Comparison

Wajed vs AriCore

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

Head to head
About

Wajed

This app helps you keep track of important details and memories for everyone in your life. Create profiles, save individual memories, and set reminders to stay connected and prepared for events. It functions as a personal CRM for your relationships.

Highlights
  • Personalized profiles for individuals
  • Separate memory entries per person
  • Anniversary and event reminders
  • Searchable memory database
  • Relationship-focused CRM
  • Prepare for events with context
Features
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Wajed tells you who to reach out to today, reminds you what they told you, and helps you follow up at the right time. A friend has a job interview on Monday. You write it down. A week later, Wajed reminds you to ask how it went. WRITE DOWN WHAT MATTERS • Keep a memory after a call, a coffee or a visit: a few words, a photo, a video or a voice note. • One memory can be about several people and appears on each of their profiles. • Voice notes are written out on your iPhone, so you can search what was said. KNOW WHO TO REACH TODAY • Follow-ups: turn anything someone told you into a question to ask later. • Reconnect: choose how often you want to talk to someone, and see when it has been too long. • Occasions: anniversaries and the dates that matter to them. • Events: dinners and gatherings, created in Wajed or read from your iPhone calendar. WALK IN PREPARED • Before a call or a dinner, see what to ask each person and the last time you were together. • Keep a short list of what to bring. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • Widgets show the next person to reach and the one thing to say. • A notification arrives when it is time to ask. PRIVATE • No account and no sign-up. • Your people and memories are stored on your iPhone. • Lock Wajed with Face ID. • Back up to your own iCloud, encrypted on your iPhone. Wajed is a relationship journal, a friend reminder and people notes in one place. Think of it as a personal CRM for family and friends, not for business. WAJED PRO Wajed is free for up to 10 people, with unlimited written memories. Wajed Pro adds unlimited people, photos and videos in memories, and voice note recording. Privacy Policy: https://wajed.online/privacy Terms of Use: https://wajed.online/terms Support: https://wajed.online/support

About

AriCore

Run large language models locally on your device for private, offline AI interactions. Connect your own API keys for advanced models or pair with a desktop application for enhanced functionality. Features include offline chat, custom skill creation, and a self-paced learning module.

Highlights
  • Local LLM execution
  • Offline chat capabilities
  • Desktop pairing with encryption
  • Custom skill creation
  • Self-paced learning module
  • On-device voice mode
Features
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AriCore runs large language models on your phone. You bring the model file, it runs locally. Nothing leaves the device. If you also use aricode/aridesk on your desktop, you can pair the two and chat from your phone while the desktop does the heavy lifting. The pairing is end-to-end encrypted — the relay server only ever sees ciphertext, and neither end stores messages on anyone else's computer. What you can do with it: Load a GGUF file and chat offline. Llama, Qwen, Mistral, Gemma, whatever you can fit in memory. Quantized 3B–7B models work well on recent iPhones. Bigger models work too if the device has the RAM for it. Connect your own API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google if you want frontier models without giving your data to a third-party chat app. Keys stay in the iOS Keychain. Pair with aricode desktop to use your existing sessions, approve tool calls, and keep going from the couch. Handy if you run long jobs on a workstation and want to glance at them from the kitchen. Build a self-paced course on anything. The Study tab spins a curriculum from a topic and a goal — lesson plus quiz, with optional cloze, written-answer, and code exercises per session, plus a midpoint and final exam. Tutor chats stay walled off from your personal context — no tool access, no memory writes, no calendar lookups. Finish a course and you get a certificate and a one-tap PDF export of the entire workbook, answers and grades included. Let the model reflect overnight. Dreams (optional) read recent conversations while the device is charging and surface proposals — memories worth keeping, custom skills you'd actually use, persona suggestions, watchers for things you care about. Every proposal is presented for review; nothing applies without your tap. Skills are local tools the model can call — plain markdown plus a small JSON config. Build them by hand or have the model draft one from a description. The skill creator runs in an isolated context so your personal data never leaks into the generated code. Voice mode runs entirely on-device. On-device speech recognition for input, Kokoro TTS for output, no cloud round-trip and no microphone audio ever leaving the phone. Why it exists: Most mobile AI apps are thin clients for somebody's backend. Your prompts sit on their servers, get mined for training, get tied to an account. This one doesn't do any of that. No account. No analytics. No crash reporting that phones home. The code path for "talk to a model" goes from your screen straight to the model — either on this device or over an encrypted tunnel to your own desktop. A few things worth knowing: You provide the models. There's no in-app store or downloader. Drop a .gguf into the Files app under AriCore and it shows up in the model picker. Running a 7B model takes 3–5 seconds to first token on an iPhone 15 Pro. Smaller models are faster. API keys live in the Keychain. The app never sees them after you paste them in unless you re-open the settings. They're not synced anywhere. The desktop pairing requires aricode running on the same network or reachable over Tailscale. Setup is one QR code scan.

Screenshots

Wajed4 screens
AriCore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Wajed at 5.0 against AriCore's 2.0. Wajed also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). AriCore's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Wajed sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and AriCore sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wajed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wajed ships an update weekly, AriCore daily. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Wajed versus AriCore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWajedAriCore
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB144 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAbderrahmane EttarrassAlex Sheridan

Customer experience

Wajed

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

AriCore

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Wajed

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Yearly$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • Wajed Pro Lifetime$9.99
10 purchases

AriCore

One-time10
  • Slate Theme$1.99
  • Vellum Theme$1.99
  • Ink Theme$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Linotype Theme$1.99
  • Foxglove Theme$1.99
  • Verdigris Theme$1.99
  • Manuscript Theme$2.99
  • Crow Theme$2.99
  • Dream Theme$2.99
  • Solar Hours$4.99

Questions

Is Wajed free?
Wajed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AriCore free?
AriCore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wajed or AriCore?
Wajed is rated higher. Wajed averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while AriCore averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Wajed or AriCore have ads?
Neither Wajed nor AriCore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wajed or AriCore?
Wajed ships an update weekly, and AriCore daily. Most recently, Wajed was updated on October 31, 2026 and AriCore on October 31, 2026.

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