Comparison

SageGate vs Doro

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

Doro

This app helps you stay focused by using the Pomodoro technique. It provides adjustable timers for work and break periods, running in the background with notifications to keep you on track. Designed for simplicity, it requires no sign-up or tracking.

Highlights
  • Adjustable focus and break lengths
  • Clean timer interface
  • Background operation
  • End-of-session notifications
  • No sign-up or tracking
Features
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Doro is a focus timer that does one thing. You start it, you work, and it tells you when to stop. The method behind it is simple. Work in a focused block, take a short break, repeat, then take a longer break after a few rounds. That rhythm has kept people writing, studying, coding, and drawing for decades. Doro just keeps time for it. Everything is where you expect it. One tap starts a session, one tap pauses. Set your focus and break lengths once and forget about them. The timer keeps running when you leave the app and a notification brings you back when the block ends, so you can put your phone face down and actually work. There is no sign-up, no streak to protect, and no dashboard of charts telling you how you felt about Tuesday. Nothing you do in the app leaves your device. What you get: Adjustable focus, short break, and long break lengths A clean timer screen with no clutter Notifications when a session or break ends Runs in the background so you can lock your phone No account, no ads, no tracking Doro is for students working through a reading list, developers holding a thread of logic, writers facing a blank page, and anyone who has ever opened a productivity app and closed it because setting it up felt like more work than the work. Start the timer. That's the whole app.

Screenshots

SageGate4 screens
Doro3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Doro at none against SageGate's 9. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Doro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SageGate against 5.0 for Doro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SageGate ships an update every 8 days, Doro every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
SageGate versus Doro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSageGateDoro
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperHT HoldingRiyan Mohammed

Customer experience

SageGate

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Doro

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Doro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SageGate free?
SageGate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Doro free?
Doro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SageGate or Doro?
SageGate and Doro are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do SageGate or Doro have ads?
Neither SageGate nor Doro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SageGate or Doro?
SageGate ships an update every 8 days, and Doro every 4 days. Most recently, SageGate was updated on October 4, 2026 and Doro on October 9, 2026.

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