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TaglineAI-powered networked notes. Roam with a brain.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.Microsoft/GitHub's autocomplete. Deep VS Code + JetBrains integration.The fastest AI inference in the world. Crazy low latency.
CategoryProductivityAgentsCodingDev Platform
Pricing$10/moWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free (limited) + $10/mo Pro + $19/mo BusinessFree tier + pay-as-you-go API
Best forKnowledge workers + thinkers who want AI in their second brain.iPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.Teams with GitHub already. Devs who don't want to change IDEs.Developers who need sub-100ms LLM responses.
Strengths
  • AI auto-links related notes
  • Generates backlinks + summaries
  • Clean, minimal UX
  • 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
  • Great enterprise story
  • Works in your existing IDE
  • Chat + autocomplete
  • 500+ tokens/sec on Llama/Mixtral — feels instant
  • Custom LPU hardware
  • Great free tier
Weaknesses
  • Expensive for just notes
  • Smaller community than Obsidian
  • 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
  • Less agentic than Cursor/Claude Code
  • Model quality varies
  • Open-weight models only (no Claude/GPT)
  • Less flexibility on custom configs
Kai's verdictA-tier. Niche but beloved. If you've outgrown Notion, try this.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.)B-tier. Solid for autocomplete but the category moved past it. Pick Cursor unless you can't.S-tier for speed. When latency is the product, start here.
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