Mobile AI video chat that never touches your home screen

The best thing about a phone is that it is always with you. The worst thing an app can do is make that fact everyone else's business.

On a phone, the difference between an app and a tab is social, not technical. An app has an icon, and an icon has an audience — whoever glances at your screen, borrows your phone, or scrolls your app drawer. Mobile AI video chat that lives in the browser has none of that surface: it is a page you visit, exactly as private as the rest of your browsing, and the home screen stays whatever you already made it.

The format happens to suit a phone perfectly. A generated still portrait fills a portrait screen the way phones are actually held; her live text sits beneath your thumb where you already type all day. There is no stream fighting your connection and no landscape-only player — the honest shape of the product and the honest shape of the device agree with each other.

And because the thread lives in the app behind the button rather than on the handset, the phone is a doorway rather than a container. Start on the sofa laptop, continue in a queue, finish in bed — the window follows the tab, and the tab follows you.

You open the browser you always open, type nothing longer than the address, and the roster arranges itself to the width of your palm. Her window scrolls like a page, not like an app demanding gestures you have to learn; the still portrait sits above, her words arrive under your thumb, and the reply field is exactly where every other reply field in your life is.

When someone asks to see your phone, there is nothing to curate first. No icon to bury in a folder, no notification badge with her name on it, no app switcher thumbnail you forgot about. The conversation lives behind a URL, and a URL keeps whatever profile you keep.