- Perplexity’s AI-Powered Comet Browser Now Available on Android
- The app includes voice chat, instant summaries, and built-in AI assistance while you browse.
- It is one of the first browsers designed from the ground up to be a mobile AI co-pilot.
The Perplexity Comet browser has officially launched on Android, marking one of the first full attempts to reinvent mobile browsers around AI assistants. Comet is positioning itself ahead of the almost inevitable release of a mobile Atlas version of ChatGPT, which is still limited to Mac, or Google’s likely rebuild of the mobile version of Chrome around Gemini.
The Comet Android edition, like the desktop version, lets you ask questions about what’s in your tabs, summarize everything you’re reading, and speak with voice mode to chat about what you’re looking for. It doesn’t have all the recent updates and improvements of the original Comet, and there’s still no history or bookmark sync between mobile and desktop. Still, it’s one of the most successful attempts to turn mobile browsing into a two-way conversation.
The voice interface is likely to be a main draw for potential users, as mobile browsers are most useful when your hands are full or you can’t type on the screen.
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The arrival of Comet to Android is important because we now live on phones. Most of us don’t browse from large screens or search for answers in full-size tabs. Switching between apps and scrolling on small screens is much more common. Comet tries to make it easier by skipping the tapping and typing routine and jumping straight to the answers.
This is not just a Chrome clone with an AI plugin. On the desktop, Comet has already attracted attention for its built-in assistant and summary tools. The mobile version brings that vision to your pocket, including ad blocking and on-the-fly analysis of everything you’re watching along with voice chat.
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It’s not that it’s perfect. Because Comet does more than just load pages, it can sometimes feel a little slower. And getting a summary of a long article or forum thread isn’t instantaneous. But, if you are okay with a slight delay, the results will definitely meet your requests.
After such a long period where it seemed like businesses needed a single app for every function, it’s notable that Perplexity is making its capabilities part of a browser, rather than leaving them in the hands of Chrome or Safari. Comet’s pitch is more about giving the browser an ever-present companion to distill and compare what you see with the rest of the Internet. And eventually, with agent tools, you could act on your behalf.
Comet’s appeal isn’t entirely different from what Microsoft’s Copilot and Google’s Gemini offer, not to mention standalone platforms like Brave and the Leo assistant built into the browser’s privacy DNA. However, Comet’s notion that AI is part of the default browsing experience remains unproven.
Some people will accept having an extra brain in their web sessions. Others might bristle at the idea of a browser interpreting what they’re reading. But making browsing more of a dialogue isn’t terrible if done right, especially when the web browsing experience feels degraded in recent years. The puzzle is betting that people are ready for something like Comet to give us answers that may seem too difficult to obtain when navigating alone.
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