Comparison

BonZaï vs smartLLM

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

Head to head
About

BonZaï

Features
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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.

About

smartLLM

Features
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smartLLM runs a real large language model entirely on your iPhone. Your chat messages are never sent anywhere — every answer is generated by your phone's own chip. • Fully on-device inference (powered by llama.cpp) • Chat messages never leave your phone — no server, no account, no sign-up • smartLLM Pro (one-time purchase): search and download additional GGUF models from Hugging Face, inside the app • Checks your device's memory before downloading, so you don't end up with a model your phone can't run • Streaming responses, multi-turn chat history, stop generation anytime • Downloading the default model and chatting are free. No ads and no subscription ABOUT "OFFLINE" Chatting is fully offline. The app only uses the internet when you search for or download a model from Hugging Face, and for in-app purchase features through the App Store (StoreKit), such as loading the price, purchasing, and restoring. A NOTE ON AI CONTENT Answers are generated by a language model and may be inaccurate or inappropriate. Please verify anything important yourself, and don't rely on it for critical decisions.

Screenshots

BonZaï4 screens
smartLLM3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BonZaï at none against smartLLM's 1. BonZaï also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). smartLLM's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. smartLLM sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BonZaï asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BonZaï ships an update daily, smartLLM every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
BonZaï versus smartLLM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBonZaïsmartLLM
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB11 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperArnaud GaydamourYONONAKA LLC

In-app purchases

None

BonZaï

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

smartLLM

One-time1
  • smartLLM Pro$5.99

Questions

Is BonZaï free?
BonZaï is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is smartLLM free?
smartLLM is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BonZaï or smartLLM have ads?
Neither BonZaï nor smartLLM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BonZaï or smartLLM?
BonZaï ships an update daily, and smartLLM every 2 weeks. Most recently, BonZaï was updated on October 7, 2026 and smartLLM on October 25, 2026.

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