Perplexity made Comet, its AI browser and assistant, available on iOS via the App Store for devices running iOS 18 or later, the company said on 18 March 2026.
The app combines browsing with Comet Assistant for answers, voice questions across open tabs, Deep Research, summaries and web actions such as booking or filling forms. Third-party browser extensions are not supported on iOS. Comet on iOS brings the same agentic browsing model as desktop: ask in natural language, keep context across tabs, and hand off multi-step web chores to the assistant. Perplexity made Comet, its AI browser and assistant, available on iOS via the App Store for devices running iOS 18 or later. The app combines browsing with Comet Assistant for answers, voice questions across open tabs, Deep Research, summaries and web actions such as booking or filling forms. Comet on iOS brings the same agentic browsing model as desktop: ask in natural language, keep context across tabs, and hand off multi-step web chores to the assistant.
Comet on iOS brings the same agentic browsing model as desktop: ask in natural language, keep context across tabs, and hand off multi-step web chores to the assistant. Perplexity positioned the launch as extending Comet beyond desktop so mobile users can research and act without juggling tabs.
For enterprise buyers, the useful next step is to map the claim to controls, data residency and measurable outcomes—and to ask for evidence on failure modes, oversight and auditability before treating the release as production-ready fact.