Parallax vs Token
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Parallax
This AI companion offers private, on-device assistance or connects to various cloud AI providers. It allows side-by-side response comparison, live web context retrieval, and generates charts directly in conversations. Features include voice input, file analysis, image generation, and cross-device continuity.
- On-device and cloud AI integration
- Side-by-side response comparison
- Live web context retrieval
- In-chat chart generation
- Cross-device conversation continuity
- Voice input and spoken responses
- File and photo analysis
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Parallax AI is your private, flexible AI companion—available across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. PERSPECTIVES Ask once, hear more. Perspectives brings together your private on-device AI and configured cloud providers in one response. See each labeled viewpoint, spot the differences, and get a balanced synthesis to help you decide with confidence. YOUR AI, YOUR CHOICE Use On-Device AI for private help on supported devices, or connect your own API keys for OpenAI, Google Gemini, xAI/Grok, Groq, Mistral, Together, Perplexity, Anthropic, or Cursor. Switch providers instantly, save your favorites, and choose the right model for everyday help, research, coding, creative work, or deep reasoning. PICK UP ANYWHERE Start a conversation on one Apple device and continue on another. Parallax keeps your recent conversations and cloud setup in sync through iCloud, so your work stays within reach—from iPhone to Apple Vision Pro. LIVE, CAPABLE, AND READY Get live web context for current questions, weather details, native charts, voice input and spoken replies, file and photo analysis, image generation, URL fetching, long-term memory, templates, and agent tools. PRIVACY FIRST On-Device AI stays on your device. Cloud requests go directly to the providers you choose using your own API keys. Incognito Mode keeps conversations out of history and memory. Free to use. No ads. No required account.
Token
This app provides a private AI studio on your iPhone, allowing you to download and run various open AI models locally. Engage in conversations, generate images, and utilize tools like web search and document analysis, all while keeping your data on your device.
- Run open AI models locally
- On-device chat, reasoning, and coding
- Image generation with local models
- Voice conversations with on-device speech
- Import custom MLX or GGUF models
- Local API server for compatible tools
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Token AI is a private AI studio for your iPhone. Download open models, run them on the device, and keep every conversation on your iPhone. FRONTIER MODELS ON YOUR IPHONE • Experimental 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts models, Edge0 35B and MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B, stream their experts from storage. They need a large download, and MiniCPM-V 35B needs an iPhone with 12 GB of memory. • Ternary Bonsai 2 9B and Bonsai 27B: ternary and 1-bit models that fit more capability into iPhone memory, with text and image understanding. • Qwen3.5, Qwen3, Llama 3, Gemma, Phi-3.5, LFM2.5, Nemotron and Granite, in MLX, GGUF and Apple Core AI formats. • Import your own compatible MLX or GGUF models from Files. CHAT, REASON AND CODE • Reasoning models show their thinking, and long chats are compacted to stay within the model's context window. • Attach photos and files in any chat. Vision models read images directly; other models get a description from an on-device visual model. • Choose a model for each conversation, pin chats, and search every message. • Optional web search, a document knowledge base and GitHub repository tools. LENS, VOICE AND IMAGES • Lens: use the camera or a photo and ask about it with SmolVLM 2, Gemma 3 and other vision models. • Voice conversations with on-device speech recognition (Whisper) and natural voices (Kokoro, Kitten TTS). • Image Studio: create pictures with Stable Diffusion, SDXL Turbo and other local image models, with optional PIN-protected parental controls. FOR BUILDERS • An authenticated local API server for OpenAI-, Anthropic- and Ollama-compatible tools on your trusted network. • Optional API providers with your own keys. • An on-device classifier workbench, Shortcuts and Siri actions, a share extension, and Live Activities for downloads. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, analytics or ads. Conversations are stored only on your iPhone. Model downloads, web search, API providers and GitHub use the network only when you turn them on. Requires iOS 27 or later. Works on iPhone Duo. Available models depend on your iPhone's memory, and model files are downloaded separately and can need several gigabytes of storage. AI results can be inaccurate; review them before relying on them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Parallax at 5.0 against Token's 4.0. Parallax also leads on device support (6 vs 1). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Parallax holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parallax | Token |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 189 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Chris Nicolaidis | MESUT CAN YAGCI |
Customer experience
Parallax
Token
In-app purchases
Parallax
No in-app purchases
Token
No in-app purchases









