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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.Codeium's agentic IDE. Cascade agent + strong free tier.AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.Run any open-source AI model with an API call.
CategoryAgentsCodingResearchDev Platform
PricingWaitlist / Beta (pricing not yet disclosed)Free + $15/mo ProFree + $20/mo ProPay per second of compute
Best foriPhone power users who are frustrated that Siri is still reactive and want their home screen to actually anticipate their day.Developers who want Cursor-like power for less money.Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.Developers using open-source models (Flux, SDXL, Whisper, etc).
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
  • Cheaper than Cursor
  • Cascade agent for multi-file tasks
  • Solid free tier
  • Sources every claim
  • Fast, current answers
  • Pro Search runs multi-step research
  • Spaces for persistent context
  • Tens of thousands of models (image, video, audio, LLMs)
  • One-line API for any model
  • Cog framework for custom model deploy
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
  • Smaller community
  • Model selection more limited
  • Not a general chatbot
  • Answers can be shallow on complex topics
  • Cold starts on less-popular models
  • Pricing gets real at scale
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.)A-tier. Close second to Cursor. If $5/mo matters, start here.S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.S-tier for open-source model APIs. The default in this space.
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