Mulberry Ai Studio vs Sidecar ML
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mulberry Ai Studio
A privacy-focused sandbox for developers to render code and view 3D models offline. It offers a native code editor with versioning and persistent remote sessions for advanced users.
- Offline rendering of React, JSX, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
- Native code editor with syntax highlighting and auto-completion
- Git-style save points for snapshotting and restoring code
- 3D model viewer for USDZ, GLB, glTF, OBJ, DAE files
- Persistent remote SSH sessions with tmux
- Privacy-focused architecture with no background analytics
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Privacy by Architecture No accounts to create. No analytics running in the background. No cloud sync unless you choose it. Your files stay on your device — iOS sandbox or macOS app container — period. Offline Rendering Engine Renders React, JSX, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS without a build server. Babel transpiles at runtime. CDN scripts are cached locally for airplane-mode development. Code Editor + Versioning Native editor with syntax highlighting and auto-completion. Git-style save points let you snapshot, diff, and restore — no git required. 3D Model Viewer Open .usdz, .glb, .gltf, .obj, and .dae files natively on iOS. Rotate, zoom, inspect — no third-party app needed. Persistent Remote Sessions Magnum Brain Tuning tier includes tmux-backed SSH sessions to your Mac orchestrator. Sessions survive network disconnects, sleep, and app restarts. Send a task from your phone and get notified when it's done.
Sidecar ML
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Turn your iPhone into a private, on-device AI server for your whole network. Sidecar ML runs a lightweight HTTP server on your iPhone that exposes Apple's built-in machine-learning models to any device on your local network. Tap Start Server, scan the QR code, and your Mac, PC, Raspberry Pi, or browser can call powerful on-device AI over plain REST — no cloud, no accounts, no API keys, no usage fees, and no data leaving your network. Everything runs on the phone. Nothing is uploaded to a server and there's nothing to pay for. (The one exception, music recognition, matches against Apple's catalog and tells you so up front.) ONE IPHONE, A DOZEN AI CAPABILITIES • Chat with the on-device large language model through a chat-completions endpoint that's compatible with the popular OpenAI API format — streaming, JSON mode, and structured output included. Point existing tools and SDKs at your phone and they just work. • Generate images from a text prompt in a choice of art styles. • OCR — pull text out of photos, receipts, and screenshots with per-line boxes and multi-language support. • Read barcodes and QR codes (EAN, Code128, and more). • Classify images across roughly a thousand categories, or produce image embeddings for similarity search. • Remove backgrounds and isolate subjects or people as clean PNG cut-outs. • Detect faces and facial landmarks, body pose, and hand pose. • Scan documents with automatic edge detection and perspective correction. • Convert speech to text and text to speech, with a wide range of voices (including Personal Voice). • Translate text between languages completely offline. • Analyse text: language, sentiment, named entities, tokens, and embeddings. • Classify sounds across hundreds of categories, or identify the music that's playing. BUILT FOR DEVELOPERS AND MAKERS • Clean REST + Server-Sent Events API — call it from curl, Python, JavaScript, or any HTTP client. • Chat endpoint compatible with the OpenAI format, so many existing tools and SDKs work unchanged. • Automatic discovery on your network via Bonjour. • Honest capability reporting: ask the server what it can do and it tells you exactly what's available on your device, and why. • Optional bearer-token authentication to lock the server down on shared networks. FREE WEB CONSOLE AND CODE EXAMPLES A ready-to-use web console — plus Python examples, a command-line client, and full API documentation — is free and open-source. Download the single-file console and browse the source here: https://github.com/AndersFB/Sidecar-ML-Console/ Open the console in any browser, enter your phone's address, and try every capability with a friendly UI — nothing to install. GOOD TO KNOW • The on-device large language model and image generation require an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone. The other capabilities run on a much wider range of devices. • The server runs while the app is in the foreground; a keep-awake option helps during longer sessions. • Some features (offline translation language pairs and certain speech models) download their models on first use. Turn the iPhone in your pocket into a private AI endpoint for your projects, your home lab, and your prototypes — Sidecar ML.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mulberry Ai Studio at fortnightly against Sidecar ML's monthly. Mulberry Ai Studio also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Mulberry Ai Studio ships an update fortnightly, Sidecar ML monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mulberry Ai Studio | Sidecar ML |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Addicted to Progress LLC | Anders Fog Bunzel |
In-app purchases
Mulberry Ai Studio
No in-app purchases
Sidecar ML
No in-app purchases









