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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.VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work.Mac launcher + AI. Command-bar genius.Spreadsheets with AI + live integrations baked in.
CategoryAgentsCodingProductivityData
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo BusinessFree (app) + $10/mo AIFree + $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. Non-developers who want to ship working code.Power users on Mac who type a lot.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
  • Tab completion feels like mind-reading
  • Composer for multi-file edits
  • Runs Claude, GPT, Gemini — you pick
  • Invoke AI from anywhere on Mac with a hotkey
  • Choose your model (Claude, GPT, etc.)
  • AI Commands for repeatable workflows
  • 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
  • Can feel overwhelming for non-coders
  • Expensive at scale
  • Mac-only
  • Monthly AI sub on top of free app
  • 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.)S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day.S-tier if you're on Mac. The fastest way to get AI answers without context-switching.A-tier. The most interesting spreadsheet in years. Great for ops dashboards.
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