Touchy

Touchy is an early stage personal AI assistant built around the idea that an assistant should answer quickly and then get out of the way. Its tagline is "Put your phone down," and its product line describes an assistant that works with the user's apps and knows the world around them so they can stay in the moment. The vendor frames the product as a response to how consumer assistants work today, which it says are built around search and a text box. Touchy is meant to be an assistant that can see, hear and act through the tools and systems its user already has, returning the smallest amount of information needed. The site names continual learning, meaning adapting to each person's preferences and information over time, as one of the research problems the team is working on, along with making agents more reliable at understanding and preserving what a user intends. The home page is mostly a long statement of the company's thinking rather than a feature tour. It does not list supported apps, devices or specific capabilities, and the use case it gives is asking a quick question and then putting the phone away. It is best suited to people interested in a lightweight, low distraction assistant who are comfortable with a product still taking shape. Touchy does not publish pricing. The pricing page carries the same company essay and no plans or amounts.