Comparison

Friday vs Orb

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

Head to head
About

Friday

This AI companion learns from your digital life to build a private model of your habits and decisions. It works in the background to spot patterns, flag potential mistakes, protect your time, and handle routine tasks. It functions as a second brain that becomes more useful as it fine-tunes on your personal data.

Highlights
  • Learns from digital life data
  • Builds private model of habits
  • Works in background
  • Spots patterns and flags mistakes
  • Handles routine tasks
  • Personal knowledge graph
  • Encrypted data with granular permissions
Features
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Friday is a personal AI that learns from your digital life — email, calendar, documents, health data, habits — and builds a private model of how you actually live and decide. Instead of waiting for prompts like a chatbot, Friday works in the background: spotting patterns across your history, flagging decisions that look like past mistakes, protecting your time, and handling routine tasks on your behalf. It's built on a personal knowledge graph that fine-tunes on your own data, so it gets more useful the longer you use it. Data encrypted, with granular permissions over what it sees and what it's allowed to do. Not an assistant. A second brain that runs alongside yours.

About

Orb

This proactive AI assistant anticipates your needs, offering timely reminders and updates without being asked. It allows you to control your computer remotely via your phone, handling tasks like file organization and providing voice-first, human-like interactions. Your data remains private as it runs on your own hardware.

Highlights
  • Proactive notifications
  • Remote computer control
  • Voice-first interaction
  • Open-source server
  • Customizable AI engine
  • Private data handling
Features
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7:02 AM. You haven't said a word yet. "Morning. Rain clears by nine. Your ten o'clock moved to ten thirty — and that form you've been dodging is due today, so I put it at the top of your list." Every assistant until now has waited to be asked. Orb doesn't wait. IT KNOWS WHAT'S UP Orb keeps a running sense of your day and reaches out when something actually matters: "You've got four commits sitting unpushed since Tuesday. Worth protecting before the weekend." "NVDA's up four percent since you asked me to watch it." "You've been at this for twenty hours. I moved tomorrow's first ping to ten so you can sleep in." And when nothing matters? Silence. The bar for interrupting you is high. YOUR COMPUTER, IN YOUR POCKET Run the free, open-source Orb server on your own computer and your phone becomes its remote. Ask for real work from anywhere — "clean up my downloads folder" — and carry on with your day until the receipt lands: "Done. 214 files sorted, three gigs freed." Your machine did the work. Your phone just told you. JUST SAY IT Voice-first, human answers. "Remind me at eight" — "Done, eight tonight." No menus, no forms, no robot voice reading bullet points. IT REMEMBERS What you said last week. What you asked it never to let you skip. Where you left off. One continuous assistant across voice and chat — whichever AI engine you plug in, Orb stays Orb. ACTUALLY YOURS No account. No developer cloud — we couldn't read your data if we wanted to, because there's nothing of ours to read it with. Choose which AI powers it, swap anytime, name it what you like. Self-host and nothing ever leaves hardware you own. You've been promised this assistant for fifteen years. Nobody built it, because it can't be built in someone else's cloud — an assistant this close to your life only works if it's yours.

Screenshots

Friday4 screens
Orb4 screens

Verdict

The call

Friday and Orb are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Friday against 5.0 for Orb. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Friday ships an update every 6 days, Orb every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Friday versus Orb: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFridayOrb
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB7 MB
Age rating17+12+
Developerboxes-ksNATHAN BOYD LANGLEY

Customer experience

Friday

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Orb

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Friday

No in-app purchases

None

Orb

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Friday free?
Friday is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orb free?
Orb is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Friday or Orb?
Friday and Orb are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Friday or Orb have ads?
Neither Friday nor Orb shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Friday or Orb?
Friday ships an update every 6 days, and Orb every 5 days. Most recently, Friday was updated on October 7, 2026 and Orb on October 5, 2026.

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