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TaglineAutonomous AI agent that actually finishes tasks.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 search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work.
CategoryAgentsAgentsResearchCoding
PricingFree tier + $39-$199/moWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free + $20/mo ProFree + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo Business
Best forPeople who want to hand off tasks entirely — trip planning, research, spreadsheet building.iPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code.
Strengths
  • General-purpose agent — research, book, build, analyze
  • Parallel task execution
  • Web browsing + file creation + coding
  • 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
  • Sources every claim
  • Fast, current answers
  • Pro Search runs multi-step research
  • Spaces for persistent context
  • Tab completion feels like mind-reading
  • Composer for multi-file edits
  • Runs Claude, GPT, Gemini — you pick
Weaknesses
  • Still hit-or-miss on complex multi-hour tasks
  • Can burn credits fast
  • 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 general chatbot
  • Answers can be shallow on complex topics
  • Can feel overwhelming for non-coders
  • Expensive at scale
Kai's verdictS-tier in the agent category. The first one I'd give to a non-technical friend.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 search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day.
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