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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.Autonomous AI agent that actually finishes tasks.Google's answer. Best integrated with Workspace + free for a lot.The one that actually gets text in images right.
CategoryAgentsAgentsChatbotsImage
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free tier + $39-$199/moFree + $20/mo Advanced (bundled with 2TB Drive)Free + $8/mo + $20/mo + $60/mo
Best foriPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.People who want to hand off tasks entirely — trip planning, research, spreadsheet building.Anyone already on Google, research tasks, summarizing long documents.Anything with text — posters, ads, album covers, slide decks.
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
  • General-purpose agent — research, book, build, analyze
  • Parallel task execution
  • Web browsing + file creation + coding
  • Native Google Workspace integration
  • Very long context (1M+)
  • Deep Research feature
  • Free tier is generous
  • Best text rendering in the game
  • Strong free tier
  • Good for logos, posters, thumbnails
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
  • Still hit-or-miss on complex multi-hour tasks
  • Can burn credits fast
  • Writing quality trails Claude
  • Over-refusals on edge content
  • UI is cluttered
  • Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney
  • Less style variety
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 in the agent category. The first one I'd give to a non-technical friend.A-tier. The Deep Research feature is genuinely useful. Don't sleep on it if you're already paying Google.S-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art.
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