Comparison

Messages Agent Store vs Nox

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

Head to head
About

Messages Agent Store

Discover and interact with AI agents directly within your messaging app. Browse a directory of agents for various tasks like travel, assistance, and social interaction, then start a chat with them instantly. No accounts or downloads are required.

Highlights
  • Browse AI agents by category
  • Instant chat initiation
  • No account or download needed
  • Offline directory access
  • Private by design, no data collection
Features
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Meet the agents you can text. Agent Store is a directory of AI agents that live right inside your Messages app. Browse them like an app store, tap a button, and a new chat opens. That is the whole thing. No account, no download, no setup. How it works: 1. Browse the featured agent, category sections, and search. 2. Tap the blue Text button on any agent you like. 3. A new Messages chat opens with that agent. Say hi and go. A few of the agents you can text today: Travel Soar is your AI travel companion. Karpo is a travel concierge in your pocket. Assistants Caddy handles your work by text. Orchid runs your day. Allora sends the reminders you actually need. Dating and Social 222 helps you meet people in real life. Series makes warm introductions. Alfi keeps the group chat moving. Health and Careers Nudge is daily fitness coaching over text. Clera is an AI talent agent working for you. More agents, including Tomo and Sidekicks, plus everything new, live at textagent.store. Private by design: Agent Store collects no data. None. The directory is bundled inside the app and rendered on your device, so it works offline and needs no account. No sign in, no analytics, no tracking, nothing phoned home. The agents you text are independent services, and every conversation happens in Messages, just like texting a friend. Open the Messages app drawer, find your next agent, and text it. See the full lineup at iMessage.store.

About

Nox

Features
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Nox blocks ads and trackers across your whole iPhone — not just in Safari. Games, news apps, shopping apps, free utilities: most of them talk to advertising and tracking companies constantly, in the background, whether or not you see an ad. Nox stops those requests before they leave your phone. EVERYTHING HAPPENS ON YOUR DEVICE The blocklists live on your iPhone. Every decision about every request is made there. Nox has no server. There is nothing to send your browsing to, and nothing to leak. We do not collect, store, or share what you look up — not because we promise not to, but because the app is built so that the information never leaves your phone in the first place. WHAT YOU GET • Blocking across every app, not only the browser • Safari extensions that also remove the empty gaps ads leave behind • Over 300,000 domains from respected community blocklists, updated automatically • A single switch, and sensible defaults • Allow any domain in one tap if something you use stops working WHAT NOX CANNOT BLOCK Nox blocks by domain name, and we would rather tell you where that stops than let you find out. When an app serves its ads from the same address as its content — most video and social apps do — there is no way to separate them without breaking the app. Ads stitched directly into a video stream cannot be removed either. No blocker on iOS can do these things, and any that claims otherwise is overstating what the platform allows. What Nox does very well is the enormous amount of advertising, tracking, analytics and telemetry that comes from somewhere else. On a typical phone that is thousands of requests a day. FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT THE DETAIL Pro adds malware and phishing blocking, protection profiles, per-category control, a searchable log of every blocked request, and your choice of encrypted DNS resolver. Add any blocklist by URL — Pi-hole lists, hosts files, domain lists, Adblock-syntax rules — write your own rules by hand, and inspect exactly why any domain was or wasn't blocked. Ad and tracker blocking itself is free and stays free. The paid plans add visibility and control, never the ability to block an ad. ABOUT THE VPN PERMISSION To filter across every app, Nox runs a small DNS resolver on your device. iOS treats that as a VPN configuration, so it will ask your permission and show a VPN badge. Nox is not a VPN service. Your traffic is not routed through anyone else's servers. Only name lookups pass through Nox, and only on your phone — everything else takes its usual path. SAFARI Safari needs its own switch, in Settings → Apps → Safari → Extensions. Turning on the Nox blockers removes ads and the blank spaces they leave behind. — Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled and can be managed in your Apple account. Nox Pro and Pro+ are auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period ending. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://supr.design/nox-privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Messages Agent Store3 screens
Nox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Messages Agent Store at none against Nox's 4. On price, ads, device support 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. Nox sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Messages Agent Store asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Messages Agent Store versus Nox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMessages Agent StoreNox
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB9 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSoar Intelligence Inc.shrutesh sharma

In-app purchases

None

Messages Agent Store

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Nox

Subscriptions4
  • Nox Pro$2.991 Month
  • Nox Pro+$4.991 Month
  • Nox Pro$24.991 Year
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  • Nox Pro+3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Messages Agent Store free?
Messages Agent Store is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nox free?
Nox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Messages Agent Store or Nox have ads?
Neither Messages Agent Store nor Nox shows ads.

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