lamos vs Brae
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
lamos
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Lamos is a private, on-device AI assistant for iPhone and iPad. Download a model once, then chat fully offline with no account, no cloud processing, no tracking and no limits. Analyze text, documents, and images with supported models, then tune settings for speed or quality. Your conversations stay on your device. Available models are: - Qwen 3.5 (Alibaba): text + image (vision) - Gemma 4 (Google): text + image (vision) - Ministral (MistralAI): text + image (vision) - Bielik (SpeakLeash): text - LFM 2.5 (Liquid AI): text - LFM 3 (Liquid AI): text Use built-in Assistants to improve your interactions with models: - General - Coding Helper - Document Summarizer - Brainstorm Partner Edit any Assistant or create your own. Good to know: At least 4 GB device RAM available - 6 GB or more (even 12 GB) recommended for best performance. App was tested on iPhone 15 and iPad Pro M1.
Brae
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Brae is a local-first AI assistant for daily work and personal notes. It gives you a calm place to chat, capture ideas, review meetings, and keep useful context on your device. Use Brae to: - Chat with an on-device assistant for everyday questions and drafts. - Talk in Live mode, with typed fallback when speech is unavailable. - Use See World to ask about what the camera sees, powered by an on-device vision model when available. - Capture Meeting Notes, edit the transcript, and save it to your Library. - Review saved notes, call records, imported files, and generated artifacts in Library. - Keep Today focused on local follow-ups from your own notes and calls. - Manage local models in Model Setup, including downloads you explicitly choose. - Control privacy-sensitive features from Settings. Brae is built around local-first behavior. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. Your chats, transcripts, notes, files, memory, and settings stay on your device by default. Brae does not operate a Bubustudio backend that stores your content. Network use is explicit and user-initiated: - Model downloads happen only when you choose to download a local model from Hugging Face. - Location, nearby-place, destination, and route lookups use Apple MapKit and Core Location only when you ask. - Optional iCloud sync is off by default and, when enabled, uses your private CloudKit database. - Optional web search is off by default. When enabled, Brae sends the search query to DuckDuckGoβs keyless Instant Answer API so results can be returned.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Brae at every 2 days against lamos's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
lamos ships an update monthly, Brae every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | lamos | Brae |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 β better | 18.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MichaΕ Tadeusz Swierczewski | Haosheng Li |
In-app purchases
lamos
No in-app purchases
Brae
No in-app purchases









