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title: "Pace vs Vox"
description: "An evidence-based comparison of Pace and Vox: tier picker + memory + watch mode vs 48 tools."
canonical: https://heypace.app/compared/vox/
last-updated: 2026-08-27
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# Pace vs Vox

An evidence-based comparison of Pace and Vox: tier picker + memory + watch mode vs 48 tools.

## Product posture

- **Product:** [Vox](https://github.com/vox-ai-app/vox)
- **Maintainer:** vox-ai-app
- **License:** MIT; open source under MIT
- **Runtime posture:** on-device
- **Speech-to-text:** Local (via llama.cpp)
- **Reasoner:** Local (llama.cpp)
- **Text-to-speech:** Local
- **Screen-aware:** Yes

## What the competing product does well

- 48 built-in tools for email, iMessage, file management, and screen control.
- Passphrase mode — text your Mac from any phone and get AI responses.
- MCP client with stdio, SSE, and HTTP support + wake word with barge-in.

## Where Pace differs

Vox is a true on-device peer to Pace with 48 tools and a passphrase mode Pace doesn't have. Pace has the tier picker, two-tier thread memory, recipe library, and watch mode that Vox doesn't ship. Both are MIT and fully local.

This comparison does not claim ratings, market rank, or user-review scores.