Anthropic's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Claude, is heading to the iPhone. The company announced the release of its iOS app on Wednesday and said it is generally available worldwide. This is the first time that the AI assistant is leaving the web interface and getting a smartphone app. Additionally, it also announced a new Teams for Business subscription plan that will allow businesses to purchase Claude access for all staff. Notably, Anthropic released the Claude 3 AI models in March.
In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), Anthropic announced the release of the iOS app. The mobile app works in the same way as the web interface, and we found it to be quite optimized and easy to use. The iPhone app includes features such as seamless synchronization with web chats that allow you to pick up the conversation in the app after leaving it midway in the web interface.
Claude iOS app
Photo credit: Anthropic
The iPhone app also includes vision capabilities. With the user's permission, the app can access the iPhone's camera and photo library to provide real-time analysis of images. Users can click on an image of an object and ask the AI to identify it.
Although the app is free to download, it has the same restrictions as the platform's free web interface. You only have access to the Haiku or Sonnet AI models and there is a daily message limit that varies based on server load. In particular, there are three variants of Claude AI: Haiku, Sonnet and Opus. Haiku is the fastest but least intelligent, Sonnet is slower but most intelligent, and Opus does both.
If you don't want to hit the daily limit, you'll have to pay $20 (roughly Rs. 1,700) per month for the Pro membership. This opens up access to all three AI models, a larger number of chats, and priority access during high traffic periods. Alongside its iOS app, Anthropic has also introduced a new team plan for businesses, which businesses can purchase for their staff. The plan offers all of the Pro level, as well as a higher usage rate than Pro and access to its 200K popup mode, which is designed for processing long documents. The team plan is priced at $30 (roughly Rs. 2,500) per user per month with a minimum of five seats.
