24 AUG 2026
Tingvar vs AI Group Call
Both are live audio rooms with several AI voices in them. Tingvar runs in a browser and publishes what its latency was measured at. AI Group Call runs on iOS and Android and publishes neither a web client nor a figure.
Where they are ahead of us
They shipped. AI Group Call is on the App Store and on Google Play: iOS version 1.0 released 22 August 2026. Source: Their App Store listing. Read on 23 August 2026. People have installed it and used it. Our client application is not started, we are in no store, and zero real human sessions have taken place. That is the largest difference between the two products and it is not in our favour.
They are also the other live voice product in the crawled set. Six AI participants cast as a host, a sceptic, a strategist and others, read from aigroupcall.app homepage subhead on 23 August 2026, with an editable cast, a live transcript and interruption their own copy describes plainly. That is a larger cast than we open a room with, and a reader choosing on the size of the room should count it in their favour. Every other product in the crawled set is text. If what you want is a voice room on a phone this week, they have one and we do not.
Their unit of account is finer than ours. Read from aigroupcall.app pricing section on 23 August 2026: Pricing metered in minutes per month, with no purchase control in the pricing section. The first half of that is ahead of us. They sell minutes and we sell a session, so a person who wants to be charged for the time they actually spend has a unit there and none here. The second half is not an advantage to them and we will not dress it as one. There is no price comparison anywhere on this page, because putting the two side by side would need us to model their meter, and a comparison resting on our model of somebody else's meter is not something you could check.
Add those up before you read the rest of the page. They have a released application on two stores, a larger cast, a finer unit of account and people who have used the product. We have a browser, a measurement run and a set of published blind spots. Nothing below softens that.
Where the two products actually diverge
Two things, and both are checkable from their pages rather than from ours. The first is the browser. Their structured data lists Android and iOS as the operating systems the application runs on, and every call to action on their site ends in an app store, so a person at a desk has nothing to open. Tingvar's first surface is the browser and the mobile applications are the port.
The second is that we publish a number. Voice to voice, from you finishing a sentence to the first persona's audio, has a median of 1471 ms MEASURED 2026-08-19, 122 readings. The run behind it was 122 readings over 200 utterances against Vertex AI in us-central1 and a real media server, taken on 19 August 2026.
There is nothing to compare that against. Of the competitor properties read on 23 August 2026, the number publishing a latency figure of any kind is 0 of the eight properties we read MEASURED 2026-08-23, 8 readings. That is a statement about what is published, not about who is faster.
Barge-in is speaking over a persona so that it stops, and your voice takes the floor from whoever is holding it. Human speech preempts everything in the room. That is an invariant of the design rather than a setting you switch on, and it is why speaking is how you steer a session at all. Speaking is also how you change the subject, ask a persona to defend a claim, or stop a line of argument that is going nowhere. Barge-in is not a raised hand, not a queued turn and not a pause button. The client leg of barge-in is not yet measured, and we publish measurements rather than targets.
Row by row
| Tingvar | AI Group Call | |
|---|---|---|
| Modality | Live audio room | Live audio call |
| Runs in a browser | Yes, and it is the first surface | No. Their own structured data lists Android and iOS, and every call to action ends in an app store |
| iOS app | Not built | Yes, version 1.0, released 22 August 2026 |
| Android app | Not built | Yes |
| Voices in a room | Two to four, three by default | Six |
| What separates the voices | What each optimises for, plus a published blind spot for each | A cast of roles: a host, a sceptic, a strategist and others |
| Published blind spots | Yes, one per persona, on /personas | Not published |
| Interruption | Human speech takes the floor from whoever holds it | Claimed in body copy beside a hand built mockup. No published behaviour |
| Published latency figure | Median 1471 ms, 95th percentile 1986 ms, from 122 readings in us-central1 on 19 August 2026 | Not published |
| Published audio of the product | Four persona voice samples, labelled as scripted. No session recording | Not published. Both homepage demonstrations are hand built HTML with fixed strings |
| A written brief before the room opens | Yes, and the personas have read it on arrival | Not published. Their flow starts from a typed goal |
| Unit of account | One 45 minute session | Minutes per month |
| Real human sessions we have published | None. Zero real human sessions have taken place | Not applicable. They have shipped and we have not |
| Public API | Not at launch | Not published |
When to use each
Reach for AI Group Call
- You want a voice room on a phone, today.
- You want six voices rather than a smaller cast.
- You want to start from a typed goal rather than write a brief first.
- You are choosing on what has shipped rather than on what is published.
Reach for Tingvar
- You are at a desk with a written plan you want attacked.
- You want to know what each voice is optimising for, and what it is wrong about.
- You want the latency figure and the method behind it.
Questions about this comparison
How is Tingvar different from AI Group Call?
AI Group Call runs on iPhone and Android only, and Tingvar runs in a browser with nothing to install. Both are live voice products with more than one AI participant, which makes this the closest comparison in the category. AI Group Call meters by the minute, and Tingvar prices by the 45-minute session. Tingvar publishes a measured voice-to-voice latency figure with its method and its date. The full comparison, with the crawl date on every fact, is on the comparison page.
How we compare
Every claim about another product on this site is a fact that product publishes about itself, read from its own pages on the date below. Where a product publishes nothing on a point, the cell reads not published, because an absent published fact is not an absent capability. Our own weaknesses are in the same table, in the same column style.
Compared on 23 August 2026
Sources
| Claim | Read on their own pages at | Read on |
|---|---|---|
| No web client, and structured data listing Android and iOS as the operating systems | aigroupcall.app homepage and its own JSON-LD | 23 August 2026 |
| Six AI participants cast as a host, a sceptic, a strategist and others | aigroupcall.app homepage subhead | 23 August 2026 |
| Barge-in claimed in body copy beside a hand built mockup, with no audio published anywhere | aigroupcall.app homepage caption and a full read of all five pages | 23 August 2026 |
| Both homepage demonstrations are hand built HTML with fixed strings | The shipped markup of aigroupcall.app | 23 August 2026 |
| iOS version 1.0 released 22 August 2026 | Their App Store listing | 23 August 2026 |
| Pricing metered in minutes per month, with no purchase control in the pricing section | aigroupcall.app pricing section | 23 August 2026 |
| No public API, no MCP server and no browser extension | A full read of all five pages of aigroupcall.app | 23 August 2026 |
Right of reply
If you work at one of these companies and something here is wrong, email corrections@tingvar.com. We correct it within 1 business day and log the correction publicly.
Correction log
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Hear the difference for yourself
There is no migration offer here and no switching discount. Most people evaluating both should try both. Hear the four voices