SimDeck Studio vs CoreAI Zoo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimDeck Studio
Access and control your mobile development simulators remotely from your phone or tablet. Stream live simulator screens and manage device sessions without being tied to your desktop.
- Live simulator screen streaming
- Remote simulator control
- Device session management
- Stream setting adjustments
- Secure pairing options
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SimDeck puts your mobile development simulators in your hand. It is built for mobile developers and QA workflows when you want live simulator access without staying glued to your desktop. Use SimDeck to: - View live simulator and emulator screens with WebRTC streaming - Browse available devices and switch between sessions quickly - Start and stop simulators from your phone or iPad - Tune stream resolution, frame rate, and encoder settings - Pair securely with QR codes, LAN addresses, Tailscale, or SimDeck Studio links SimDeck requires the SimDeck CLI/server running on your Mac or development machine. Install SimDeck, run simdeck pair, scan the QR code, and your development devices are ready to control from iOS.
CoreAI Zoo
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CoreAI Zoo puts the open-weight AI model zoo on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Pick a model, download it once, and run it entirely on your device. No account, no server, and nothing you type, say or photograph ever leaves the device. CHAT Stream answers from open language models such as Qwen3, Gemma, LFM2.5, Granite and Mistral, from 0.6B to 30B+ parameters depending on your device's memory. Vision-language models (Qwen3-VL, MiniCPM-V, LFM2.5-VL) answer questions about your photos. VISION Ask questions about an image, read text with on-device OCR, and describe what the camera sees. AUDIO Transcribe speech with Whisper large-v3-turbo, Parakeet and Qwen3-ASR. Talk to an audio-understanding model, generate speech with Kokoro and VoxCPM, and try on-device music generation. CAMERA Live depth estimation, object detection (YOLOX, RF-DETR), action recognition and super-resolution on the camera feed. TOOLS Experimental models such as diffusion-based language models. BENCH Measure load time, tokens per second and memory for any chat model on your own hardware. HOW IT WORKS Every model runs through Core ML on Apple silicon. Weights are downloaded from the Hugging Face Hub on first use over HTTPS, then cached, so the app works offline afterwards. One model is resident at a time to stay within memory limits. New models arrive through a live catalog without an app update. GETTING STARTED Start with Qwen3-0.6B (454 MB) for the fastest first run. Larger models state the free space and memory they need; a recent iPhone Pro or an Apple silicon Mac runs the mid-size ones comfortably. Model weights follow their own licenses, listed on each model's Hugging Face page. The app itself is BSD-3-Clause and part of the open CoreAI model zoo. Report issues and request models at github.com/john-rocky/coreai-model-zoo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SimDeck Studio at 17.0 against CoreAI Zoo's 27.0. On price, update cadence, ads 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimDeck Studio | CoreAI Zoo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | nStudio LLC | Daisuke Majima |
In-app purchases
SimDeck Studio
No in-app purchases
CoreAI Zoo
No in-app purchases









