Manex vs Radien
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Manex
Capture anything with your camera and use on-device AI to make it searchable. Find notes, receipts, or documents later by asking in plain English. Your memories are processed privately on your device and never leave your iPhone.
- On-device OCR text extraction
- Vision-Language Model scene understanding
- Natural language search
- Voice search
- Offline functionality
- Privacy-first design
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Turn your voice into a private memory you can ask questions about. Manex is an AI voice notes and journal app for iPhone and iPad. Speak freely. Manex transcribes on-device, understands what you meant, and connects each entry to ideas you recorded before. When you need something later, ask in natural language. Manex searches by meaning - not only exact words - and answers from your own saved moments. CAPTURE THOUGHTS IN SECONDS Start recording and speak naturally. Manex turns your voice into readable text as you talk, without making you stop and organize every thought. REMEMBER BY MEANING You do not need to remember the exact words you used. Ask about an idea, decision, concern, or reflection and Manex retrieves the moments that matter. ANSWERS GROUNDED IN YOUR WORDS Manex answers from your saved entries and shows the moments behind its response. Your personal memory stays connected to its original context. A MEMORY THAT CONNECTS Related thoughts are linked automatically over time. Explore recurring ideas and patterns through a living memory map instead of a flat list of recordings. PRIVATE AND ON-DEVICE Your voice, transcripts, memory graph, and AI recall stay on your device. No account, no uploaded journal, and no advertising profile built from your thoughts. NO RECURRING SUBSCRIPTION Manex is free to download and includes 25 moments. If it becomes part of your routine, one purchase unlocks unlimited lifetime memory. USE MANEX FOR • Voice journaling and daily reflection • Capturing ideas while walking or commuting • Remembering decisions and conversations • Study notes and spoken explanations • Creative ideas and personal projects • Tracking recurring thoughts over time • Finding details you no longer remember exactly Say it once. Manex helps you remember what you meant.
Radien
Diagnose network issues with tools like ping, traceroute, and DNS lookup. Inspect TLS certificates, scan ports, and calculate subnets. This app prioritizes privacy with no ads or trackers.
- Ping with live chart and verdict
- Multi-host ping comparison
- Traceroute with hop analysis
- DNS lookup and reverse DNS
- TCP port scanner
- TLS certificate inspector
- Subnet calculator
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Is it my Wi-Fi, or is the site down? Where does the connection break? Why does Safari distrust this certificate? Is my public IP really mine, or am I behind my carrier's NAT? Did my computer really wake up? Radien answers these questions on your iPhone or iPad, directly on the device, and honest about what it can and can't see. No ads, no trackers, no analytics, no accounts. Nothing you type is sent to a server we operate. WHAT'S INSIDE • Radien Checkup: one run checks your Wi-Fi, router, internet, DNS and websites, and tells you what is wrong. • Wake on LAN: wake a computer, NAS or server on your network, then watch it wake. Radien sends the Magic Packet, watches for an answer, and says whether it woke and what to check if it did not. Siri, Shortcuts and widgets can wake it too. • Ping: latency, jitter and packet loss to any host, with a live chart and a plain-language verdict. Your router is one tap away. • Multi Ping: compare up to four hosts side by side, at once. Saved groups load a whole comparison in one tap. • Traceroute: every hop between you and a destination, with reverse-DNS names, the network that holds each address, and a read of where delay or loss truly begins. • DNS Lookup & Reverse DNS: query A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS and more against the system resolver or Google, Cloudflare and Quad9. Enter an IP for a reverse PTR lookup and the network that holds it. • Port Scanner: which TCP ports are open, closed or filtered (usually a firewall), never a fake vulnerability claim. • TLS Inspector: read a site's TLS/SSL certificate chain, protocol versions and cipher support, straight from your device. No third-party grading service, no invented grades. • Subnet Calculator: IPv4 and IPv6 math: CIDR, network, broadcast, host ranges and equal splits, with a live bit view and RFC-correct /31 and /32. • IP Converter: turn any IP notation into every other form, and see how an IPv4 address rides inside IPv6. • MAC Converter: every MAC address notation, EUI-64, link-local, and a fully offline vendor lookup. Randomized phone MACs are flagged as randomized, never given a fake vendor. • Network Details: your Wi-Fi name and access point vendor, local and public IP address with its network owner, router address, DNS servers, your real cellular radio (5G, or 5G riding a 4G core) and NAT64 detection, one tap from the always-on status header. ACCESSIBILITY Every screen is tested by hand with VoiceOver. Result rows read as one sentence, every long-press action is also a rotor action, and the ping chart supports Apple's Audio Graphs, so you can hear your connection as rising and falling tones. Larger Text, Reduce Motion and Voice Control are supported. One honest limit: I have no Braille display, so Braille output is untested. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Radien uses Apple frameworks only: no third-party SDKs, no analytics, no data collection. The MAC vendor and network owner tables are bundled on the device, and certificates are read locally, never sent to a checking service. Your network is your business. RADIEN PRO Radien is free to use, with a one-time Radien Pro unlock for the power features: Radien Checkup, Multi Ping, more Wake on LAN devices with groups, widgets and the Control Center control, custom DNS resolvers and extra record types, advanced port presets, full TLS depth, MAC vendor lookup, network names, alternate app icons, tuning options and sharing. Buy once, keep forever. No subscription. Built by an independent developer. Feedback is welcome and read personally.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Radien at 18.0 against Manex's 26.0. On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Manex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Radien sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Manex | Radien |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Untropy, Inc. | IGOR ARSENKIN |
Customer experience
Manex
Radien
In-app purchases
Manex
- Lifetime Pro Access$29.99
Radien
- Radien Pro$9.99









