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TaglineVS Code fork that made AI coding actually work.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.AI avatar videos. Record once, speak any language.AI research assistant for academic literature.
CategoryCodingAgentsVideoResearch
PricingFree + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo BusinessWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free + $24-$65/moFree + $12-$42/mo
Best forDevelopers. Non-developers who want to ship working code.iPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.Course creators, multilingual marketers, anyone scaling video content.Grad students, researchers, anyone doing literature reviews.
Strengths
  • Tab completion feels like mind-reading
  • Composer for multi-file edits
  • Runs Claude, GPT, Gemini — you pick
  • 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
  • Clone your face + voice in 2 minutes
  • Instant translation into 40+ languages with lip sync
  • Avatars look less uncanny than competitors
  • Searches 125M+ papers
  • Extracts + synthesizes findings across papers
  • Systematic review workflow
Weaknesses
  • Can feel overwhelming for non-coders
  • Expensive at scale
  • 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
  • Pricey for serious volume
  • Long shots still feel off
  • Ethics — easy to misuse
  • Academic-only
  • Can hallucinate citations — verify everything
Kai's verdictS-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day.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 for multilingual video. If you sell courses or speak at events, this is a cheat code.S-tier for academic research. Nothing else comes close for systematic reviews.
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