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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.Run LLMs locally. One-line install, GUI optional.AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.AI writing tool built specifically for fiction writers.
CategoryAgentsDev PlatformResearchWriting
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free + open sourceFree + $20/mo Pro$19-$59/mo
Best foriPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.Devs wanting offline/local LLMs for privacy or experimentation.Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.Novelists, screenwriters, fiction short-form writers.
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
  • Run Llama, Mistral, Qwen, etc. on your laptop
  • Simple CLI + API
  • Hardware-aware (picks the right quant)
  • Sources every claim
  • Fast, current answers
  • Pro Search runs multi-step research
  • Spaces for persistent context
  • Brainstorm, expand, rewrite modes designed for fiction
  • Story Bible for character + plot tracking
  • Understands voice + tone better than generic chatbots
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
  • Needs beefy laptop for larger models
  • Speed way behind cloud APIs
  • Not a general chatbot
  • Answers can be shallow on complex topics
  • Pricey for casual use
  • Fiction-only focus — not for business writing
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 local inference. If you care about privacy or want to tinker, install this today.S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.S-tier for fiction. If you're writing a novel, this beats raw ChatGPT every time.
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