Comparison

Scira vs Saelyx

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

Head to head
About

Scira

This AI-powered assistant helps you research by answering questions, exploring various sources, and organizing your work. Attach files, use voice input, and manage related research within projects. Syncs across devices for seamless access.

Highlights
  • AI chat and web research with cited sources
  • Customizable source controls
  • File and document attachment support
  • Voice input for prompts
  • Project-based organization
  • Cross-device syncing
Features
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Scira is an AI research assistant for asking questions, exploring sources, and keeping research organized from your iPhone. Start a thread, choose the sources Scira can use, and get cited answers you can inspect. Attach images, files, and documents for context, use voice input when typing is slower, and keep related work together with projects. Scira syncs with your scira.ai account so your threads, preferences, usage, and artifacts stay available across devices. Features: - AI chat and web research with cited sources - Source controls for web, academic, Reddit, GitHub, stocks, crypto, YouTube, and more - Image, photo, document, CSV, DOCX, XLSX, and PDF attachment support - Voice input for chat prompts - Projects for organizing related threads and files - Optional notifications and Live Activities while Scira works - Privacy and legal links available in app Terms of Use (EULA): https://scira.ai/terms

About

Saelyx

Features
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Saelyx is invite-only. Request an invite at saelyx.ai and we'll let you know as soon as there's room. Saelyx is an assistant that lives with you across every device, carrying your memory, your knowledge and your files. This app is one of its doors. A MORE NATURAL VOICE Saelyx now speaks with Eleven v4, the newest voice model from ElevenLabs, on iPhone and iPad: more natural and expressive, just as fast as before and at a good pace. Ask it to look at your screen and you now get the complete answer; it used to cut off sometimes. SEES, HEARS AND ACTS AT ONCE Most assistants do one thing at a time: they read, or they listen, or they look. Saelyx does all three at once and reasons about them together. Show it your screen while you talk to it and hold something up to the camera, and it understands the three as a single situation. · Screen · reads what you have in front of you while you work. · Camera · show it something and it understands it straight away. Includes up to 10 camera photos a day; each new photo uses 2 units of your cycle. · Voice · listens to you continuously, with nothing to press. REAL CONVERSATION It answers in under a second, and you can cut in mid-sentence, the way you would with a person. IT REMEMBERS YOU, AND YOU CAN READ WHAT IT REMEMBERS What you tell it today is still there tomorrow: names, context, preferences. Out of that it distils a portrait of who you are, which you can open, edit, regenerate and delete. It is plain text, not a black box. YOUR KNOWLEDGE, INSIDE IT Upload your documents and they become its own: contracts, manuals, notes. Ask across all of them at once, by voice too, and it searches inside them, not by filename. IN YOUR MEETINGS Meeting Mode listens, follows the thread and keeps what you need in view while you're still talking. Not a summary at the end: help during. Afterwards you keep the summary and the transcript on every device. Questions asked in English get their note right away, without mic echo, and the minutes no longer split when you turn on voice. YOUR DAY, IF YOU LET IT With your permission it reads this iPhone's calendar to tell you what meetings you have. It only reads: it never creates or changes events, and it does not store the contents of your calendar. IT REMINDS YOU Ask it to remind you of something and it will. DICTATION IN ANY APP Its own keyboard so you can dictate wherever you type. ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app lets you talk to Saelyx without taking your phone out, and it replies out loud. BUILT FOR iPad On iPad it has its own sidebar and detail pane, not a stretched iPhone app. THE SAME ACCOUNT, EVERYWHERE iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and the browser. What's inside — memory, knowledge, files, meetings — is the same from any of them. YOURS, AND PORTABLE Back up your memories, notes and files, keep the backup yourself and load it back whenever you want. Export your profile and your sessions. Two-factor verification with your authenticator app, control over open sessions and devices, and full deletion of your account. BUILT AROUND YOU Tune how it answers you and how long it thinks. And teach it new skills, which it reuses. PRIVACY, SPECIFICALLY · Your voice and whatever you show it are processed on the spot, and are not stored to train models. · Your data is stored encrypted on servers in Europe, tied to your account alone. · No advertising. We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with third parties to profile you. · Before storing anything sensitive we ask you in writing, explaining what, where, for how long and how to delete it. And you can withdraw it whenever you want. · Before doing something that cannot be undone, Saelyx asks you to confirm. Saelyx talks with you using artificial intelligence. Answers can contain mistakes: check them before making decisions that matter. An internet connection is needed in order to talk. Terms of Use (EULA): https://saelyx.ai/en/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://saelyx.ai/en/privacy/

Screenshots

Scira4 screens
Saelyx4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scira at none against Saelyx's 6. Saelyx's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Saelyx sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Scira asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scira ships an update every 3 weeks, Saelyx every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Scira versus Saelyx: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSciraSaelyx
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB60 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperSCIRA AI (OPC) PRIVATE LIMITEDAdianny Ramirez

In-app purchases

None

Scira

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Saelyx

Subscriptions6
  • Saelyx Pro$17.991 Month
  • Saelyx Premium$34.991 Month
  • Saelyx Ultra$69.991 Month
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  • Saelyx Pro Annual$179.001 Year
  • Saelyx Premium Annual$349.001 Year
  • Saelyx Ultra Annual$699.001 Year

Questions

Is Scira free?
Scira is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Saelyx free?
Saelyx is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Scira or Saelyx have ads?
Neither Scira nor Saelyx shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scira or Saelyx?
Scira ships an update every 3 weeks, and Saelyx every 3 days. Most recently, Scira was updated on October 23, 2026 and Saelyx on October 28, 2026.

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