Comparison

Vellum Assistant vs Rakazo

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Rakazo

Create and manage specialized AI teammates for real work. Assign roles, provide instructions, and monitor progress in focused threads. Access a bot's remote computer for direct control and receive completion notifications.

Highlights
  • Create specialized AI bots
  • Assign clear roles and instructions
  • Persistent AI teammates
  • Sandboxed computer and browser access
  • Contextual memory
  • Task completion notifications
  • Remote computer control
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Rakazo is a home for persistent AI teammates that can do real work. Create specialized bots, give each one a clear role, and keep every conversation in one focused thread. Your bots can use a sandboxed computer and browser, remember context, run routines, and notify you when work is complete. With the Rakazo app you can: • See all of your bots and recent activity in one place. • Create bots with their own role and instructions. • Send messages and follow work as it happens. • Open a bot's remote computer and take control when needed. • Receive notifications when a task finishes. • Connect to an Inbox Zero-hosted or self-hosted Rakazo server. Rakazo is built for people who want capable AI agents without giving up control of their infrastructure, model provider, or data. An account on a compatible Rakazo server is required.

Screenshots

Vellum Assistant4 screens
Rakazo3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Rakazo at 4.8 against Vellum Assistant's 4.0. Rakazo also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Vellum Assistant's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 5). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rakazo holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Vellum Assistant's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rakazo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vellum Assistant ships an update every 4 days, Rakazo every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Vellum Assistant versus Rakazo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVellum AssistantRakazo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (18 ratings)4.8 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB61 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperVocify Inc.Inbox Zero Inc.

Customer experience

Vellum Assistant

All ratings18 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral5.6%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative18.2%

Rakazo

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Vellum Assistant

No in-app purchases

None

Rakazo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vellum Assistant free?
Vellum Assistant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rakazo free?
Rakazo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Vellum Assistant or Rakazo?
Rakazo is rated higher. Vellum Assistant averages 4.0 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Rakazo averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Vellum Assistant or Rakazo have ads?
Neither Vellum Assistant nor Rakazo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vellum Assistant or Rakazo?
Vellum Assistant ships an update every 4 days, and Rakazo every 3 days. Most recently, Vellum Assistant was updated on October 28, 2026 and Rakazo on October 31, 2026.

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