Vellum Assistant vs Context Panel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vellum Assistant
This AI assistant learns your work habits and thought processes to help you stay on top of tasks. It syncs across devices, providing quick summaries of communications and access to past notes. Over time, it becomes an indispensable teammate.
- Learns user work habits
- Syncs across Mac, iPhone, and web
- Summarizes Slack, email, and meetings
- Remembers forgotten tasks and follow-ups
- Accesses past notes and thoughts
- Improves with continued use
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vellum is your personal AI for work and life. It learns how you think, remembers what matters, and helps with the things you care about. With vellum, you're always in control: • Choose where your data lives: vellum Cloud or your own self-hosted vellum • Use any model, bring your own API key, or use vellum-optimized models • Decide what your assistant can access and remember Talk, text, or show vellum what you see with your camera, then use it to: • Catch up on email, Slack, and meetings • Remember follow-ups, tasks, and important details • Plan your day, trips, meals, or workouts • Find old notes, files, and saved links • Think through work and personal decisions • Get help with whatever is in front of you One assistant across iPhone, Mac, and web. Always caught up on what matters to you.
Context Panel
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Context Panel companion lets you view AI usage limits synced from your Mac on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. It shows remaining capacity, provider/account status, reset timing, and stale or unavailable sync states from the same local-first Context Panel setup on your Mac. Use the companion app and widgets as glanceable surfaces while setup, diagnostics, provider credentials, and detailed history stay on the Mac app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Context Panel at 6 against Vellum Assistant's 2. 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.
Vellum Assistant ships an update every 4 days, Context Panel every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Vellum Assistant | Context Panel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (18 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vocify Inc. | Shiny Computers |
In-app purchases
Vellum Assistant
No in-app purchases
Context Panel
No in-app purchases









