

Pros
- It Produces Artefacts, Not Conversation: Credits fund finished slide decks, documents, spreadsheets, podcasts, images and video, with deep research, AI editing and scheduled tasks deployable from instant messaging as well as the app.
- A Free Tier You Can Work In: 120 login credits a day, one project, ten downloads a month and two simultaneous devices at no cost, with a signed-out trial card advertising 800 daily credits and access to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini models.
- Tiers That Differ on More Than Volume: Basic adds 15,000 monthly credits, three devices and a 50GB knowledge base; Plus adds 28,000 credits, four devices, a 1TB knowledge base, parallel multi-agent workflows, a Cloud PC and the choice of which underlying model runs your task.
Cons
- The company's terms state plainly that, unless the law requires otherwise, Skywork does not provide direct refunds for subscriptions — refund requests go to Apple, Google or the payment processor instead, so treat a subscription here as non-refundable and start on the free tier.
- Web pricing is behind the login, so the figures you can check without an account are App Store ones — Basic around $19.99 to $24.99 a month and Plus $49.99 — and subscriptions auto-renew at the then-current price, with app-store cancellations needing 24 hours' notice before the renewal date.
The Verdict
What sets Skywork apart is that it hands back a finished artefact instead of a conversation: The output is the point. Credits fund slide decks, documents, spreadsheets, podcasts, images and video, with AI deep research, editing and thinking layered on top and tasks deployable through instant messaging or on a schedule rather than only from the app. The free tier is usable rather than ornamental — 120 login credits a day, one project, ten downloads a month and two simultaneous devices — and the signed-out trial card advertises 800 daily credits with access to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini models. Paid tiers differ on capability, not just volume: Basic adds 15,000 monthly credits, three devices, two projects and a 50GB knowledge base; Plus adds 28,000 credits, four devices, three projects, a 1TB knowledge base, parallel multi-agent workflows, a Cloud PC, enhanced multimodal reasoning and the ability to choose which model runs a task. Two structural things make this harder to evaluate than it should be, and both belong in the open. First, pricing is not publicly visible: the pricing page resolves to a login wall, so the only figures checkable without an account are App Store in-app purchases — Basic at roughly $19.99 to $24.99 a month, Plus at $49.99, and credit packs at $19.99 for 10,000 and $34.99 for 15,000. Second, the company does not publish a per-task credit cost, stating instead that usage varies by feature, model and task, so the monthly allowance cannot be translated into a number of decks in advance. The refund position is the part to be unambiguous about. Skywork's terms state that, unless applicable law requires otherwise, it does not provide direct refunds for subscription services, and that refund requests must go to Apple, Google or the payment processor. Subscriptions auto-renew at the then-current price, a free trial converts automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before it expires, and cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Its Trustpilot record is weak and dominated by billing complaints, and the combination of login-gated pricing, no published refund window and automatic trial conversion is the reason to work inside the free tier first and only subscribe once you know what your own workload costs in credits. Separately, the Skywork Note hardware is treated differently and does carry a 30-day no-reason return.
An AI Workspace That Outputs Finished Work
Skywork AI describes itself as an AI workspace agent platform, operated by SKYWORK AI PTE. LTD. of Singapore. Rather than a chat interface, it is built around producing finished artefacts: slide decks, documents, spreadsheets, podcasts, images and video, supported by AI deep research, AI editing and AI thinking, with tasks deployable through instant messaging integrations and on a schedule. It runs as a web app, a downloadable desktop client and native mobile apps — iOS 15.0 or later, macOS 12.0 or later on Apple silicon, visionOS 1.0 or later, and Android through Google Play — with an age rating of 13 plus and support for English and eleven other languages. The company also sells a hardware product, the Skywork Note AI voice recorder. No registered business address is published on the site.
The published tier structure runs Free, Basic and Plus. Free costs nothing and provides no membership credits but a 120-credit daily login bonus, one project, ten downloads a month, a 10MB maximum file size and two simultaneous devices. Basic adds 15,000 membership credits a month, three simultaneous devices, two projects, unlimited downloads, a 50MB file cap, a 50GB knowledge base, enhanced AI search, AI editing, AI deep thinking, scheduled tasks and mobile instant-messaging workflows. Plus adds 28,000 credits a month, four devices, three projects, a 1TB knowledge base, an exclusive AI assistant, parallel multi-agent workflows, a Cloud PC, enhanced multimodal reasoning, a long-context super agent, early beta access and priority model choice across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and Kimi. Credits fund generation and processing, and the company states explicitly that the number used varies by feature, model and task, so no fixed per-deliverable cost is published; it also notes that having more credits does not by itself unlock a Plus-only feature.
Pricing is not publicly viewable on the web: both the pricing and plan pages resolve into a login wall, and figures appear only on the in-product upgrade screen after sign-in. The checkable public figures come from the Apple App Store listing, where in-app purchases include Basic monthly at $19.99, $23.90 and $24.99 in concurrent variants, Premium at $16.99, Plus monthly at $49.99, and credit packs at $19.99 for 10,000 credits and $34.99 for 15,000. On the company's own Shopify store, the Skywork Note voice recorder is $158.00 reduced from $189.00, with hardware-plus-annual-membership bundles at $282.90 for Basic and $509.90 for Plus — and an important condition attached: buying an annual plan with the device does not activate the membership at purchase, the one-year term begins only when the hardware is bound and activated.
The billing terms deserve close reading. The terms of service state that a subscription automatically renews for successive monthly or annual periods unless cancelled, that renewals are billed at the then-current price plus tax, and that price-change notice is given to the extent required by applicable law. Cancellation runs through the Skywork account dashboard, the store where the subscription was bought, or by email to support, and takes effect at the end of the current billing period; App Store and Google Play subscriptions should be cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. A free trial converts automatically into a paid subscription unless cancelled at least 24 hours before it expires, and buying a paid plan during a trial forfeits the remainder of the trial. On refunds the terms are explicit: unless applicable law requires otherwise, Skywork does not provide direct refunds for subscription-based services, and requests must be handled by the relevant payment platform — Apple, Google or the processor. No refund window in days is published for software. The Skywork Note hardware is the exception, carrying a 30-day no-reason return with full refund from receipt. On independent record, Skywork's Trustpilot rating sits at the bottom of the scale and the review base is dominated by billing complaints — unexpected annual charges and difficulty cancelling — which, taken with login-gated pricing and no published software refund window, is the case for starting on the free tier.
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