Comparison

OffNote AI vs ownAI

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

Head to head
About

OffNote AI

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OffNote AI turns your notes into a private knowledge base you can actually talk to. Write a memo, and OffNote AI quietly extracts the facts. Later, ask a question in plain language โ€” who did I meet last Tuesday? what was that restaurant recommendation? โ€” and get a direct answer from your own notes. Everything runs on your device. No data is sent to any server. No account required. HOW IT WORKS OffNote AI downloads a small AI model to your phone during setup. After that one-time download, it works completely offline. Your notes never leave your device โ€” not even to generate answers. KEY FEATURES - Write and search notes with a clean, fast interface - AI automatically extracts key facts when you save - Chat with your notes: ask questions in natural language - Focus mode: ask about one specific note in depth - Conversation history across multiple chat sessions - Fully offline after the initial model download - No account, no subscription, no cloud storage - Choose from multiple on-device AI models in Settings WHY OFFNOTE AI? Most AI apps send your notes to a remote server to generate answers. OffNote AI runs the model locally, so your personal thoughts, plans, and records stay yours โ€” always.

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ownAI

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ownAI is a personal AI that belongs to you โ€” not to a platform. It remembers what you talk about and gets smarter over time. If it is missing a capability, it builds one itself. The more you use it, the more it becomes yours. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Conversations, memories, and settings are stored locally on your iPhone. When you use an external language model, only what is needed for a given request is transmitted โ€” nothing else. No ads, no tracking, no data mining. ownAI is open source. ONE CONTINUOUS CONVERSATION No chat sessions to manage: ownAI is one flowing dialogue. A layered memory keeps what matters โ€” recent context, summaries, and long-term memories you can browse and edit at any time. AN AI THAT EXTENDS ITSELF Ask for a new capability and ownAI builds it: small reusable helpers for everyday automation, or interactive mini-apps that run right inside the app, safely sandboxed. YOUR CHOICE OF MODEL - Entirely on your device: run an open-source model locally โ€” private and able to work offline. ownAI checks your iPhone and recommends a model that fits it. - Via ownAI Credits: powerful models from leading providers with a single balance โ€” you choose the region that processes your requests (EU, Switzerland, US). - Via your own API key: connect Anthropic, OpenAI, or your own Ollama server directly. ALWAYS WORKING FOR YOU Schedule recurring tasks and get a notification when they finish. IN YOUR LANGUAGE ownAI speaks English and German.

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Verdict

The call

OffNote AI and ownAI are too close to call on the numbers: across 3 compared parameters โ€” price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
OffNote AI versus ownAI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOffNote AIownAI
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 3 weeks
Adsโ€”No
In-app purchasesNoNo
Devicesโ€”iPhone โ€” better
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size58 MB37 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperWonbin KimJan Pawellek

In-app purchases

None

OffNote AI

No in-app purchases

None

ownAI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OffNote AI free?
OffNote AI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ownAI free?
ownAI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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