Introducing Perplexity Assistant for Android! It uses reasoning, search, & apps to handle daily tasks ranging from simple questions to multi-app actions—booking dinner, finding songs, calling rides, setting reminders, and more—all with voice or gestures.
I’m thrilled to hunt Perplexity Assistant for Android to the Product Hunt community!
What it Does
- Combines reasoning, search, and apps to simplify daily tasks.
- Handles everything from answering simple questions to performing multi-app actions.
Key Features and Examples of Use
- Book dinner tables, find forgotten songs, call a ride, draft emails, and set reminders.
- Browses the web to find information and complete tasks (e.g., setting reminders for public events).
- Maintains context across actions (e.g., researching restaurants and booking a table).
- Multimodal functionality: Analyze visuals using the camera or screen.
- Summarize unread emails and upcoming calendar appointments.
- Translate Shakespeare or understand memes.
- Play songs/videos, get directions, or book an Uber with voice or gestures.
- Start conversations and seamlessly transition to actionable tasks like setting alerts or reservations.
Upcoming Features
- Enhanced Gmail and calendar access (expected within 3 weeks).
How to Install
- Free for all Android users
- Download or update the Perplexity app from the Play Store: http://pplx.ai/android
- Easily switch your default assistant from Google or Gemini to Perplexity
- You don’t have to be a paying user to set the Perplexity Assistant as your default
With this release Perplexity pushes the boundaries of default assistants on Android by offering more advanced and contextual capabilities than Google or Gemini. This will also make Android’s assistant ecosystem more open and competitive.
What use cases did you like? Share your thoughts in the comments. :)
Installing on my Android phone. I have heard lot of good things about Perplexity. I will be testing and using. Thanks to Rohan for hunting this product here on PH.
Exactly what Google Gemini should have been as the default digital assistant app but never was, great job! ❤️🔥
Okay, this is actually really cool—being able to handle stuff like booking dinner or calling a ride just by talking or using gestures? That sounds like such a time-saver, especially when you’re on the go. I can totally see this becoming one of those things you didn’t realize you needed until you have it
I've been finding Perplexity useful via the browser. Excited to try out this Android version, looks slick!
good perplexity, keep shiping and improving your product while deepseek destorys your competitors
Really cool. Huge opportunity here. Esp with running custom and more niche workflows.
I was today years old when I found out that this assistant is different from the perplexity ask anything app. Looking forward to the iphone version
