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Fenn vs Brainy

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Fenn compared with Brainy
DetailFenn logo FennBrainy logo Brainy
What it doesPrivate AI for macOS that finds what you saved, saw, or heard Autonomous Chief of Staff for engineering leads and founders. Lives in Telegram and Slack.
StageNot given Startup
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inFR Not given
Pricing modelPaid Freemium
PricingFlex: $9/month billed annually with 6+ months free. Lifetime: $249 one-time payment with 6+ months free, includes 1 year of updates and lifetime access. Teams: $999 one-time payment with 6+ months free, includes all features for 5 Macs, lifetime access, and 1 year of updates. Starter: Free forever. Pro: $9/month. Chief: $35/month. Monthly billing, cancel anytime, no credit card to start.
Key features
  • Search inside 100+ file types including PDFs, videos, audio, images, documents, and design files
  • Screen memory search to recall meetings, chats, shared screens, and dashboards
  • Semantic and keyword search across files
  • Agentic search to find files matching specific criteria
  • Face recognition search
  • Auto-organize folders with files matching your criteria
  • Rename files automatically based on their content
  • Chat with files privately with citations to the source
  • Extract file data to CSV format
  • Anonymize sensitive information before sharing files
  • Text, voice, and photo capture in Slack and Telegram
  • Whisper-v3 voice transcription with 99.8% accuracy
  • Three-stage follow-up cadence: morning digest, nudge, and escalation
  • Bidirectional sync with Obsidian, Notion, and Markdown vaults
  • Meeting CoS that joins calls and converts notes to tasks
  • Brain scans across Notion, Obsidian, and Google Sheets
  • Approval inbox for all proposed vault writes
  • Brain Health score tracking open loop hygiene and clarity
  • Deduplication of repeating commitments across threads
What makes it different
  • Works offline with no file uploads required
  • Search across screen memory for content that was never saved as files
  • Supports 100+ file types from documents to creative files to code
  • Unlimited private AI chat with your files
  • Does not train its own AI model on user tasks
  • Approval-based vault sync prevents silent data overwrites
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)12 +1 (up) since last checkNot checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)90
Citation Flow (Majestic)210
Referring domains (Majestic)1630

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