AI Desktop 98 vs Pressed Petals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AI Desktop 98
Experience a retro desktop interface powered by advanced AI. Interact with various AI models, manage conversations, and enjoy nostalgic features like a BIOS boot sequence and sound effects. It offers on-device processing for enhanced privacy.
- Interactive retro desktop interface
- Multiple AI backend options
- On-device and cloud AI support
- Conversation management and organization
- Retro web browser
- Customizable chat appearance
- Nostalgic sound effects and CRT overlay
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AI Desktop 98 wraps powerful AI assistants inside a fully interactive retro desktop, complete with a BIOS boot sequence, Start menu, taskbar, draggable windows, and authentic sound effects. Choose your AI: run Apple Intelligence on-device, load local MLX models, or connect to cloud providers like OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Groq, and more — all from the Control Panel. FEATURES - Full retro desktop — boot sequence, Start menu, taskbar, and windowed apps - Multiple AI backends: Apple Intelligence, local MLX models, or cloud APIs - 11 cloud providers supported, including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, and LM Studio - Save, rename, search, and organize conversations in My Documents - Recycle Bin with restore for deleted chats - Built-in retro web browser - Customizable chat fonts and text sizes - Export and share conversations as plain text or Markdown - Find dialog to search across all saved chats - Keyboard shortcuts for power users - CRT monitor overlay for maximum nostalgia - Authentic retro sound effects - Minesweeper PRIVACY On-device models run 100% locally — no internet required, no data collected, no accounts. Cloud API mode connects directly to your chosen provider using your own API key; nothing passes through our servers.
Pressed Petals
Capture and preserve the beauty of flowers you discover on your walks. This app transforms your photos into delicate pressed specimens, creating a digital botanical journal of your finds. Enjoy every season's blooms, beautifully cataloged.
- Photograph flowers to press
- Create a digital pressed flower collection
- Browse collection like a botanical journal
- Catalog flowers by walk and season
- Unlock additional flower slots
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Pressed Petals turns the flowers you find on walks into a gorgeous pressed flower collection. Take a photo of any flower and watch it transform into a delicate pressed specimen. Flip through your collection like a vintage botanical journal. Every walk, every season, beautifully kept. Everyone can press a flower for free, and unlock more with a one-time fee.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AI Desktop 98 at 4.3 against Pressed Petals's 3.2. AI Desktop 98 also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 43%) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Pressed Petals's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Pressed Petals sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. AI Desktop 98 asks for nothing beyond the download.
AI Desktop 98 holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of AI Desktop 98's written reviews are positive against 43% of Pressed Petals's.
AI Desktop 98 ships an update every 9 days, Pressed Petals every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AI Desktop 98 | Pressed Petals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (24 ratings) — better | 3.2 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.7 GB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pritesh Desai | Cynthia Chen |
Customer experience
AI Desktop 98
Pressed Petals
In-app purchases
AI Desktop 98
No in-app purchases
Pressed Petals
- Top up flowers$3.99
- Full Access$4.99
