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<p>Argus is your personal knowledge search engine. It indexes everything you create on your iPhone — photos, messages, calendar events, reminders, notes, contacts, voice notes, web bookmarks, workouts, sleep, and visit history — and makes it all searchable, askable, and actionable from a single search bar.</p>
<p>EVERYTHING ON-DEVICE BY DEFAULT<br />
Argus runs Apple Foundation Models on iOS 26 for AI features at no cost and no data leaving your phone. Want better answers? Bring your own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or any OpenAI-compatible API key. You decide which model handles text, vision, image generation, and voice — all separately.</p>
<p>POWERFUL SEARCH<br />
• Hybrid search blends keywords, semantic embeddings, and recency<br />
• Filter by source: photos, contacts, calendar, messages, notes, more<br />
• "Photos of food," "what did I do last weekend," "10 most recent emails" — natural language understood<br />
• Geek Mode for power users: 73 commands with pipes, macros, and workflows</p>
<p>CHAT & AGENT<br />
• Multi-turn conversations with personas, voice input, and spoken answers<br />
• Pin favorite exchanges, share as text or image, branch into alternate paths<br />
• Agent Mode lets the AI run commands on your data — search, summarize, create reminders, send messages — with your confirmation for anything destructive</p>
<p>PHOTOS & STORIES<br />
• AI Photo Studio: generate, edit, describe, enhance, OCR, remove backgrounds, watermark<br />
• Photo Stories turn 2-10 photos into a narrated journey<br />
• Manga Mode redraws your photos as manga panels with speech bubbles<br />
• Visual Intelligence (iPhone 16 Pro+) — point your camera at anything and search your data</p>
<p>HEALTH (NEW IN 2.0)<br />
• 8-chart dashboard: activity rings, sleep stages, HRV, resting HR, walking HR, VO2 max, steps, active energy, workouts<br />
• Workout routes plotted on Apple Maps with heart-rate zone breakdown<br />
• Mood Journal correlates sentiment with sleep and exercise<br />
• HealthKit data is read on-device only and never uploaded</p>
<p>INSIGHTS & MEMORY<br />
• Weekly/monthly Data Insights — charts of your activity by source and topic<br />
• Time Capsule surfaces "On This Day" memories every morning<br />
• Morning Brief notifications with today's calendar, weather, health rings, and a 1-line LLM narrative</p>
<p>POWER USER TOOLS<br />
• Custom keyboard extension with snippet expansion across every app<br />
• Quicklinks (parameterized URLs), workflows (multi-step macros), smart folders (saved searches)<br />
• Spotlight integration with interactive snippets — see top results without launching<br />
• Live Activities, widgets, AppIntents, Shortcuts, Action Button, Camera Control<br />
• iPad layout with NavigationSplitView, hardware keyboard support</p>
<p>PRIVACY-FIRST<br />
• All ingestion happens on-device<br />
• HealthKit, Photos, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Location — read locally, indexed locally<br />
• Cloud AI is opt-in with explicit consent and BYOK<br />
• Full data export (Markdown / JSON / CSV) anytime<br />
• Tap-once delete from any item</p>
<p>REQUIREMENTS<br />
• iOS 17+ for core features; iOS 26+ for Apple Foundation Models, Liquid Glass UI, Visual Intelligence, SpeechAnalyzer<br />
• HealthKit features require Health permissions (optional)<br />
• Cloud AI requires your own API key (optional)</p>
<p>Argus is built by an independent developer. Feedback: in-app via Settings → Send Feedback.</p>

What stands out

Indexes all iPhone data locally using Apple Foundation Models for privacy-first search.
Supports Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for Claude, OpenAI, or Gemini models.
Includes HealthKit dashboard, AI Photo Studio, and Visual Intelligence camera search.

Version updates

Version 2.0.0

Argus 2.0 — a major update. Chat • Multi-turn chat with personas, voice input, and read-aloud answers • Pin favorite Q&As, share whole conversations as text or image • Branch a conversation to explore alternate paths • Quick actions on AI answers: call, message, open in Maps, copy Photos & Stories • AI Photo Stories — turn 2-10 photos into a narrated story • Manga Mode — convert photos to manga art with speech bubbles • Save stories to Photos, export as PDF Insights & Mood • Weekly/monthly Data Insights with charts of your activity • Mood Journal — sentiment analysis of notes & messages, line trends Health • HealthKit integration — workouts, sleep, heart, activity, mindfulness • 8-chart Health dashboard: rings, sleep stages, HRV, resting HR, walking HR, VO2 max, steps, active energy, workouts • Workout routes on a map with HR zone breakdown Power features • Agent Mode in Chat — AI runs commands and acts on your data • Command Reference wiki in Settings — searchable catalog of every command • Per-modality AI providers — pick separate models for text, vision, image gen, and voice • Hot-fixable model catalog — new models without app updates • Visual Intelligence camera search iOS 26 native • Liquid Glass UI throughout • On-device Image Playground for free image generation • Apple Foundation Models with streaming responses iPad layout, larger keyboard support, and many performance and stability improvements.

5 月 8, 2026 · Apple App Store · iOS · View source

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