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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.Vector + raster AI for designers. Actually controls the output.AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.OpenAI's open-source daemon that turns your Linear board into an always-on coding agent factory — tickets go in, pull requests come out.
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PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free + $12-$48/moFree + $20/mo ProFree (open-source)
Best foriPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.Designers, brand teams, anyone needing vector output or tight style control.Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.Engineering teams already using Linear + OpenAI Codex who want to stop babysitting agent sessions and instead let the issue tracker drive autonomous coding at scale.
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
  • Exports SVG vectors — rare in AI image gen
  • Strong style control + consistency
  • Brand kit for consistent outputs
  • Sources every claim
  • Fast, current answers
  • Pro Search runs multi-step research
  • Spaces for persistent context
  • Fully autonomous ticket-to-PR pipeline: every open Linear issue gets its own isolated Codex agent without manual supervision
  • Fault-tolerant Elixir/OTP architecture automatically restarts crashed agents and manages hundreds of concurrent runs
  • WORKFLOW.md keeps all orchestration policy version-controlled inside the repo, so agent behavior is reproducible and reviewable like code
  • Proven internal results: OpenAI reported a 500% increase in landed PRs on some teams within three weeks
  • Open spec encourages community re-implementations in any language, not just Elixir
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
  • Less hyped than Midjourney
  • Learning curve for non-designers
  • Not a general chatbot
  • Answers can be shallow on complex topics
  • Currently only supports Linear as an issue tracker — GitHub Issues and Jira integrations are not yet official
  • Only OpenAI Codex is officially supported as the agent runtime; other model integrations are community-contributed and incomplete
  • Self-hosted, Elixir-dependent engineering preview with no built-in sandboxing — not suitable for untrusted or production environments out of the box
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 designers. The only one that takes vectors seriously.S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.Symphony is the most architecturally serious 'issue tracker as control plane' approach yet — 15K GitHub stars in weeks confirms the idea resonates — but it's still a rough, self-hosted engineering preview that demands Elixir chops and a Linear-only workflow. (Verdict pending Phi's full review.)
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