Evenfall vs Perplexity

Perplexity is a genuinely excellent search product, and it always shows its sources. Its privacy posture is the weak side. On consumer plans (Free, Pro, Max), your searches are collected and used for AI training by default — the "AI Data Retention" setting ships on, and it's on you to find and disable it. Retention windows for ordinary search data aren't clearly specified in its policy; the clearest commitment is that deleted accounts purge within about 30 days.

Then there's the litigation. A class action filed March 31, 2026 in San Francisco federal court alleges Perplexity embedded Meta and Google ad-tech trackers that shared users' prompts and responses — allegedly including in its "Incognito" mode — with the platforms for ad targeting. Those are allegations, not court findings, and Perplexity contests them; but if privacy is why you're choosing a tool, the complaint describes exactly the failure mode you're trying to avoid. Enterprise plans are carved out from training, which tells you the capability to not-train exists — it's a consumer-plan default, not a technical necessity.

Evenfall is built on the opposite defaults: no training on your conversations ever, no ads and no ad-tech (there is no advertising business to feed), no behavioural tracking, and hard deletion — deleting a conversation removes the database row, with no soft-delete or recovery window. You can sign in with a one-time email code and pay with an anonymous crypto pass, so the account itself needn't carry your name.

Feature-for-feature on search, Perplexity wins where search is the whole job. Every answer is search-backed with citations; Pro Search runs multi-step research; Deep Research and Labs produce long, cited reports; paid tiers pick between many frontier models; and the free tier is generous. If your day is research — sourcing claims, comparing many documents, monitoring topics — Perplexity is the stronger tool, provided you flip the training opt-out.

Evenfall approaches from the other side: it's a private chat app that reaches for the web when your question needs it. On paid plans, automatic web search detects fresh-info questions, searches, and answers with a "Searched the web" line and its sources — no mode to remember. Around that sits everything a daily-driver chat needs that a search engine doesn't offer: per-conversation instructions, saved assistants, folders and synced history with real deletion, and an incognito mode whose conversations are never written to a database at all.

Be clear about the gaps: Evenfall has one model (not a roster), no long-report research mode, no video generation, no native mobile apps, and no public API yet. If those matter, Perplexity — or ChatGPT — serves you better. If what you want is to ask the web things without building a search history that's attached to you, that's the exact niche Evenfall occupies. More context in our guide to uncensored AI search.