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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.Chinese open-weight powerhouse. Crazy cheap, genuinely smart.Autonomous AI agent that actually finishes tasks.Run any open-source AI model with an API call.
CategoryAgentsChatbotsAgentsDev Platform
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free web + ultra-cheap API (~$0.14/M input tokens)Free tier + $39-$199/moPay per second of compute
Best foriPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.Developers + cost-conscious builders. Anyone fine with self-hosting.People who want to hand off tasks entirely — trip planning, research, spreadsheet building.Developers using open-source models (Flux, SDXL, Whisper, etc).
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
  • Open weights you can self-host
  • Strong reasoning + math
  • Near-free API pricing
  • DeepSeek-V3 / R1 are serious models
  • General-purpose agent — research, book, build, analyze
  • Parallel task execution
  • Web browsing + file creation + coding
  • Tens of thousands of models (image, video, audio, LLMs)
  • One-line API for any model
  • Cog framework for custom model deploy
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
  • Data goes to servers in China — privacy concerns for business use
  • Chinese policy filters
  • English polish trails Western models
  • Still hit-or-miss on complex multi-hour tasks
  • Can burn credits fast
  • Cold starts on less-popular models
  • Pricing gets real at scale
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 price/performance. A-tier for consumer use. If you build apps, this is the budget pick.S-tier in the agent category. The first one I'd give to a non-technical friend.S-tier for open-source model APIs. The default in this space.
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