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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.Open weights + strong photorealism. The open-source answer.Spreadsheets with AI + live integrations baked in.Run LLMs locally. One-line install, GUI optional.
CategoryAgentsImageDataDev Platform
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)API + open weights (Schnell is Apache 2.0)Free + $19-$89/user/moFree + open source
Best foriPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.Developers + power users who want control and privacy.Ops teams, marketers, anyone building dashboards from multiple sources.Devs wanting offline/local LLMs for privacy or experimentation.
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
  • Runs locally on a beefy GPU
  • Very photoreal
  • Best open-weight model
  • Pull live data from Stripe, Slack, Google Analytics, etc.
  • AI functions inside cells
  • Modern UX
  • Run Llama, Mistral, Qwen, etc. on your laptop
  • Simple CLI + API
  • Hardware-aware (picks the right quant)
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
  • Harder to use than hosted tools
  • Needs infra
  • Not a full Excel replacement for heavy users
  • Integrations best on paid tiers
  • Needs beefy laptop for larger models
  • Speed way behind cloud APIs
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. S-tier if you self-host. The reason open-source image gen matters.A-tier. The most interesting spreadsheet in years. Great for ops dashboards.S-tier for local inference. If you care about privacy or want to tinker, install this today.
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