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TaglineAn 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.Terminal-based AI pair programmer. Git-aware, model-flexible.Sales-focused meeting AI with CRM integration.Spreadsheets with AI + live integrations baked in.
CategoryAgentsCodingMeetingsData
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free (open source) + whatever API you useFree + $10-$19/user/moFree + $19-$89/user/mo
Best foriPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.Developers who want open-source tooling with full control.Sales teams, customer success, anyone running many discovery calls.Ops teams, marketers, anyone building dashboards from multiple sources.
Strengths
  • 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
  • Works in any terminal
  • Auto-commits changes with meaningful messages
  • Works with any model (Claude, GPT, local)
  • Minimal learning curve
  • Good CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot)
  • Talk-time + sentiment analytics
  • Call scoring
  • Pull live data from Stripe, Slack, Google Analytics, etc.
  • AI functions inside cells
  • Modern UX
Weaknesses
  • 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-only
  • Less agentic than Claude Code
  • Setup on Windows is fiddly
  • Bot-joins (intrusive)
  • Gets expensive at team scale
  • Not a full Excel replacement for heavy users
  • Integrations best on paid tiers
Kai's verdictThe 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 right answer if you want open-source + terminal-native + model-agnostic.A-tier for sales teams. B-tier for solo users.A-tier. The most interesting spreadsheet in years. Great for ops dashboards.
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