Overview
- The Comet app is now live on Google Play, bringing Perplexity’s tab‑aware assistant, voice mode, smart summarization across open tabs, and an integrated ad blocker to mobile.
- Browsing history and bookmarks do not yet sync between mobile and desktop, with Perplexity saying cross‑device sync will roll out in the coming weeks and Android’s password manager supported in the interim.
- Perplexity prioritized Android after interest from carriers and OEMs, with an iOS version expected soon and no specific preload partnerships announced for the new browser.
- The Android release retains agentic capabilities such as researching or shopping on a user’s behalf, viewing the assistant’s “expanded reasoning,” and setting Perplexity as the default search engine.
- Coverage highlights competition with Chrome and notes privacy and security concerns, including Perplexity’s own acknowledgement of novel agent risks and analysis that the browser can feed data used for advertising.