- Perplexity’s AI-powered Comet Browser is now available on Android
- The app includes voice chat, instant summaries, and built-in AI assistance while browsing
- It is one of the first browsers designed from the ground up to be a co-pilot for mobile AI.
The Perplexity Comet browser has officially launched on Android, marking one of the first full-fledged attempts to reinvent mobile browsers around AI assistants. Comet is positioning itself ahead of the almost inevitable release of a mobile version of the ChatGPT Atlas, still limited to the Mac, or the probable reconstruction by Google of the mobile version of Chrome around Gemini.
The Android edition of Comet, like the desktop version, lets you ask questions about the contents of your tabs, summarize everything you read, and speak in voice mode to discuss what you’re looking for. It doesn’t have all of the recent upgrades and improvements of the original Comet, and there’s no history or bookmarks syncing between mobile and desktop yet. Still, it’s one of the most fully realized attempts to turn mobile browsing into a two-way conversation.
The voice interface is likely to be a major attraction for potential users, as mobile browsers are most useful when your hands are full or unable to type on the screen.
Look on it
Comet’s arrival on Android is important because phones are where we live right now. Most of us don’t navigate on 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 this easier by skipping the typing and typing routine and going straight to the answers.
It’s not just a Chrome clone with an AI plugin. On desktop, Comet has already attracted attention for its built-in wizard and synthesis tools. The mobile version brings this vision to your pocket, including ad blocking and on-the-fly analysis of everything you watch to accompany voice chat.
Comet in motion
Not that it’s perfect. Because Comet does more than just load pages, it can sometimes seem a little slower. And getting the summary of a long article or forum thread isn’t instantaneous. But if you accept a slight delay, the results definitely meet demands.
After such a long period of businesses feeling like they needed a single app for every feature, it’s notable that Perplexity is bringing its features to a browser, instead of just leaving them to Chrome or Safari. Comet’s pitch is more about giving a browser an omnipresent companion to distill and compare what you see with the rest of the Internet. And possibly, thanks to agent tools, it could act on your behalf.
Comet’s appeal isn’t entirely different from what Microsoft’s Copilot and Google’s Gemini both offer, not to mention independent platforms like Brave and Leo Assistant built into the privacy-focused browser’s DNA. However, Comet’s notion of AI being part of the default browsing experience remains untested.
Some people will appreciate having an extra shotgun during their web sessions. Others might chafe at the idea of a browser interpreting what they read. But making browsing a dialogue isn’t great if it’s done well, especially when the web browsing experience seems degraded in recent years. The perplexity is betting that people are ready for something like Comet to give us answers that may seem like too much effort to obtain when navigating alone.
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