Comparison

BECoach.ai vs Certly

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

Head to head
About

BECoach.ai

Features
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Edge model, born to be cutting edge. BECoach.ai is the world's first iOS app to run Qwen3.5 — Alibaba's most advanced AI — entirely on your iPhone. No cloud. No server. No API. No data leaving your device. Just pure, private, on-device intelligence. The Transformation Economy We are entering an era where personal transformation is the most valuable commodity. But here's what most people miss: the fastest way to learn is to teach. Coaching isn't just for the person being coached — it transforms the coach. Every great teacher will tell you: you don't truly understand something until you can explain it to someone else. Coaching is learning by teaching, in real time, with real stakes. It compounds. The coach grows. The student grows. The community grows. But coaching is expensive. A great coach's time is finite. Most people who need one will never have one. This is where AI changes everything — not by replacing coaches, but by multiplying them. BECoach.ai isn't designed to coach without humans. It's designed to make human coaches more effective, more prepared, and more present. It handles the thinking partner role between sessions — so when a coach shows up, they show up for what only humans can do: presence, empathy, accountability, relationship. AI supports the coach. The coach transforms the person. That's the model. Born from a real idea Last summer, a coach sat by the pool watching his kids swim, chatting with AI about what the future of coaching could look like. He registered becoach.ai on instinct. It sat dormant for nearly a year. Then on March 2, 2026, Alibaba released Qwen3.5. The next day, his OpenClaw assistant Dao spotted that mlx-swift had been updated overnight with Qwen3.5 support — before the community had caught up. Dao quantized the model to 4-bit MLX format, uploaded it to HuggingFace, and wired it into a SwiftUI app running natively on iPhone. All in under 24 hours. That's not a story about technology. That's a story about what happens when the right tools meet the right vision. The creator of BECoach.ai is Tony Zhang — a father, author, and practitioner of the Transformation Economy (inspired by Joe Pine's new book in 2026). Tony's own chapter "Learn Differently" appears in Strategic Conversations (2025), the Amazon bestseller curated by Chris Voss, author of Never Split the Difference — selected from professionals worldwide. https://amzn.to/4s7BhLx What makes BECoach.ai different Every AI assistant you've used lives in the cloud. Your conversations travel to servers, get processed, get stored. Someone, somewhere, has access to what you said. BECoach.ai runs on your iPhone. The model lives on your device. Your conversations never leave. Not because we say so — because they physically can't. This isn't a privacy feature. It's the architecture. Powered by Apple MLX — Built for Apple Silicon Most AI apps run on servers. BECoach.ai runs on the chip in your pocket. Apple MLX is Apple's own machine learning framework — purpose-built for Apple Silicon. The same architecture that makes M-series Macs the fastest computers in the world powers every response in BECoach.ai. On iPhone 15 Pro and newer, the Neural Engine runs Qwen3.5 at full speed — no compromise, no throttling, no waiting on a server. • Fully offline after first launch • No account required • No subscription • No data collection • Works on a plane, in a basement, anywhere For coaches. For leaders. For anyone building something. BECoach.ai isn't just an AI chatbot. It's a thinking partner for people who are building — teams, businesses, communities, themselves. Ask it hard questions. Use it to pressure-test ideas. Let it push back. Export your conversations and turn insights into action. The best coaches don't give answers. They ask better questions. So does BECoach.ai. Your data. Your device. Your coach.

About

Certly

Prepare for AI Architect certification exams with AI-powered study tools. Practice with realistic simulations, detailed explanations, and smart review features. Master key domains and build confidence before test day.

Highlights
  • AI-powered prompt writing drills
  • Study by specific AI domains
  • Realistic exam simulations
  • Detailed answer explanations
  • Spaced repetition review
  • Daily challenges and streaks
  • Quick study mode
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Practice for all four AI certification exams in one app: Associate, Developer, Architect and Architect Professional. 920 questions, each filed under the domain it tests at the weight the official exam guide publishes. ▸ Pick Your Exam Choose the certification you're sitting and the app follows it: its domains, its weights, its exam length. Switch any time. Each exam keeps its own progress, streak and history. ▸ Practice Exams at Real Length 60 items for the Foundations exams, 63 for Architect Professional, scored 100 to 1000 against the 720 passing line. Multiple-choice and multiple-response items, graded on an exact match with no partial credit, the way the real exam scores them. Change an answer, go back, flag questions to revisit, or end early and score what you have. ▸ Projected Score, Weighted by Domain Your score appears after 20 answers, counts only the exam you're preparing for, and weighs each domain the way the real score report does. ▸ Missed Questions Come Back Get one wrong and it returns the next day. Get it right and it comes back after 3, then 7, then 14 days, until it sticks. ▸ Explanations That Teach Every question explains why the right answer is right and why each wrong one is wrong, naming each option by what it says instead of by a letter. ▸ Prompt Lab Prompt-writing drills graded instantly and offline. Spot the flaw in a weak prompt, build a strong one block by block, or write your own against a precision rubric. ▸ Ten Minutes or One Domain Run ten mixed questions on the way to work, or drill a single domain. ▸ Daily Challenge, Streaks and Achievements A new question every day, accuracy tracked per domain, and milestones as you go. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose your certification 2. Study by domain, take a quick session, or run a prompt drill 3. Read the explanation on every answer 4. Take a full practice exam when your projected score clears 720 Works offline. Sign in only if you want your answers, practice exams and bookmarks synced across devices. Everything works without an account. Free to use. An optional one-time purchase removes ads. No subscription. Independent study tool. Not affiliated with the exam provider.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BECoach.ai at none against Certly's 1. BECoach.ai also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price and device support 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. Certly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BECoach.ai asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BECoach.ai ships an update monthly, Certly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BECoach.ai versus Certly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBECoach.aiCertly
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTao ZhangGabriel Pevide

In-app purchases

None

BECoach.ai

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Certly

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is BECoach.ai free?
BECoach.ai is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Certly free?
Certly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BECoach.ai or Certly have ads?
Certly shows ads; BECoach.ai does not.
Which is updated more often, BECoach.ai or Certly?
BECoach.ai ships an update monthly, and Certly every 2 months. Most recently, BECoach.ai was updated on October 25, 2026 and Certly on October 31, 2026.

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