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TaglineAI 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.Anthropic's CLI agent. Opus-powered, operates on your repo directly.Run LLMs locally. One-line install, GUI optional.
CategoryResearchAgentsCodingDev Platform
PricingFree + $20/mo ProWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Part of Claude Pro/Max/Team plansFree + open source
Best forReplacing 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.Developers who want an agent, not autocomplete. Large refactors, tests, docs.Devs wanting offline/local LLMs for privacy or experimentation.
Strengths
  • 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
  • Runs locally, edits your actual files
  • Strong on large codebases with 1M context
  • Great at multi-step tasks
  • Run Llama, Mistral, Qwen, etc. on your laptop
  • Simple CLI + API
  • Hardware-aware (picks the right quant)
Weaknesses
  • 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
  • Terminal-based — learning curve
  • Can't be used without Claude subscription
  • Needs beefy laptop for larger models
  • Speed way behind cloud APIs
Kai's verdictS-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 if you live in the terminal. Different shape than Cursor — complementary, not replacement.S-tier for local inference. If you care about privacy or want to tinker, install this today.
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