Argus - AI Search

Argus 2.0 is here. AI Agent Mode, an 8-chart Health dashboard, manga photo stories, and per-modality AI providers — all on-device first, with optional cloud BYOK.

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.

EVERYTHING ON-DEVICE BY DEFAULT 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.

POWERFUL SEARCH • Hybrid search blends keywords, semantic embeddings, and recency • Filter by source: photos, contacts, calendar, messages, notes, more • "Photos of food," "what did I do last weekend," "10 most recent emails" — natural language understood • Geek Mode for power users: 73 commands with pipes, macros, and workflows

CHAT & AGENT • Multi-turn conversations with personas, voice input, and spoken answers • Pin favorite exchanges, share as text or image, branch into alternate paths • Agent Mode lets the AI run commands on your data — search, summarize, create reminders, send messages — with your confirmation for anything destructive

PHOTOS & STORIES • AI Photo Studio: generate, edit, describe, enhance, OCR, remove backgrounds, watermark • Photo Stories turn 2-10 photos into a narrated journey • Manga Mode redraws your photos as manga panels with speech bubbles • Visual Intelligence (iPhone 16 Pro+) — point your camera at anything and search your data

HEALTH (NEW IN 2.0) • 8-chart dashboard: activity rings, sleep stages, HRV, resting HR, walking HR, VO2 max, steps, active energy, workouts • Workout routes plotted on Apple Maps with heart-rate zone breakdown • Mood Journal correlates sentiment with sleep and exercise • HealthKit data is read on-device only and never uploaded

INSIGHTS & MEMORY • Weekly/monthly Data Insights — charts of your activity by source and topic • Time Capsule surfaces "On This Day" memories every morning • Morning Brief notifications with today's calendar, weather, health rings, and a 1-line LLM narrative

POWER USER TOOLS • Custom keyboard extension with snippet expansion across every app • Quicklinks (parameterized URLs), workflows (multi-step macros), smart folders (saved searches) • Spotlight integration with interactive snippets — see top results without launching • Live Activities, widgets, AppIntents, Shortcuts, Action Button, Camera Control • iPad layout with NavigationSplitView, hardware keyboard support

PRIVACY-FIRST • All ingestion happens on-device • HealthKit, Photos, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Location — read locally, indexed locally • Cloud AI is opt-in with explicit consent and BYOK • Full data export (Markdown / JSON / CSV) anytime • Tap-once delete from any item

REQUIREMENTS • iOS 17+ for core features; iOS 26+ for Apple Foundation Models, Liquid Glass UI, Visual Intelligence, SpeechAnalyzer • HealthKit features require Health permissions (optional) • Cloud AI requires your own API key (optional)

Argus is built by an independent developer. Feedback: in-app via Settings → Send Feedback.