BonZaï vs Sage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BonZaï
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BonZaï keeps all your gift cards and tickets on iPhone, ready to scan at checkout or at the venue entrance. Each card's balance updates with every purchase, expiry alerts fire before it's too late, and everything is shared with family via iCloud — each person from their own iPhone. • Gift cards and tickets in one app • Continuous burst scanning, bright full-screen display • Real-time iCloud vault sharing • Smart expiry reminders • iPad layout, custom appearance, English or French Free, ad-free, tracker-free. Your data stays on your iPhone and your iCloud account. BonZaï — your voucher vault, in your pocket.
Sage
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Sage is an AI assistant that runs entirely on your iPhone. All processing — chat generation, image understanding, speech recognition, text recognition — happens locally on your device. Nothing is ever sent to any server. WHY SAGE IS DIFFERENT • Fully offline: works in airplane mode • Zero tracking: no third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking SDKs • No subscriptions: one-time in-app purchase unlocks every pro feature • Fully transparent: models are downloaded from public sources like Hugging Face WHAT'S INSIDE Smart Chat • 8 dedicated templates: free chat, translator, writing polish, code review, email draft, weekly report, tutor, brainstorm • Image understanding (vision model required) • Document analysis (PDF / Word / Markdown / plain text) with automatic RAG retrieval • Streaming output, read-aloud, copy, re-edit AI Tools • Image Playground: generate images from a sentence (requires iPhone 15 Pro or newer with Apple Intelligence) • AI Cutout: auto-lift the subject, swap background, or export as 512×512 sticker for iMessage • Photo Search: find photos in plain language — "sunset at the beach", "dog with a ball" • Privacy Redaction: auto-detect faces, emails, card numbers, ID numbers; mosaic them in one tap; manual region also supported • Meeting Recorder: record → on-device transcription → AI summary as Markdown • Handwriting OCR: scan multiple pages → recognize → AI-polish into clean Markdown • Live Translation: hands-free two-way conversation, hit the mic and speak Models & Backends • Defaults to Apple Foundation Models (auto-enabled on iPhone 15 Pro+ with Apple Intelligence) • Open-source MLX models supported: Llama 3.2 1B, Qwen2.5 1.5B / 3B, Qwen2-VL 2B, and more • Models range from 0.7 GB to 2 GB — pick what fits your device System Integration • Fully localized: English, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese • Liquid Glass design (iOS 26+), graceful fallback on older systems • Home-screen widget for quick access • Share Extension: send text from any app into Sage • Siri / App Intents: "Hey Siri, ask Sage to translate this" PRIVACY We do not collect, upload, or store any of your data. See in-app Settings → Privacy Policy for details. CONTACT Questions or feedback? Reach the developer via the App Store reviews. NEW IN 1.2 • Search, pin, and rename conversations • Custom editable prompt templates • Meeting summary export with optional speaker labels • Extra small instruct models in the catalog • Lock Screen / Control Center controls and interactive widgets • Adaptive iPad two-column layout
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BonZaï at none against Sage's 1. BonZaï also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 months). Sage's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Sage sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BonZaï asks for nothing beyond the download.
BonZaï ships an update daily, Sage every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BonZaï | Sage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arnaud Gaydamour | 利莎 甘 |
In-app purchases
BonZaï
No in-app purchases
Sage
- Unlock Open-Source Models$2.99









