Different tools for different people. Even's built-in Conversate and IRIS Pro both run on the Even G2 — both put a live transcript, cues, and a summary on your lens, and both start in one tap with nothing to set up. Conversate is clean and built in, and it now remembers across conversations, answers from the web, and (since app 2.4, both in beta) can build a Knowledge Base from your documents and records and run a Pro mode. IRIS is just as simple to open, and she can also hear the other side of a call on your computer (Meet, Zoom or Teams in a browser tab) and put the cues on your glasses. She remembers too: people, decisions, and context across every conversation. Here's the honest side-by-side, so you can pick the one that fits.
Opens as simply as Conversate — tap Start, nothing to configure, 3-day free trial with everything on. Then the depth is there when you want it: speaker identification, people pages, Obsidian & Google Drive export, your own AI agent, custom modes, audio recordings.
Built into the Even app, with no subscription for plain Conversate (its beta Pro mode and Knowledge Base share a monthly allowance), and privacy-first: no audio is ever stored, under EU data protection. Simple and self-contained — listen, cue, summarize, and now translate inline — nothing to configure.
| Feature | IRIS Pro3rd-party · Even Hub | Even Conversate1st-party · built in |
|---|---|---|
| In the moment · on your lens | ||
| Hears the other side of a computer callMeet, Zoom or Teams in a browser tab, or any tab with sound | Yes — the IRIS Chrome extension takes the tab’s sound into your session, so cues and the summary cover both sides. How it works | Listens through the glasses or phone microphone; no direct feed from a computer tab |
| Live transcript in lensReal-time captions of the conversation | Yes | Yes |
| Captions-only accessibility modeTranscript on the lens with nothing else — no cues, nothing saved | Yes — ephemeral by design, speaker labels included | Transcription runs inside saved sessions |
| Contextual AI cuesSuggestions surfaced mid-conversation | 6 types — answers, follow-ups, explanations, fact-checks, advice, thoughts; plus recaps | Terminology explanations, public bios, answers and follow-up questions (per Even’s App Store page) |
| Live web / current-events answersPulls fresh facts during the talk | Yes — live web search, or your own search key | Yes — live web answers |
| Real-time translationUnderstand another language live | Transcribes multilingual speech in the original language; no translated output | Inline translation, recently added |
| Prep notes before a talkFeed context ahead of time | Yes — multiple files, per mode | Add notes or upload documents to generate Prep Notes; limits not documented |
| Ask your assistant mid-conversationDirect question, answer on the lens | Yes — chat + push-to-talk | Even AI (“Hey Even”, Hold to Speak on the glasses) answers questions; use inside a live Conversate session is not documented |
| Spoken answers (beta)Ask out loud, hear the answer in the assistant’s own voice | Yes — on the glasses, or a spoken back-and-forth on the phone; a once-a-day good morning with what’s ahead, otherwise never speaks unless spoken to | Not documented |
| Custom action buttonsYour own one-tap prompts on the live talk | Yes — tap a button, IRIS runs your instruction on everything said so far, answer on the lens | Not offered |
| Voice-following teleprompterScript tracks your speech, holds place on interruptions | Yes — follows your voice, marks your place when interrupted, cues the answer | Not offered |
| Audience Q&A on the lensRoom asks and votes from their own phones, no account | Yes — six-character join code or QR, top-voted question in front of your eyes | Not offered |
| Hands-free hub on the glasses (beta)Run the app from the lens, no phone | Yes — ask a question, read your agenda & to-dos, or command your agent, all on the lens | Not offered |
| Narrow cue columnSlim centered cues — reading looks like a glance | Yes — narrow/medium/wide, long cues widen just enough to fit | Not offered |
| Type a question or a note on the ringWhen you can’t speak: a meeting, a quiet train | Yes — spell each word with swipes and taps on the R1 ring, in a session, on Ask or on Terminal, then ask IRIS, send it to your agent or keep it as a note in the session (Pro). Silent Input by akelu of OcuClaw | Not listed; the ring controls Conversate with gestures |
| Knowing who's who | ||
| Speaker identificationTells who is speaking | Yes — voice enrollment + wearer detection | Transcript only |
| Name & relabel speakersPut real names to a conversation | Yes — including past sessions, and correcting a name she got wrong teaches the voice | Not offered |
| After the conversation | ||
| AI summaryKey points & action items | Yes | Yes — organized in the Even app |
