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
About Perplexity Assistant on Product Hunt
“Assistant for Android with smarter AI for tasks and context!”
Perplexity Assistant launched on Product Hunt on January 24th, 2025 and earned 305 upvotes and 22 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
Perplexity Assistant was featured in Android (57.1k followers), Productivity (649.7k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (466.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 252.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Perplexity Assistant ?
Perplexity Assistant was hunted by Rohan Chaubey. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Reviews
Perplexity Assistant has received 90 reviews on Product Hunt with an average rating of 5.00/5. Read all reviews on Product Hunt.
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