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A network test on 20 October 2026: what each app connects to when you open it, download a model, chat and leave it idle. Methodology and raw numbers.

Retention, deletion, training and export for twelve chatbots, from each company's own help pages, checked on 20 October 2026.

Gemma 4, Qwen3.5, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K3, GLM-5.3, Mistral Small 4, gpt-oss, Llama 4 and LFM2.5: what each is best at, licences, benchmarks, hardware, and how to run them.

iPhone 11 to 15 run iOS 27 without Apple Intelligence. Pinku, Locally AI, PocketPal, Private LLM, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Vibe ranked: offline or cloud, requirements and price.

What Apple's own pages say runs on the device and what goes to Private Cloud Compute, and how to check it on your iPhone.

Siri AI is an English-only beta, missing on iPhone in the EU and in China. What it does and the apps that cover each part, country by country.

Drop, White Noise Lite, Rain Rain, Dark Noise, myNoise, BetterSleep, Calm and Endel ranked: sounds, mixing, sleep timer and how each charges. Ours is first, disclosed.

Crypton, Crypto Pro, CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, CoinStats, Delta and CoinTracker ranked: prices, portfolios, wallet sync, taxes and privacy labels. Ours is first, disclosed.

3 Tasks, Three Todo, Top 3, Structured and TickTick ranked: the limit, timers, price and privacy label. Ours is first, disclosed.

Dora, HeyGen, Captions, Vmake Labs and Zeely ranked for UGC-style ads: product scenes, talking avatars, editing and launching. Ours is first, disclosed.

Runway, Kling AI, Pika, PixVerse, Luma Dream Machine, invideo, CapCut and our own Dora: what each one is best at, how it charges, and who it is for.

Five apps that answer with no connection and no account, ranked, including which ones you can get in Russia, mainland China and Hong Kong, where ChatGPT is not offered. Ours is first, disclosed.

Six on-device AI apps ranked by how little leaves the phone: privacy labels, cloud options and open source. Pinku, ours, is fourth.

Seven vaults that lock each album on its own, ranked by how much stays off other people's servers. Ours is first, disclosed.

Seven apps that put GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek in one place: models, extras and how they charge. Ours is first, disclosed.

Seven apps that chat and make images, some with video. Ours is first, disclosed.

Why a new iPhone often brings the vault back empty, and how each vault app moves. Ours is one of them, disclosed.

Why the Hidden album still reaches iCloud, and four ways to hide photos that stay on the phone, ranked. Ours is first, disclosed.

Pinku, Locally AI, Private LLM, Enclave, PocketPal and Privacy AI ranked: price, models, Mac support, privacy label and where each one is strongest. Ours is first, disclosed.

Pic Safe, Keepsafe, Arca and our own Photo Vault against the Hidden album that comes with the phone. The real choice is whether your private photos should have a backup.

Retention windows, human review and training defaults for the three main assistants, taken from their own published policies. Google keeps human-reviewed chats for three years after you delete them.

Five layers sit between the button and the conversation being gone. We asked OpenAI and Anthropic to delete our data; neither said it was gone, and both were being accurate.