Perplexity releases Comet on iOS with voice mode and agentic browsing

Perplexity’s announcement is simple: Comet is now on iOS, with an App Store listing at the iPhone app page. The listing describes Comet as an “AI Browser & Assistant App,” requires iOS 18 or later, and positions it as a browser that can summarize pages, help with research, and automate routine tasks inside the browsing session.

The clearest new implementation detail comes from TestingCatalog’s post, which says the iOS build supports both voice mode and “agentic capacity.” A product screenshot in that post shows a “Plan with Comet” flow driven by spoken input, with the prompt “Which of these restaurants are vegetarian friendly?” over a live content card, indicating that voice is wired into task-oriented browsing rather than added as a separate chat surface.

A short iOS demo frames Comet as “a new default browser for iOS,” which is the most important UX shift here. For engineers tracking AI browser design, that means the assistant is no longer confined to a desktop tab model; it can sit in the normal mobile handoff path when links open from other apps.

The broader hands-on thread sketches the feature set Perplexity is trying to bring to that path: “chat with any webpage in real time,” “send agents to complete tasks,” and sync “bookmarks and passwords across devices.” That same post also claims users asked “6-18x more questions on day one,” but that usage figure is unattributed and should be read as a secondary claim rather than a confirmed product metric.