Compare AI tools

	Cursor S	Perplexity S	Skye A	Adobe Firefly A
Tagline	VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work.	AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.	An agentic iPhone home screen that replaces your static icon grid with AI widgets that proactively surface health, calendar, finance, and local context — without you having to open a single app.	Commercially safe image gen, deeply integrated with Photoshop.
Category	Coding	Research	Agents	Image
Pricing	Free + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo Business	Free + $20/mo Pro	Waitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)	Free + included with Creative Cloud
Best for	Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code.	Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.	iPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.	Anyone in Creative Cloud. Brands that need copyright clarity.
Strengths	Tab completion feels like mind-reading Composer for multi-file edits Runs Claude, GPT, Gemini — you pick	Sources every claim Fast, current answers Pro Search runs multi-step research Spaces for persistent context	Ambient, proactive intelligence delivered via native iOS widgets — no app-switching required Cross-domain context: health, calendar, email, finances, and local recommendations in one layer Works within iOS permission model (no jailbreak or sideloading), making App Store approval plausible Strong pre-launch signal: 25k+ waitlist and backing from a16z, True Ventures, and SV Angel	Trained on licensed content — commercially safe Generative Fill in Photoshop is incredible Native to Adobe ecosystem
Weaknesses	Can feel overwhelming for non-coders Expensive at scale	Not a general chatbot Answers can be shallow on complex topics	Still pre-launch / beta — zero proven track record and no public pricing yet iPhone-only by design, which immediately locks out half the smartphone market Battery drain and privacy concerns from constant ambient context scanning are real and unresolved	Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney Tied to Adobe subscription
Kai's verdict	S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day.	S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.	The concept is genuinely compelling — turning the home screen into a living AI layer is a smarter bet than yet another chat interface — but this is vaporware until it ships publicly and we see whether Apple's sandbox lets it breathe. (Verdict pending Phi's full review.)	S-tier inside Photoshop (Generative Fill). B-tier standalone.
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