Touchy

Touchy is an iOS AI assistant designed to integrate deeply with your digital and physical world, aiming to reduce screen time and simplify daily interactions. Unlike traditional AI assistants that often rely on text input and search, Touchy is built to perceive its environment through your phone's sensors, understanding what you see and hear. This allows it to provide assistance that is genuinely relevant to your current context, whether you're assembling furniture, cooking, or navigating a new place.

The tool focuses on several core research areas to achieve its goals. It uses continual learning to adapt to your preferences over time, ensuring its help becomes more personalized and effective. Touchy also employs long-horizon multimodal reasoning, processing video and audio inputs for extended periods to assist with complex, real-world tasks. A key aspect is its 'theory of mind,' which helps it understand when to intervene and when to stay out of the way, providing just enough information to be helpful without being distracting. Privacy is also a central concern, with efforts to keep user data secure through on-device processing and careful cloud delegation.

Touchy is ideal for individuals who feel overwhelmed by constant app switching and digital distractions. It helps users stay present by handling background tasks and providing proactive, context-aware assistance. Real-world use cases include getting step-by-step guidance for a new recipe, understanding complex instructions for an appliance, or simply managing daily digital interactions more efficiently, all while minimizing the need to constantly engage with your phone's screen.