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Skye
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Replicate
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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.AI slide decks that don't look AI-generated.
CategoryAgentsDev PlatformDev PlatformProductivity
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Pay per second of computeFree + open sourceFree + $10-$20/mo
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.Pitch decks, proposals, internal presentations — fast.
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)
  • Strong templates
  • Decks, docs, webpages
  • Doesn't look generic
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
  • Locked into Gamma's format
  • Export quality varies
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 of a boring category. Use it for first drafts, then edit in Keynote if high-stakes.
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