Comparison

Nexural vs Gadeon

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

Head to head
About

Nexural

This AI assistant processes your prompts locally on your iPhone, ensuring privacy and offline functionality. It allows you to ask questions, write, summarize, brainstorm, and plan without sending data to external servers. An optional subscription unlocks premium models and advanced performance features.

Highlights
  • On-device AI processing
  • Offline functionality
  • No account required
  • No chat training
  • Selective sharing
  • Premium model access (Pro)
Features
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Nexural is a privacy-first AI assistant that runs directly on your iPhone. Ask questions, write, summarize, brainstorm, and plan — without sending your prompts to a server for processing. WHY NexurAl • On-device inference: your prompts are processed locally during normal use • Works offline (after setup) • No accounts required • No training on your chats • Share only when you choose HOW IT WORKS Language models are the “brain” behind an AI assistant. NexurAl runs a model on your device (bundled with the app or downloaded in the app). Your text stays on your iPhone, and responses are generated locally. NEXURAL PRO (Subscription Required): Upgrade to unlock the full power of local on-device AI: - Premium Model Catalog: Access our full library of advanced, high-parameter models. - Pro Optimizations: Experience peak performance and security with Metal Acceleration, Speculative Decoding, Context Compression, Thermal Guard, Streaming Tokens, and the Encrypted Vault. PRIVACY IS THE FEATURE Many AI tools rely on the cloud. That can mean your private text is transmitted to servers and may be stored or used to improve models (depending on the provider). Nexural avoids that tradeoff by keeping AI processing on your device. IMPORTANT NOTE AI outputs can be inaccurate. Don’t rely on NexurAl for medical, legal, financial, or emergency decisions. Support: support@nexural.net Privacy policy: https://nexural.net/privacy.html

About

Gadeon

Features
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Gadeon runs Qwen3.5 and QwenPaw hybrid language models entirely on your device's Apple Neural Engine, using Core ML as its only framework dependency. There's no C, no Python, and no cloud calls: every token is generated locally, keeping your conversations private. Under the hood, these models mix Gated DeltaNet recurrent layers with a smaller number of attention layers. Gadeon compiles that hybrid architecture directly onto the Neural Engine's dataflow accelerator, so both prompt processing (prefill) and token generation (decode) run on-chip instead of falling back to the CPU or GPU. On an Apple Silicon Mac, prefill measures roughly 2 to 2.4 times faster and about 4.4 times more energy-efficient per token than a Metal GPU baseline, while leaving the GPU free for other work. Conversations in Gadeon are append-only: each turn extends the model's fixed-size recurrent state instead of re-processing the entire chat history, so response latency doesn't grow as a conversation gets longer. The app can also roll back to an earlier point in a conversation, dropping reasoning traces or replaying tool calls in a clean form without reprocessing everything from scratch. For ternary-quantized models, Gadeon switches to a pure-Swift Metal GPU backend behind the same session and tokenizer interface, so both compute paths feel identical from the chat UI. Gadeon is a proof of concept for bringing Gated DeltaNet hybrid models to the Neural Engine through Core ML - built to explore what's possible on Apple's own silicon.

Screenshots

Nexural4 screens
Gadeon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gadeon at none against Nexural's 3. Gadeon also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Nexural's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price, ads 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. Nexural sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Gadeon asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nexural ships an update every 4 days, Gadeon monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Nexural versus Gadeon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNexuralGadeon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB85 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperNexios Media LLCDmitry Kuznetsov

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Nexural

Subscriptions2
  • Nexural Pro Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Nexural Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Nexural Pro Lifetime$19.99
None

Gadeon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nexural free?
Nexural is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gadeon free?
Gadeon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Nexural or Gadeon have ads?
Neither Nexural nor Gadeon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nexural or Gadeon?
Nexural ships an update every 4 days, and Gadeon monthly. Most recently, Nexural was updated on October 28, 2026 and Gadeon on October 25, 2026.

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