Your personal AI agent. On your iPhone. On your server.
Kip is a native iOS app for a personal AI agent that runs on hardware you own. Real streaming, durable runs, voice, widgets, and on-device Apple Intelligence — with your keys and your data staying home.
Interactive demo
Watch a run, then drive it yourself
Tap a prompt, switch model lanes, and watch a run stream in — the same rhythm as the real app.
Kip
Everyday lane · balanced default · models from your server
Simulated demo — a scripted transcript, not a live model.
What ships today
A real agent surface, not a chat wrapper
Everything below is in the app right now — verified against the code, not the wishlist.
Durable runs
Streams keep going when you background the app or your connection drops. Kip recovers the run, and a watchdog catches hangs.
Model lanes
Quick, Everyday, Deep, Best, Code — human-friendly lanes over whatever models your server exposes. Provider-agnostic by design.
Voice
Dictation, push-to-talk, and background read-aloud, with an on-device voice as the fallback when your server can't speak.
Vision & OCR
OCR capture, receipt extraction, live document scan, and image redaction — point the camera at a page and Kip reads it.
Widgets & Live Activities
7 Home Screen widgets, 2 Live Activities with Dynamic Island support, and 6 Control Center and Lock Screen controls.
On-device Apple Intelligence
Session titles, memory extraction, briefings, and offline drafts run on Apple's FoundationModels — private, no API cost, degrades gracefully.
Kip Doctor
Built-in health checks that diagnose your server connection and walk through repairs when something's off.
Share, Siri & Spotlight
Share into Kip from any app, ask via Siri and App Intents, find sessions in Spotlight, and hand off between devices.
How it works
Your iPhone. Your server. Nothing in between.
Kip is the native client; Kai Core is the agent server you run on hardware you own.
Kip on your iPhone
Native iOS app
Encrypted tunnelTailscale or your own network
Your server — Kai Core
Your models · your keys · your data
Run the server
Set up Kai Core on a Mac, a Linux box, or Windows via Docker — with your own provider keys.
Pair with a QR
Scan a QR code from your server and the app connects over your own network or Tailscale.
Talk to Kip anywhere
Chat, dictate, or share into Kip from any app. Runs stay durable even when you lock your phone.
Why a native app
Some things only a real iOS app can do
A web view can't sit on your Home Screen, show a Live Activity, or keep thinking when the screen locks. Kip can.
Home Screen widgets and Live Activities that show run status at a glance
Siri and App Intents, Spotlight search, Handoff, and a share extension
On-device Apple Intelligence that keeps working offline, privately, at no API cost
Durable runs that survive backgrounding, lock screens, and flaky connections
What's next
Honest about what isn't built yet
These aren't in the app today. They're what's being worked toward.
Claude Code & Codex delegation
Hand long coding tasks to dedicated coding agents from your phone.
Public TestFlight beta
Today the beta is invite-only. A public TestFlight link is in the works.
Managed hosting
Self-hosting is the only option right now; a managed path is being explored.
Private beta
Get Kip
One link for the app and the server quickstart — or join the waitlist and we'll ping you when a spot opens.