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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 project management with agents for each team.VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work.AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.
CategoryAgentsProductivityCodingResearch
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free + $8-$20/user/moFree + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo BusinessFree + $20/mo Pro
Best foriPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.Small teams wanting AI baked into project management.Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code.Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.
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
  • Custom AI agents per project
  • Doc + tasks + kanban in one
  • Affordable for teams
  • Tab completion feels like mind-reading
  • Composer for multi-file edits
  • Runs Claude, GPT, Gemini — you pick
  • Sources every claim
  • Fast, current answers
  • Pro Search runs multi-step research
  • Spaces for persistent context
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
  • Feature sprawl
  • AI agents need tuning to be useful
  • Can feel overwhelming for non-coders
  • Expensive at scale
  • Not a general chatbot
  • Answers can be shallow on complex topics
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.)B-tier. Solid product but crowded market. Try it if Notion AI feels too generic.S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day.S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.
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