Comparison

SageGate vs Mr Broccoli

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

Head to head
About

SageGate

Consolidate access to over 15 AI providers in a single application. Connect your own API keys and pay only for the conversations you have, significantly reducing costs. Your data remains private, stored locally or on your iCloud, with API keys secured by Face ID.

Highlights
  • Connect to 15+ AI providers
  • Pay-per-conversation pricing
  • Local data storage and privacy
  • API key protection with Face ID
  • Spending dashboards
  • Reusable prompt templates (Skills)
  • Document analysis
Features
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Stop paying $20/month for each AI subscription. SageGate connects you directly to 20+ AI providers through one beautiful app — and you only pay for what you actually use. HOW IT WORKS Connect your own API keys and pay per conversation instead of $20/month per service. Many users spend under $5/month for heavier usage than any single subscription offers. SageGate shows you exactly what each message costs — no surprises, no waste. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS The free app has no accounts, no sign-ups, and no servers of ours. Your conversations live only on your device or your personal iCloud. Your API keys are stored in the iOS Keychain, and you can lock the whole app behind Face ID. Chats run over Apple's encrypted networking (TLS) straight to the provider you chose — SageGate is never in the connection, so we can't read or decode them. We never see your messages. Period. 20+ AI PROVIDERS, 40+ MODELS IN ONE PLACE Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, DouBao, ERNIE, HunYuan, MiniMax, Yi, Spark and more — plus Claude and Amazon Nova models through Amazon Bedrock on your own AWS. Ask ChatGPT for writing, switch to Claude for code, then check with Gemini — all in one thread. Three of the providers are aggregators (OpenRouter, Together AI, SiliconFlow) you can point at your own models, and any provider can use a custom API endpoint of your own. ONE KNOWLEDGE BASE ACROSS EVERY MODEL (SAGEGATE CLOUD — OPTIONAL) Your documents shouldn't be trapped inside one AI. SageGate Cloud gives you your own private vector database that every model can search — pulling back only what's relevant. Switch models and they all reach the same knowledge; nothing is siloed. Upload from your iPhone, or from any browser at portal.sagegate.ai. Upgrade only if you want the shared cloud brain. Still no accounts: - T4 Managed Cloud ($19.99/mo) — we host your encrypted vault; zero setup. - T3 Private Cloud ($5.99/mo) — your documents live in your own AWS. We handle only the transport — converting to Markdown, chunking, embedding, ingesting and retrieval all run transiently in our pipeline — and we keep nothing on our side. - T2 Self-Host ($1.99/mo) — your AWS only, extracted on your device; we never touch a byte. The app itself stays completely free — and giving back is built in: 10% of every App Store purchase goes to 501(c)(3) animal-welfare nonprofits (records published at sagegate.ai). SEE WHAT YOU SPEND Every message shows exactly how many tokens were used and what it cost. Daily, weekly, and monthly dashboards break down spending by provider. Think of it as a budgeting app for your AI usage. AUTOMATE YOUR BUSYWORK Set up Skills — reusable prompt templates for tasks you do every day, like summarizing emails or translating documents. Schedule tasks to run automatically when you open the app. BRING YOUR OWN FILES Drop PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets, or presentations into the app. SageGate reads them on-device and lets any AI answer questions about them. Stay fully local for free, or add SageGate Cloud to index them for search. Drag files into iCloud Drive from your Mac and they appear instantly. REMEMBER WHAT MATTERS Tap "Remember" on any helpful AI response. That knowledge carries across every future conversation with every provider — your personal AI memory that grows with you. RUN AI ON YOUR OWN COMPUTER Connect to local models on your Mac — for work that should never touch the internet — through LM Studio, oMLX, Llama.cpp, and similar tools. WORKS IN YOUR LANGUAGE Full support for 13 languages: English, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, and Indonesian. ADDITIONAL FEATURES - Watch AI models "think" in real-time with visible reasoning streams - Export any AI response as a formatted PDF with one tap - Organize chats with folders, pins, search, and smart sorting - Full VoiceOver accessibility support, light & dark mode

