Orijins vs Brae
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orijins
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GAIA is a personal AI assistant with persistent memory. Unlike chatbots that forget you between sessions, GAIA learns your routines, priorities, and context — and uses that memory to help you live and work better. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Chat naturally with GAIA in text or voice • Capture thoughts, notes, and ideas in your "exocortex" — a personal memory hub • Plan your day with a contextual home dashboard that adapts to your rhythm • Manage tasks, calendar, and email from one place • Get proactive nudges when something needs your attention • Connect WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and email for unified communication HOW IT'S DIFFERENT GAIA doesn't just answer questions — she remembers. The more you use her, the better she understands what matters to you, how you work, and how to help. • Persistent memory across every conversation • Voice mode for hands-free interaction • Multi-agent system: specialized helpers for tasks, calendar, email • Privacy-first: your data, your account, no ads GETTING STARTED Create a free account, complete a quick onboarding, and start chatting. GAIA will guide you through linking your tools and setting up your first memories. Available in English and French.
Brae
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Brae is a local-first AI assistant for daily work and personal notes. It gives you a calm place to chat, capture ideas, review meetings, and keep useful context on your device. Use Brae to: - Chat with an on-device assistant for everyday questions and drafts. - Talk in Live mode, with typed fallback when speech is unavailable. - Use See World to ask about what the camera sees, powered by an on-device vision model when available. - Capture Meeting Notes, edit the transcript, and save it to your Library. - Review saved notes, call records, imported files, and generated artifacts in Library. - Keep Today focused on local follow-ups from your own notes and calls. - Manage local models in Model Setup, including downloads you explicitly choose. - Control privacy-sensitive features from Settings. Brae is built around local-first behavior. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. Your chats, transcripts, notes, files, memory, and settings stay on your device by default. Brae does not operate a Bubustudio backend that stores your content. Network use is explicit and user-initiated: - Model downloads happen only when you choose to download a local model from Hugging Face. - Location, nearby-place, destination, and route lookups use Apple MapKit and Core Location only when you ask. - Optional iCloud sync is off by default and, when enabled, uses your private CloudKit database. - Optional web search is off by default. When enabled, Brae sends the search query to DuckDuckGo’s keyless Instant Answer API so results can be returned.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Brae at 2 against Orijins's —. Orijins's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price and in-app purchases 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.
| Parameter | Orijins | Brae |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Maxime Schmitt | Haosheng Li |
In-app purchases
Orijins
No in-app purchases
Brae
No in-app purchases