| Memory across conversationsRemembers you session to session | Yes — carries people, tasks & context between sessions | Yes — remembers across conversations |
| Chat historyReopen a past chat and carry on | Yes — every Ask conversation kept and listed by day, session chats filed under their session | Not offered |
| Summary templatesShape the recap to the use-case | 19 templates | Single format |
| To-dos, reminders, briefingsCaptured from what was said, kept across sessions | Yes | Not offered |
| Calendar feedAppointments on the glasses | Yes — read-only .ics | Not offered |
| Ask about your own documentsLoad a contract, handbook or spec and ask about it hands-free | Yes — answers from the matching passage, quoted, with the document and section named; says so when it isn’t in there | Knowledge Base (beta): upload documents and add past Conversate records as sources for cues and answers |
| Your files, thousands of themExcel and CSV too: ask a spreadsheet how many, how much or which was highest | Yes — as many files as you like, Excel and CSV included; exact totals worked out from every row (Pro) | Knowledge Base (beta) takes uploaded documents; size limits not published |
| Your data | ||
| Audio recordingKeep the audio, not just text | Yes — optional, off by default, stored privately in IRIS’s cloud | By design — transcripts only, no audio kept |
| Export to ObsidianInto your own vault | Yes — auto after each session | Not offered |
| Export to Google DriveA doc per session | Yes — auto after each session | Not offered |
| To-do sync to a task appGoogle Tasks or Todoist, both directions | Yes — edits, dates and deletes travel both ways | Not offered |
| Your car from the lensTesla, through your own Tessie account | Yes — charge and climate by voice; opening it asks first | Not offered |
| Your bookmarks as contextRaindrop, or a self-hosted Karakeep | Yes — Ask searches your own library and cites the link | Not offered |
| Where it's storedWho holds your conversations | Your device and your integrations, plus a cloud backup we hold so you can restore | Even app, with optional File and Record Cloud Sync — EU data protection |
| Make it yours | ||
| Custom modesDifferent behavior per context | Yes — Family, Sales, … with categories | Single experience |
| Bring your own AI keysRun on your own accounts | Your own AI and speech-to-text keys — or managed | Managed only |
| Your own AI agentPipe sessions to a personal agent, or run cues on your own model | Yes — Hermes or OpenClaw with auto-memory, or any OpenAI-compatible model, including one running on your own machine (guide) | Not offered |
| Use it from ChatGPTAsk ChatGPT about your conversations; on plans that allow it, send scripts and chats back | Yes — add IRIS to ChatGPT on the web (guide) | Not offered |
| Use it from ClaudeAsk Claude about your conversations; send scripts and chats back | Yes — add IRIS to Claude as a connector (guide) | Not offered |
| Bring your ChatGPT and Claude chats inYour past chats, Projects and saved memories, for cues and Ask to use | Yes — the IRIS browser extension syncs them (guide) | Not offered |
| Voice capture with the app closed (beta)"Hey Even" in your own words → to-dos, notes, timed reminders (emailed, listed and moved by voice), calendar events; ask about memories and recent recordings. | Yes — to-dos, notes, reminders & calendar cards, answers from your memory on the lens | QuickList notes only |
| Model & availability | ||
| PriceCost to the wearer | $14.99/mo · $149.99/yr · 3-day trial | Free for plain Conversate; the beta Pro mode and Knowledge Base share a monthly allowance |
| DistributionHow you get it | Install from Even Hub or Glassly | Built into the Even app |
| Data-protection posturePrivacy stance | Per-request relay. Pro backs up sessions and Ask chats to IRIS’s cloud (on by default, switch off in Settings) | EU standards, no audio stored |
The short version: Conversate is a clean, native tool — built in, no audio stored, and growing a Knowledge Base and a beta Pro mode. IRIS Pro is for people who want to own what their glasses hear: who spoke, an exportable record, their tools written into, their own agent, their own keys. Different tools for different people.
Compared on 23 August 2026 against Conversate in the Even Realities app v2.2.9, with the memory and live-web rows updated on 14 September 2026 as Conversate gained both, and the Knowledge Base, price and storage rows updated on 27 October 2026 for app 2.4.0 (App Store, Even's privacy notice), using Even Realities' Conversate page and support docs; the IRIS column was last updated for IRIS 2.1.372 in November 2026. Even Realities' other first-party apps are not included. Conversate may have changed since; if you spot something out of date, tell us at [email protected].