Productivity comparison
Dreamlock vs Grammarly
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. · Business writing, grammar, tone, and communication quality across apps
| Decision point | Dreamlock | Grammarly |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | 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. | Business writing, grammar, tone, and communication quality across apps |
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Price | 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. | Free + paid plans |
| AIToolsEssentials editorial score | 4.1/5 | 4.4/5 |
Scores are editorial product assessments of job fit, likely output quality, ease of adoption, and operational cost. They are not lab benchmarks, and no tool here has a published hands-on result. How we score.
Evidence status
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.
Free: $0/month and 100 generative-AI prompts per month. Pro: displayed at $12 USD and includes 2,000 AI prompts per member per month, unlimited personalized suggestions, full-sentence rewrites, tone controls, plagiarism checking, and AI-generated-text detection. Enterprise: contact sales and includes unlimited prompts per member per month plus enterprise controls. The extracted pricing page did not unambiguously expose the billing cadence attached to the displayed $12 Pro amount.
Official sources checked 2026-09-18Open verification questions
- The billing cadence represented by the $12 Pro price was not rendered unambiguously in the retrieved official pricing text.
- Grammarly's exact treatment may differ for negotiated Enterprise agreements, which are governed by a separate Customer Business Agreement rather than the public self-service terms.
Official sources confirm AI drafting, rewriting, tone adjustment, fluency suggestions, grammar assistance, plagiarism checking, and AI-text detection. For Free, Premium, and single-user Pro accounts, Product Improvement and Training is enabled by default, but users can opt out; when disabled, user content is not used for model training, validation, or product improvement. Multi-user accounts bought directly online are also enabled by default, with an administrator opt-out. Enterprise-tier, sales-purchased Pro/Business, and Education accounts have training disabled by default. Grammarly says its external LLM service providers may receive prompts and context to provide generative features but may not train their models on user content. Under the October 29, 2025 Superhuman terms, inputs and outputs are User Content, and users own all right, title, and interest in User Content; the terms also grant Superhuman a broad license for operating, improving, customizing, and developing its services.
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