Productivity comparison
Aidetector Cx vs Dreamlock
Screening text, images, video and voice for AI-generation signals before publication or submission · iPhone users who want to capture a dream in seconds at 3 AM - mumble a voice note, Face ID keeps the journal locked, and wake to a written retelling with a painted card and symbol notes. The free tier (unlimited capture, 3 painted cards a week, 10 questions) is enough to decide. Not a fit for Android users (iPhone only), or for anyone who wants their notes to never leave the device - interpretation requires a server round-trip to Anthropic and OpenAI, which the policy states plainly.
| Decision point | AIDetector.cx | Dreamlock |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Screening text, images, video and voice for AI-generation signals before publication or submission | iPhone users who want to capture a dream in seconds at 3 AM - mumble a voice note, Face ID keeps the journal locked, and wake to a written retelling with a painted card and symbol notes. The free tier (unlimited capture, 3 painted cards a week, 10 questions) is enough to decide. Not a fit for Android users (iPhone only), or for anyone who wants their notes to never leave the device - interpretation requires a server round-trip to Anthropic and OpenAI, which the policy states plainly. |
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Price | Free (5 trial checks) + Pro $10/mo billed annually ($120/yr) - Pro Plus $24.17/mo ($290/yr) - Business $65.83/mo ($790/yr) | Free tier forever: unlimited dream capture, 3 painted dream cards per week, 10 questions. Dreamlock Plus: $4.99/month or $39.99/year (7-day free trial on the annual plan), billed by Apple In-App Purchase, cancelable in iOS Settings. Verified 2026-11-02 on the homepage. |
| AIToolsEssentials editorial score | 4.0/5 | 4.1/5 |
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Evidence status
Free: 5 introductory checks total (1 guest + 4 signed-in), no recurring reset. Pro $10/month billed annually ($120/year) with 300 credits/month. Pro Plus US$29/month or US$290/year - 1,000 credits/month. Business US$79/month or US$790/year - 3,000 credits/month with up to 5 team seats. Annual billing is charged upfront and grants credits monthly on the renewal cycle. Credit costs vary by job: standard text/image/video detection 1 credit, advanced image & deepfake analysis 4 credits/image, forensic video & deepfake 6 credits per 30s, citation verification 1 credit per 5 references, hallucination checking 2 credits per 1,000 words. Verified 2026-10-08 from /pricing plus the shipped /assets/index-*.js monthlyPrice literals (12/29/79), which agree.
Official sources checked 2026-10-08Open verification questions
- Payment processor attribution differs across two live legal pages - the Privacy Policy names Paystack for billing while the Cookie Policy names Stripe (plus a Stripe cookie table). Both may be accurate for different layers, but the checkout flow was not exercised.
- No independent third-party accuracy evaluation is published; the benchmark figures are the vendor's own results on a 400-document internal corpus.
- Security posture is now unanswered rather than contradicted - the former 'SOC-2 Type II Certified' footer claim was removed in the 2026-10-08 fix, and no replacement certification or audit detail is published.
- The free tier is five one-time introductory checks (1 guest + 4 signed-in), not a recurring free plan.
Not a FormSubmit submission - an inbound affiliate/partnership offer to partnerships@aidetector.cx, held from 2026-10-06 pending two publication blockers. Editorial entry written independently; no vendor copy reused. Both blockers verified cleared on the live site 2026-10-08: (1) the training-use contradiction is gone - both /detector and /privacy now state submitted analysis text is not used to train or fine-tune detection models on any plan, and the old Enterprise/Professional-scoped opt-out sentence no longer exists; (2) the four named third-party testimonials (Forbes / Stripe / HubSpot / Nature Portfolio) have been removed from /detector. The vendor also removed the SOC-2 Type II footer claim and the 98.7% / 1.2s / 12.4M+ / 142+ marketing figures. Verified the same day from the live pages: /pricing (plans 12/29/79 monthly, 120/290/790 annual, 300/1,000/3,000 credits), /privacy (data controller AIDetector.cx Inc., Berkeley CA; 12-month analysis history retention, deletable from the dashboard; no training use), /terms (you retain ownership of submitted content; output licensed for personal or commercial use; governed by California law), /cookies (Cloudflare / Stripe / Supabase), and a sitemap listing ~40 pages. Operator: AIDetector.cx Inc., a named legal entity, not a sole-proprietor microsite. Name is shared with unrelated live detectors on aidetector.com and aidetector.ai, so the listing carries the exact .cx domain. Affiliate terms confirmed in writing 2026-10-08 - 30% recurring on eligible subscription payments for the lifetime of the customer, monthly and annual eligible, 30-day attribution window, 30-day hold, $50 minimum payout.
Free tier forever: unlimited capture, 3 painted dream cards/week, 10 questions. Dreamlock Plus $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr (7-day free trial on annual), billed via Apple In-App Purchase, price shown in app before purchase. Checked 2026-11-02 on https://dreamlock.app/.
Official sources checked 2026-11-02Submitted via form 2026-10-31 13:11 UTC by costelgn@gmail.com; site publishes hello@dreamlock.app (AWS SES MX). Editorial entry written independently from live pages plus the App Store listing (seller named: Andrii Zagoruiko; App Privacy 'Data Not Linked to You'). Policy names the exact subprocessor path (Vercel relay -> Anthropic Claude for text, OpenAI image model from scene description only), states no advertising/training use with API-terms reasoning, and accurately discloses the two analytics scripts (Ahrefs cookieless + GA4) found in markup. Terms: Delaware governing law; Apple IAP billing/cancellation. Registered 2026-07-29 (Name.com); NS Vercel.
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