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Skye
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Ollama
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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 any open-source AI model with an API call.Run LLMs locally. One-line install, GUI optional.Open-source VS Code agent. Reads + writes + runs.
CategoryAgentsDev PlatformDev PlatformCoding
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Pay per second of computeFree + open sourceFree (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.Developers using open-source models (Flux, SDXL, Whisper, etc).Devs wanting offline/local LLMs for privacy or experimentation.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
  • Tens of thousands of models (image, video, audio, LLMs)
  • One-line API for any model
  • Cog framework for custom model deploy
  • Run Llama, Mistral, Qwen, etc. on your laptop
  • Simple CLI + API
  • Hardware-aware (picks the right quant)
  • 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
  • Cold starts on less-popular models
  • Pricing gets real at scale
  • Needs beefy laptop for larger models
  • Speed way behind cloud APIs
  • 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 open-source model APIs. The default in this space.S-tier for local inference. If you care about privacy or want to tinker, install this today.A-tier. Best free agentic option in VS Code. Use with Claude for best results.
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