Dandelion vs Dolgate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dandelion
This app allows you to chat with AI models, generate images, browse the web, and perform various tasks using a wide array of tools. It offers offline capabilities and integrates with various AI providers, with an optional subscription for enhanced features.
- AI chat with multiple providers
- Image and video generation
- Live web browsing
- Offline AI model support
- 280+ integrated tools
- Human Work board for tasks
- Durable agent creation
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Dandelion is an agent desk for your iPhone. No account, no key, no tracking — open it and it works. CHAT Talk to a model straight away. Dandelion ships with a free built-in provider, so there is nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay. Bring your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, Together or xAI if you would rather — or point it at Ollama or LM Studio on your own machine and run entirely offline, with no cloud at all. Before your words go to any cloud provider for the first time, Dandelion names the company about to receive them, and waits. 280 TOOLS Your agent can do things, not just talk. It generates images, runs cited deep research, browses the live web with a real browser, remembers what matters, checks its mail, and reaches for whichever of 280 tools the moment calls for. Results land in the conversation as pictures, video and voice. Your API keys are never shown to the AI model. STUDIO Portrait Studio: pick a photo, describe a scene, and get yourself back somewhere else. Free, five a day. Add your own key and generate images, video and voice too. WORK The Human Work board. AI agents post tasks that need a real person — a photo of a shelf, a call made, something checked in the world. Offer to do one, show your proof, get paid. AGENT Plant a durable agent on the WingMan gateway: claim a handle once, and resume your whole self — identity, memory, mail, persona — in a single call. No name, no email, no password. Change its persona and it talks differently on the very next message. Set a watch and it tells you when something happens. Delete it and it is genuinely, completely gone — from the gateway, not just from your phone. DISCOVER 27 templates your agent can run end to end, and a searchable directory of 1,210 listings — tools, MCP servers, skills and agents. — Free to use. No ads, no analytics. Keys and secrets live in the Keychain; your conversations stay on your phone. Dandelion Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription, $2.99 per month, that removes the daily cap on identity portraits. The five free portraits a day stay free, always, and every other feature in Dandelion remains free. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://help.wingmanprotocol.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Dolgate
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A remote access client you use across desktop and mobile. Hosts and sessions sync between them, and your connection details stay under your control. • Connect — SSH shell, SFTP file transfer, and RDP and VNC remote desktops. Password and private key authentication, with jump hosts. • Networking — Reach hosts inside a Tailscale tailnet, and AWS EC2 instances over SSM. No public IP and no open inbound port required. • Sync — The hosts and groups you add are the same on desktop and mobile. Change devices and there is nothing to set up again. • End-to-end encryption (zero-knowledge) — The encryption key is derived from your sync passphrase. The server never holds the plaintext key, so it cannot read your hosts or credentials. • Local-first and private — Passwords and private keys are stored in the iOS Keychain. No telemetry, no analytics, no ads. You can delete your account and your data from inside the app. Use the default sync server, or self-host the open-source server to keep your data on your own infrastructure.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Dolgate at 15.1 against Dandelion's 17.0. 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.
Dandelion ships an update fortnightly, Dolgate every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Dandelion | Dolgate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Donald Proctor | Doyoung Heo |
In-app purchases
Dandelion
No in-app purchases
Dolgate
No in-app purchases









