Comparison

Opensteer vs Vays

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

Head to head
About

Opensteer

Features
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Opensteer puts your AI agents in your pocket. Watch every running task from anywhere, answer the questions that need you, and keep work moving without opening your laptop. WATCH EVERYTHING LIVE See what your agents are doing right now โ€” live status, progress, and results for every running task. ONE PING WHEN IT MATTERS Approvals and questions land as notifications. Everything else waits quietly until you're ready. REVIEW REAL WORK Read diffs, browse files, and inspect terminal output from your phone. Reply, redirect, or approve in a tap. YOUR MACHINES OR THE CLOUD Run work in hosted cloud environments, or pair the app with your own computers running the open-source Opensteer server. Opensteer requires an Opensteer account. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email.

About

Vays

Features
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Your AI writes Markdown all day. Now you can read it anywhere. VAYS MD is a native iPhone and iPad reader and editor for .md files โ€” READMEs, specs, meeting notes, transcripts. Open a file and read it like a document, with real typography, not source code. No cloud in the middle. Nothing leaves your device. READ โ€ข GitHub Flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, strikethrough โ€ข Callout cards โ€” GitHub [!NOTE] / [!TIP] / [!WARNING] and Obsidian styles โ€ข Display math typeset natively โ€” no web view โ€ข shields.io badges drawn natively, front-matter shown as a tidy card โ€ข Footnotes become superscripts with gathered definitions โ€ข Mermaid blocks appear as clean code cards (full diagram rendering is on the roadmap) โ€ข Dark mode tuned for night reading WRITE โ€ข Source editor with Markdown highlighting โ€ข Autosave straight back to the file โ€” no export dance โ€ข Works with the Files app: iCloud Drive, On My iPhone, and any provider PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No analytics. No network requests. Your documents stay in your storage, exactly where they were. BETTER TOGETHER WITH THE MAC APP VAYS MD Reader for Mac adds a folder library, Mermaid diagrams rendered offline, a visual diagram creator, QuickLook, PDF export and Claude Code integration. Same design, same privacy. PART OF THE VAYS FAMILY From the maker of Vays, the private voice-note app. Record on the go, read the transcript beautifully. Built by a solo developer. Every feedback email is read.

Screenshots

Opensteer4 screens
Vays4 screens

Verdict

The call

Opensteer and Vays are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Opensteer versus Vays: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpensteerVays
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS18.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size79 MB14 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperTrendUp AI, Inc.ARVIND JUNEJA OUMM

In-app purchases

None

Opensteer

No in-app purchases

None

Vays

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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