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TaglineOpen weights + strong photorealism. The open-source answer.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.Spreadsheets with AI + live integrations baked in.
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PricingAPI + open weights (Schnell is Apache 2.0)Free + $20/mo ProWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free + $19-$89/user/mo
Best forDevelopers + power users who want control and privacy.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.Ops teams, marketers, anyone building dashboards from multiple sources.
Strengths
  • Runs locally on a beefy GPU
  • Very photoreal
  • Best open-weight model
  • 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
  • Pull live data from Stripe, Slack, Google Analytics, etc.
  • AI functions inside cells
  • Modern UX
Weaknesses
  • Harder to use than hosted tools
  • Needs infra
  • 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
  • Not a full Excel replacement for heavy users
  • Integrations best on paid tiers
Kai's verdictA-tier. S-tier if you self-host. The reason open-source image gen matters.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.)A-tier. The most interesting spreadsheet in years. Great for ops dashboards.
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