Jin Mobile vs Ragondin Assistant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Jin Mobile
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Talk, and Jin Mobile writes. Jin Mobile turns your voice into clean text as you speak, in any of 100+ languages, on iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, and Apple Watch. WHY JIN MOBILE β’ Accuracy. 99%+, tracked for every speech model in Stats. β’ Live transcription. Your words appear as you say them. β’ 100+ languages, each on the speech model that suits it best. β’ Vocabulary. 4,000+ words built in, including 1,800+ professional and medical terms. β’ Private. Speech runs on your device, and one switch keeps everything local. β’ Every device. iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch sync in seconds. Open an iPhone Duo and two pages sit side by side. β’ Help is one tap away: a Guide, page tours, a Glossary, and Siri. DICTATION β’ The keyboard types into any app: Mail, Messages, Slack, Notes, Safari. β’ Edit as you speak. Say "scratch that" to drop a sentence. β’ Magic Formatting writes times, dates, money, phone numbers, and math the right way. β’ Tones: Verbatim, Formal, Casual, Texting, Excited, Email, and Document. Write Like Me sounds like you. β’ Swipe typing, AutoCorrect, and suggestions that learn your words. β’ Bolt. Copy text, say what to do with it, and paste the result. β’ Dictation History keeps every take, audio included. β’ Filler Words, Snippets, and Replacements. Say "Hey Jin" when your hands are full. β’ Hinglish, Tanglish, Banglish, and Singlish, written in English letters. THOUGHTS AND LIBRARY β’ Tap the rainbow button and speak. Your thought is saved and titled. β’ Capture from Apple Watch, upload audio, or use Free Flow Mode for long-form thinking. β’ Smart Suggest files each thought into Projects, Folders, and Sub Folders. β’ Ask your Library out loud. Explore asks questions that take a thought further. β’ Add photos, files, scans, places, reminders, Urgency, and People to any thought. β’ Karaoke playback from 0.5x to 2x. Every word lights up as you hear it. β’ Clippy keeps what you copy. β’ Pending, Archive, Journal, Merge, Find & Replace, and summaries by folder, tag, or date. MEETINGS β’ Record or upload a meeting, with speaker labels. You confirm everyone's consent before it records. β’ Only your own voice is learned. Others are told apart in each meeting and not kept. β’ Templates. Thirty summary layouts, or your own. Mark key moments live. β’ Plaud. Your recordings arrive on their own. β’ Auto recovery. An interrupted recording is saved and rebuilt from its audio. CALENDAR β’ Speak to your calendar. Start a thought with "calendar" or "reminder" and Act makes it. β’ Event Tasks. Speak tasks and sub-tasks onto any event, tick them off, move the rest. β’ Deadlines, To-Dos, and projects that run over several days with one checklist. β’ Your week hour by hour. On iPad held sideways, your day sits beside the month. β’ Availability shows when you're free, with another city's clock. TRANSLATE β’ Speak one language and read another. Lasso any text in any app to translate it. β’ Talk. Two people, two languages, one phone, read aloud as you go. β’ Apple translates English pairs on device. A Gemini key adds many more. STATS AND STREAKS β’ Stats and streaks pool across all your devices. β’ Speech Coach scores Pace, Fillers, Hesitation, Variation, and Clarity. β’ Earn a daily badge, answer Quiz of the Day, and fill a six-month Consistency grid. INTEGRATIONS β’ Notion, Apple Calendar, and Apple Reminders. β’ Webhooks to Make, Zapier, n8n, and hundreds more apps. EVERYTHING ELSE β’ Local: one switch, and nothing you capture leaves your phone. β’ Cloud features use your own key, only when you turn them on. β’ App Lock keeps your library, or any tab in it, behind Face ID. β’ Audio Retention from a day to forever. Discarded recordings wait in Recovered Audio. β’ Backed up to iCloud. Home Screen widgets, including a Calendar. β’ One-time purchase. No subscription. No account needed. Works offline. Open Jin Mobile and start talking.
Ragondin Assistant
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Ragondin Assistant is a private AI chat app that runs entirely on your iPhone. No cloud. No account. No servers. Just powerful AI running directly on your device. Chat with advanced open-source AI models completely offline. Ask questions, summarize text, draft messages, learn new topics, and analyze photos without sending your data anywhere. WHAT YOU CAN DO β’ Ask questions and get instant answers β’ Summarize articles, notes, and documents β’ Draft emails and messages β’ Learn new topics with AI assistance β’ Analyze photos privately on-device β’ Use AI completely offline after setup Your conversations stay on your iPhone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Ragondin Assistant has no chat servers, no accounts, and no cloud processing. Your prompts, conversations, and photos never leave your device. Everything runs locally on your iPhone, whether you are online or offline. INCLUDED MODELS β’ Gemma 4 E2B: fast edge-optimized AI model by Google β’ Qwen 3.5: multilingual open-source language model β’ On-device vision support for photo understanding (for Gemma 4) β’ Local conversation history stored on-device WORKS OFFLINE Once downloaded, the AI models run directly on your device. Use Ragondin Assistant on flights, while traveling, or without internet access. SIMPLE PRICING Try Ragondin Assistant free. Unlock unlimited access with a one-time purchase. No subscriptions. No recurring fees. Future updates included. REQUIREMENTS β’ iPhone running iOS 17 or later β’ Approximately 3 GB of free storage for AI model downloads OPEN-SOURCE MODELS Ragondin Assistant uses Gemma and Qwen open-source models. βGemmaβ is a trademark of Google LLC. βQwenβ is a trademark of Alibaba Cloud. Ragondin Assistant is independently developed and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google or Alibaba.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ragondin Assistant at Free against Jin Mobile's $24.99. Jin Mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On update cadence, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Ragondin Assistant is free to download; Jin Mobile costs $24.99 up front. Ragondin Assistant sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Jin Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
Jin Mobile ships an update fortnightly, Ragondin Assistant monthly. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Jin Mobile | Ragondin Assistant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $24.99 | Free β better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly β better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No β better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch β better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 16.4 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Murali Balaraman | Ragondin Dev Inc |
In-app purchases
Jin Mobile
No in-app purchases
Ragondin Assistant
- Ragondin Assistant Premium Lifetime$19.99
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