Perplexity launches Comet iPad app

Perplexity just made Comet feel like an actual iPad app. On April 28, the company rolled out a native iPad experience for its AI browser, with support for multiple windows and Split View on iPadOS. That sounds like a small UI update, but it fixes the exact thing that made Comet awkward on a tablet before — you could use it, but not in the multitasking-heavy way iPad people actually work. (9to5mac.com) ### What is Comet, exactly? Comet is Perplexity’s browser-plus-assistant product — basically a web browser with the company’s answer engine and agent features built into the browsing flow instead of sitting in a separate chat box. On iPhone, Perplexit(9to5mac.com)ready have open. The App Store listing describes it as an AI-powered browser and assistant, and Apple lists it as working on both iPhone and iPad. (perplexity.ai) ### What changed on iPad? The big change is that Comet now behaves like a proper iPadOS citizen. Perplexity said the new iPad version works naturally with multiple windows and Split View, so you can keep Comet open next to notes, docs, email, or whatever else you’re using. That matters more on iPad than on phone b(perplexity.ai)side, write on the other. (9to5mac.com) ### Why is multi-window support such a big deal? Because an AI browser is most useful when it can stay in context while you do something else. If Comet is helping you summarize a paper, compare products, or pull information out of several tabs, you do(9to5mac.com)View lets Comet sit next to your main task instead of replacing it. That turns the app from “interesting demo” into “tool you might actually keep open all day.” (business-standard.com) ### Wasn’t Comet already on iPad? Technically, yes — but turns out “available on iPad” and “built for iPad” are not the same thing. The earlier iOS release put Comet on Apple mobile devices, but the new update is what m(business-standard.com) multitasking on iPad is missing the reason many people use an iPad in the first place. (perplexity.ai) ### Who is this really for? Students, researchers, and people who treat the iPad like a lightweight workstation. If your workflow is “read, extract, compare, paste, write,” Comet makes more sense on a tablet than on a phone. You can keep one Comet window gathering context, another on a different thread, and your n(perplexity.ai) is AI search on a bigger screen.” (msn.com) ### Why does this matter beyond one app? Because Perplexity is pushing the idea that the browser itself should be the AI product. Not a search box. Not a separate assistant. The browser. On desktop, that idea already makes intuitive sense. O(msn.com)live inside real workflows, not outside them. (perplexity.ai) ### What’s the bottom line? Comet on iPad is not just “now available.” It is now usable in the way an iPad browser needs to be usable. Perplexity did not invent multitasking here — Apple did — but by finally embracing multiple windows and Split View, Comet became much more believable as a serious research and browsing tool on the tablet. (9to5mac.com)