Perplexity Launches Comet AI Browser for iPhone With Built-In Assistant

[MacRumors]

Perplexity today expanded its Comet browser to iOS, making its AI Comet Assistant available to iPhone users.

The Comet browser for iOS has many of the same features as the Comet browser for the desktop, including a voice mode for speaking questions and a hybrid search experience, but it does lack extensions. Comet offers standard search results like you might expect from any web search, but the added Comet Assistant is able to provide more in-depth answers and complete tasks.

Comet supports Perplexity's Deep Research feature that's able to ingest information from multiple web sources and provide quick, useful summaries. The Comet Assistant can also complete web-based tasks, like summarizing emails, searching for products, comparing prices across websites, and more.

With the new iOS app, Comet works across different devices, so users can start a search on one device and pick it up on another.

Perplexity does collect browsing and search history from Comet to create ad-targeting profiles to serve ads to users. Comet was priced at $200 per month when it first launched last year, but it is available on iOS for free. Pro and Max subscription plans are available starting at $20 per month.

Comet for iOS can be downloaded from the App Store as of today. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Perplexity Launches Comet AI Browser for iPhone With Built-In Assistant

 

[hieranonymous]

So it rewards the user for handing over all their browsing activity to advertisers by bombarding the user with AI slop? That’s hella dystopian.

 

[HiVolt]

No thanks. The more something promotes AI - the more I'm turned off by it and will not use it.

I'm so god damn sick of it.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Maybe the next time Halley's Comet comes around I'll be interested.

That is coming up in 2061.

💫

 

[teaneedz]

so the browser app has an ad blocking feature but collects history and searches to serve ads? sounds like a mob protection racket.

 

[chrisf60647]

so the browser app has an ad blocking feature but collects history and searches to serve ads? sounds like a mob protection racket.

Well put and they want to charge money for it to boot.

 

[Astuces iOS]

I’m pretty sure that no one cares and this article is made to be send to a friend as a joke !

 

[philpalmiero]

Quit pushing AI. I don't want it everywhere and in everything.

 

[jdawgnoonan]

I personally like perplexity.

 

[Octavius8]

Pay to don’t see the ads based on collecting my information?.
Mmmhhh, clever.
Brave or Edge are pretty good for me.

 

[applicious84]

I was interested and downloaded for the desktop. Free use is incredibly limited, and it aggressively tries to make itself the default. It was actually interesting the first few minutes that I could use it, but it's a weak trial period

Interestingly, the desktop version insists it has an ad blocker built in

 

[indefinite]

Flash news: It sucks.

It does not have half of the features and customizations that Safari has, and the UI lacks in usability.

 

[CalMin]

I know there's a lot of negativity here but ChatGPT's Atlas browser is not perfect - actually far from it, BUT... it's really useful to have an AI sidekick in a browser. For me it just means a lot less copy & paste into the AI chat window because it can read what's on the page. It's also been really handy to let it control the browser and find stuff right on the page.

I'm all in on AI, so there is that. I hope Apple gets it right one of these days because I don't really trust the other companies to keep my stuff private so there are corners of my life that it is nowhere near. If we had really great Apple intelligence, they would have all my AI business!

 

[svish]

Will try this out but don't think I will switch browsers. Very happy with Safari.

 

[HaHaRich!]

Damn, from the headline I was really hoping it was an app that took telescope images of comets, AI enhanced them for your browsing pleasure. Who needs another web browser? What is this, the 1990s all over again? No thanks. Keep this and Crystal Pepsi

 

[JosephAW]

Requires iOS 18 or higher. Why? 🙄 📱

 

[Bustycat]

Meanwhile Perplexity is accelerating ******tification for Pro subscribers.

 

[wikiverse]

So it rewards the user for handing over all their browsing activity to advertisers by bombarding the user with AI slop? That’s hella dystopian.

Yea. I much prefer handing over all of my browsing activity to advertisers in Chrome in exchange for nothing.

 

[artifex]

Meanwhile Perplexity is accelerating ******tification for Pro subscribers.

Nobody's yet turning a net profit from AI, and pro customers can cause them to lose even more money than the free users do. But I'm sure they'd do it anyway, just because they could.

 

[ClaraStahlbaum]

I am so sick and tired of AI being pushed into everything. I miss the era of the internet before AI slop was everywhere.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Another AI company shows why it doesn’t matter that Siri sucks as they ensure their latest product works well with Apple devices.

 

[Jumpthesnark]

Pro and Max subscription plans are available starting at $20 per month.

I'm not gonna subscribe to get a browser, thx.

 

[Rockin Robin]

I have used it for half a day as default but the first blocked ad sent it into a spin. Back with Safari with Edge on the rare occasion…

 

[Gadget Gadget Gadget]

Meanwhile Perplexity is accelerating ******tification for Pro subscribers.

How so please?

 

[RadMac]

Does average Joe use this Perplexity product? I only see it used by paid YouTubers and bloggers/vloggers? Am I missing something?