About

Mr Broccoli

Features
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Mr Broccoli is a voice-first AI app for people who already have their own provider accounts. Add your keys, choose exactly which model answers, and listen to the reply. Nothing routes through a server of ours, because there isn't one. BEFORE YOU BUY Mr Broccoli is built around your own API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, OpenRouter or Alibaba Qwen. Your purchase gives you the app. It does not include AI usage — your provider bills you directly for what you use. TALK, DON'T TYPE • Speak, type or attach an image • Answers are read aloud, starting as soon as the first paragraph is ready • Skip by paragraph, pause, resume or restart playback • Drive Session for hands-free turns: it waits until you finish, counts down, sends, speaks the answer and listens again • Speech recognition using the system, an on-device model or your provider CHOOSE WHO ANSWERS • Save up to four routes — provider, exact model and reasoning effort • Switch between them mid-conversation without losing context • The home screen says who answers next and at what effort • Every answer records the route that actually produced it, including any fallback TUNE EACH CONVERSATION • Length: brief, normal or thorough • Tone: professional, casual, nerdy, concise, Socratic or ELI5 • Your own model and speech-delivery instructions • A specific voice per conversation Set defaults globally, override them per conversation. YOUR CONVERSATIONS • Kept in a local database on your device • Search, pin, archive, rename, share or delete • Fold and expand entries in one continuous transcript • Branch from any message to try another direction without losing the original • Lock individual conversations behind a password or biometrics MORE WHEN YOU WANT IT • Web search grounding, with sources attached to the answer • Council: several models answer, review each other, then one synthesises • Image prompts to compatible models • Optional recall from your past conversations, entirely on the device PRIVACY • No Mr Broccoli account and no Mr Broccoli server • Requests go straight from your device to the provider you chose • API keys stay in the operating system's secure storage — never in backups, logs or exports • A hosted provider still receives the request you send it YOURS TO KEEP • Full backups as readable JSON or passphrase-encrypted AES-256-GCM • Markdown archives to read anywhere or hand to another AI • Importing never overwrites what is already there 19 languages, including Arabic and Urdu right-to-left. Interface, dictation and answer language are set independently. Screen reader, large text, contrast and reduced-motion support throughout. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No cloud account, no cross-device sync, no hosted inference, no included credits, no silent switching of your chosen model or voice, and no autonomous actions on your behalf. AI output is not medical, legal or financial advice. No subscription. Because there is no account system, a purchase on one store does not unlock the app on the other.

Screenshots

SageGate4 screens
Mr Broccoli4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mr Broccoli at none against SageGate's 9. SageGate's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support 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. SageGate sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Mr Broccoli asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SageGate ships an update every 8 days, Mr Broccoli every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
SageGate versus Mr Broccoli: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSageGateMr Broccoli
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB57 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperHT HoldingTobias Winkler

In-app purchases

9 purchases

SageGate

Subscriptions6
  • Self‑Host (Monthly)14 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Private Cloud (Monthly)14 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Self‑Host (Yearly)1 Year trial$19.991 Year
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  • Managed Cloud (Monthly)14 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Private Cloud (Yearly)1 Month trial$59.991 Year
  • Managed Cloud (Yearly)1 Month trial$199.991 Year
One-time3
  • 1,000 Pages$2.99
  • 5,000 Pages$12.99
  • 10,000 Pages$19.99
None

Mr Broccoli

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SageGate free?
SageGate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mr Broccoli free?
Mr Broccoli is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SageGate or Mr Broccoli have ads?
Neither SageGate nor Mr Broccoli shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SageGate or Mr Broccoli?
SageGate ships an update every 8 days, and Mr Broccoli every 3 weeks. Most recently, SageGate was updated on October 4, 2026 and Mr Broccoli on October 5, 2026.

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