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Skye
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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.The fastest AI inference in the world. Crazy low latency.Anthropic's CLI agent. Opus-powered, operates on your repo directly.AI project management with agents for each team.
CategoryAgentsDev PlatformCodingProductivity
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free tier + pay-as-you-go APIPart of Claude Pro/Max/Team plansFree + $8-$20/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 need sub-100ms LLM responses.Developers who want an agent, not autocomplete. Large refactors, tests, docs.Small teams wanting AI baked into project management.
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
  • 500+ tokens/sec on Llama/Mixtral — feels instant
  • Custom LPU hardware
  • Great free tier
  • Runs locally, edits your actual files
  • Strong on large codebases with 1M context
  • Great at multi-step tasks
  • Custom AI agents per project
  • Doc + tasks + kanban in one
  • Affordable for teams
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
  • Open-weight models only (no Claude/GPT)
  • Less flexibility on custom configs
  • Terminal-based — learning curve
  • Can't be used without Claude subscription
  • Feature sprawl
  • AI agents need tuning to be useful
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 speed. When latency is the product, start here.S-tier if you live in the terminal. Different shape than Cursor — complementary, not replacement.B-tier. Solid product but crowded market. Try it if Notion AI feels too generic.
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