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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.Cognition Labs' autonomous coding engineer.Open-source VS Code agent. Reads + writes + runs.
CategoryAgentsResearchAgentsCoding
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free + $20/mo Pro$500/moFree (open source) + your API costs
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.Engineering teams offloading tickets. Ops/platform work.VS Code users who want agentic coding without changing IDEs.
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
  • Works like an engineer — takes Slack tasks, opens PRs
  • Handles multi-hour engineering work
  • Reports back with what it did
  • Free extension for VS Code
  • Plan + Act modes
  • Model-agnostic (Claude, GPT, local)
  • Sees terminal output and iterates
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
  • Expensive
  • Best for well-scoped tasks
  • Not for solo hobbyists
  • Can burn tokens fast if not watched
  • Less polished than Cursor
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.A-tier for the right use case. Not for solo devs. If you manage engineers, try one license.A-tier. Best free agentic option in VS Code. Use with Claude for best results.
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