Comparison

Brae vs Jarvi

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

Head to head
About

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 DuckDuckGo’s keyless Instant Answer API so results can be returned.

About

Jarvi

Features
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Ask once. Compare every AI. Other assistants give you one answer and you have to trust it. Jarvi asks several models the same question at the same time and puts the answers side by side, so you can swipe through them and keep the one that's actually right. COMPARE ANSWERS Send a message to two, three or more models at once. Swipe between the answer cards, keep the best one, and the conversation carries on from there. ONE APP, EVERY MODEL Twenty models from eleven vendors — no separate subscriptions, no separate apps. Pick a model per message, or let Jarvi pick. STUDIO Describe a picture and get it. Change the shape, make it bigger, then animate it into a short clip. Everything you make is kept and easy to find again. SKILLS Connect the tools you already use, and ask Jarvi to work with them in plain language. Add your own MCP server with a URL and a key. YOUR CONTEXT, IF YOU WANT IT Health summaries, calendar, mail, location and contacts. Each one is off by default, switched on by you, and explained before it is asked for. VOICE Hold to talk. Your words become text, and the recording is never stored. PROJECTS AND COLLECTIONS Group conversations into projects with their own files and instructions. Save any answer or picture into a collection you can come back to. JARVI PLUS Jarvi runs on credits, and Plus is how you get them: a monthly or weekly allowance, renewed automatically. Credits never expire, so a quiet month carries forward instead of vanishing, and one-off top-ups stack on top whenever you need more. Prices are shown in the app before you buy. Jarvi Plus is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://jarviai.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://jarviai.app/privacy

Screenshots

Brae4 screens
Jarvi3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brae at none against Jarvi's 5. 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. Jarvi sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Brae asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Brae versus Jarvi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBraeJarvi
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB20 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperHaosheng LiYilmaz Koknar

In-app purchases

None

Brae

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Jarvi

Subscriptions2
  • Jarvi Plus wöchentlich$3.997 Days
  • Jarvi Plus monatlich$14.991 Month
One-time3
  • 500 credits$4.99
  • 1500 credits$14.99
  • 4000 credits$39.99

Questions

Is Brae free?
Brae is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Jarvi free?
Jarvi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Brae or Jarvi have ads?
Neither Brae nor Jarvi shows ads.

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