Claude

Claude Review: Files, Connectors and an 18+ Rating

It Returns Files, Not Just Text

Ask for a deck introducing your dog to a new sitter, attach a document and a PDF, and the reply is a PowerPoint file with named slides rather than a wall of text to copy out. The same applies to documents and spreadsheets, and follow-up requests edit the file in place. A second mode builds small interactive things — the store screenshots show a flashcard set generated from a request to help someone revise for a psychology exam — which sits between an answer and an app.

Connectors, and Tasks That Finish While You Are Away

Connectors link the assistant to accounts you already use: Slack, Asana, HubSpot, Google Drive, Figma, Google Calendar, Notion and Gmail appear in the store listing. Once connected, a question can be answered from your own documents rather than from the public web. Longer jobs run in the background and push a notification when they are done, so the phone can be locked while a task completes. That combination is aimed at work rather than at casual questions, which is the clearest difference from its rivals.

$20 a Month, and $249.99 at the Top

Claude Pro costs $20 monthly or $214.99 for a year. Above it, Max tiers run $124.99 and $249.99 a month for five and twenty times the usage, and one-off credit packs are sold at $28, $63 and $279. There is no advertising anywhere in the app. Apple rates it 18+, citing mature themes, medical and substance references and infrequent sexual content — the strictest rating of any assistant here. Google Play lists seven collected categories with four shared with third parties. Prices are US listings. Google Play records 50 million installs, an order of magnitude below its two largest rivals, so the community answers to common problems are thinner.