Perplexity Now Has A Mobile Assistant On Android

Perplexity has turned its AI “answer engine” into a mobile adjunct connected Android. The caller adjunct tin reply wide questions and execute tasks connected your behalf, specified arsenic penning an email, mounting a reminder, booking dinners, and more.

It’s too multimodal, meaning you tin inquire it questions astir what’s connected your aboveground arsenic bully arsenic personification it unfastened your camera and “see” what’s successful beforehand of you. In an illustration shared by Perplexity, a personification asks nan adjunct to “get maine a ride.” Once it learns wherever nan personification wants to go, nan adjunct automatically opens Uber pinch disposable rides to that destination.

I tried it retired for myself, and it is benignant of neat. When I asked it to “open up a bully podcast,” my telephone started playing nan latest conception of The Joe Rogan Experience connected YouTube. It worked alternatively quickly, moreover though its sensation whitethorn beryllium questionable.

Using my phone’s camera, Perplexity’s adjunct successfully identified nan promotional Pokémon battalion I sewage successful a McDonald’s Happy Meal (don’t judge), which I recovered awesome since nan promotion only started a mates of days ago. It too helped maine represent and nonstop a matter to a family unit utilizing nan accusation successful my contacts.

Alongside Samsung’s announcement of nan Gemini-equipped Galaxy S25, Google revealed that its AI adjunct tin now complete tasks crossed aggregate apps, arsenic bully arsenic complete multimodal requests.

But Perplexity’s adjunct doesn’t activity crossed each app and pinch each feature. It’s not tin to entree Slack aliases Reddit, for example, and I too couldn’t usage it to clip disconnected a remark connected a YouTube video. Right now, nan adjunct supports Spotify, YouTube, and Uber, connected pinch email, messaging, and timepiece apps, according to Perplexity spokesperson Sara Platick. “We’re continuing to adhd support for overmuch apps and overmuch functionality though, truthful this is conscionable nan starting point,” Platnick adds.

You tin alteration nan adjunct done nan Perplexity app, which prompts you to move your phone’s default adjunct pinch Perplexity. From there, you tin swipe up connected nan adjacent area of your aboveground aliases clasp down your location fastener to entree nan assistant.

It’s presently not disposable connected nan iPhone, however. “If Apple gives america nan correct permissions, we’ll make it happen,” Platnick says.