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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.AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.Anthropic's CLI agent. Opus-powered, operates on your repo directly.The one that actually gets text in images right.
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PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free + $20/mo ProPart of Claude Pro/Max/Team plansFree + $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.Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.Developers who want an agent, not autocomplete. Large refactors, tests, docs.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
  • Sources every claim
  • Fast, current answers
  • Pro Search runs multi-step research
  • Spaces for persistent context
  • Runs locally, edits your actual files
  • Strong on large codebases with 1M context
  • Great at multi-step tasks
  • 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
  • Not a general chatbot
  • Answers can be shallow on complex topics
  • Terminal-based — learning curve
  • Can't be used without Claude subscription
  • 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 for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.S-tier if you live in the terminal. Different shape than Cursor — complementary, not replacement.S-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art.
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