OpenClaw vs AstralDeep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OpenClaw
This personal AI assistant runs locally on your devices. Pair it with your OpenClaw Gateway to chat, use voice commands, manage approvals, and automate tasks using your iPhone's capabilities securely.
- Local-first AI assistant
- Secure device pairing
- Chat and voice modes
- Gateway action approvals
- Direct content sharing
- Device capability management
- Push notifications for workflows
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OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant you run on your own devices. Pair this iOS app with your OpenClaw Gateway to use your iPhone as a secure node for chat, voice, approvals, sharing, and device-aware automation. What you can do: - Pair with your private OpenClaw Gateway by QR code or setup code - Chat with your assistant from iPhone - Use realtime and background Talk mode - Review Gateway action approvals from your iPhone - Share text, links, and media directly from iOS into OpenClaw - Enable device capabilities such as camera, screen, location, photos, contacts, calendar, and reminders when you choose - Receive push wakes and node status updates for connected workflows OpenClaw is local-first: you control your gateway, keys, configuration, and permissions. Device access is managed by iOS permissions and can be enabled only for the capabilities you want to use. Getting started: 1) Set up your OpenClaw Gateway 2) Open the iOS app and pair with your gateway 3) Start using chat, Talk mode, approvals, and automations from your iPhone
AstralDeep
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AstralDeep gives you a team of specialist AI agents that work on your behalf — they research live sources, read your files, and keep working on your AstralDeep server after you close the app. And you can hold them to account: every tool is permission-gated, every action lands in a tamper-evident audit log, and nothing the platform builds for itself runs without your approval. AGENTS THAT ACT FOR YOU • Specialists collaborate on each request — live web research with citation-backed briefs (it never fabricates a source), summarization, weather, ML forecasting and classification, connectors, a general assistant — running multiple tools in parallel. • Hand them files in chat and they read them directly. • They remember what matters across conversations and personalize to you over time. IT KEEPS WORKING WHEN YOU DON'T • Schedule work and close the app — jobs run on your server; results are waiting in your workspace when you return. • Upload a file format it can't read yet and the platform drafts its own parser agent, self-tests it against your actual file, and submits it for administrator approval — once approved, it goes live and finishes your original request. • Ask for something no agent covers, and AstralDeep can generate a brand-new agent — security-gated, self-tested, and never run for real without explicit human approval. SECURITY YOU CAN VERIFY Delegation only works if you stay in control — and self-extension is only safe on a platform built to be inspected: • Per-tool permissions: grant and revoke access tool by tool, for every agent. Deny is the default — agents cannot touch what you haven't granted. • Tamper-evident audit: every tool call lands in a cryptographically hash-chained log you can check for tampering — see exactly what your agents did, and when. • End-to-end-encrypted credentials: service credentials you store can be decrypted only by the specific agent that needs them — the server itself never holds them in plaintext. • Attenuated authority: agents act with cryptographically scoped tokens carrying only the authority you delegated — narrower at every hop, never wider. • Sensitive-data guardrails screen text before it reaches outside services, agent network egress is gated, and every safety feature fails closed. LIVE ANSWERS, NOT WALLS OF TEXT Answers arrive as live components — dashboards, charts, tables, timelines — on a per-conversation canvas. Follow-ups update them in place, an adaptive designer arranges multi-part answers, and History steps back through earlier states. ON APPLE WATCH Sign in with a QR code (no typing), ask by voice, hear answers spoken aloud — plus glanceable cards and recent conversations. AstralDeep requires an account on an AstralDeep server; the app signs in through your organization's single sign-on.
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Verdict
OpenClaw and AstralDeep are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
OpenClaw ships an update weekly, AstralDeep every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OpenClaw | AstralDeep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (66 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | OpenClaw Foundation | Personalized AI Labs LLC |
In-app purchases
OpenClaw
No in-app purchases
AstralDeep
No in-app purchases









