There is no account to create, no subscription, and no request leaving your phone. WHAT THAT MEANS IN PRACTICE Your conversations are never uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload them to. No history sitting in a company's database. No terms-of-service change that quietly starts training on your messages. Nothing to delete from a server, because nothing was ever on one. Blackwall works on a plane, on the subway, in a country where the usual assistants are blocked, and on a phone with no SIM. SEVEN CURRENT MODELS, YOUR CHOICE A small model is built in, so you can ask something the second you open the app. From there you pick what you want to run: • Qwen3.5 — 0.8B to 9B, from instant short answers to quality-first text work • Gemma 4 E2B — general chat plus image and document understanding • MiniCPM-V 4.6 — focused OCR for screenshots, receipts and documents • Phi-4 Mini Reasoning — English math and structured derivations Each optional download is resumable and checksum-verified. Blackwall tells you whether a model fits your device before you spend the bandwidth, and you can delete any of them later. Already have a model you like? Import any .gguf file and Blackwall will run it. READ, LISTEN, SUMMARISE — ALL ON DEVICE • OCR and image understanding: point it at a receipt, a screenshot, a whiteboard • PDF and text documents: summarise a contract without emailing it to anyone • Voice input using Apple's on-device speech recognition • Text-to-speech for replies • Local memory that carries context between conversations • Export any thread as Markdown, or share a reply as an image BUILT FOR THE DEVICE iPad split view with a docked thread list. Keyboard shortcuts. A home-screen and lock-screen widget. Siri Shortcuts — "Ask Blackwall" works with no signal. Two appearances: Terminal, the full neon look, with nine themes to pick from — or Standard, plain high-contrast type that follows your device's light or dark setting. Five typefaces. Adjustable text size. THE HONEST PART Local models are smaller than the ones running in datacentres. A 4B model on a phone will not match a frontier model on a server, and Blackwall does not pretend otherwise — it tells you what each model is good at and what it costs in storage, memory and speed. The one thing Blackwall downloads is the model file itself, from Hugging Face, when you ask it to. After that you can stay offline forever. Requires iOS 17. A device with 6 GB of memory is recommended for mid-size models; the 9B model requires 12 GB.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Helloblue at 15.0 against Blackwall's 17.0. 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 every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Helloblue | Blackwall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 522 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Helloblue Inc | Can Kirsallioba |
In-app purchases
Helloblue
No in-app purchases
Blackwall
No in-app purchases









