Better options exist
Models are slow, the app is buggy, costs $25/month subscription. If you want AI better alternatives exist
I want to use it but it is sooo slow
How come do a simple question would take like 5 mins?
Buggy
The app os very buggy and will fail with sending follow up chat messages or won’t refresh the ui when there is an answer. I have to close and restart the app constantly to use it.
Broken UI
I can’t scroll to read the full answer and I keep getting error messages.
What I want but also janky
I was pretty excited to see Kagi release an assistant client. I would much rather funnel requests through Kagi. However the interface frequently has problems: I often get a message that something failed with a “retry” button that literally never works, or I send a query that never elicits a response, as if the message got lost. The fix for now is to restart Assistant, but it’s pretty frustrating and it makes me wonder if Kagi is vibecoding their Assistant client.
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Great
Works super super well, the best LLM quick questions research app I have used.
Tiny and it works
Look at the size of modern apps, they’re all massive! Kagi is 30mb. Which is joyous compared to most of the other LLM chat apps. Plus it works well - having compared results with Claude, they’re similar if not the same - has no tracking or spying nonsense, defaults to expiring chats and to top it all, Kagi is priced far better than the other options. What’s not to like?
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Point d’orgue de l’univers Kagi
Vous avez aimé Kagi search ? Vous adorerez l’assistant qui anonymise vos échanges avec une IA. Les versions gratuites des chatbots analysent vos discussions, vous profilent, des relecteurs physiques relisent vos échanges. Ici il faut payer (oui si tu n’es pas le client tu es le produit) mais les échanges deviennent vraiment privés, sans traçage etc.
L’optimisation des IA en fonction des sujets avec une supervision maison fonctionne très bien.
L’optimisation des IA en fonction des sujets avec une supervision maison fonctionne très bien.
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This is the best assistant
Among privacy respecting assistants, this one shines the best. And somehow “quick” doesn’t sound as smarmy as claude usually does, although I’m sure it uses claude quite a bit.
Inconsistent Scrolling
While a response is loading, and after, the scroll on the chat log is unusable. It is non-responsive and often times ends up accidentally recording a swipe gesture to bring me back to the thread list. The UI and answers are quality, but, the scroll behaviour makes it almost unusable.
iPhone 17 on iOS 27.
iPhone 17 on iOS 27.
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Works great
Previous issues I was having are fixed. It’s a quality grounded AI assistant.
Great on the web, horrible app
The swipe gesture to open the side menu is awful and goes against iOS idioms. I can’t reliably select text or even scroll through a response!
Broken in many ways
Have been using assistant on the web for 1+ years. It’s good, grounded AI. But this new mobile app is broken to the point of being unusable. AI written and rushed, likely. I’m sure it will get better over time.
Response from developer
Hello. We are are sorry to hear you are having this experience. We'd love to fix the issues you're seeing. Could you please share some instances of things that felt unusable?
Rushed and buggy
I was waiting for the Kagi assistant app but this is rushed and buggy. You can copy and paste responses because if you try to select text that’s more than a page long it won’t select it properly and won’t scroll while selecting. It will often just stop updating the chat if signal is lost even momentarily unless you kill the app and reopen it. If you background the app while a response is processing and come back to foreground it, it doesn’t update the response unless you switch threads and back again. It’s a very non-native app that’s somehow managed to be a downgrade from the web.
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Another great service from Kagi
Versatile and solid app. 24 hour auto-delete on chats is a nice privacy feature. This has become my most used assistant!
Funktioniert gut mit einer Einschränkung
Läuft schnell und flüssig auf iphone und mac, aber bei beiden Versionen lassen sich Antworten nicht gut aus der App rauskopieren, wenn die Antwort länger ist als auf dem Bildschirm angezeigt wird. Man kann alles markieren klicken, aber dann wird wirklich der ganze Verlauf kopiert, was ich auch nicht brauche. Für meinen Workflow gerade noch hinderlich und deshalb benutze ich weiter den Browser
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Not professional
You have to pay something like $25 for all ai models access. For that you get a very buggy app, models dont follow instructions, deepseek as slow as 56Kbps modem, expect lots of hiccups.
if you want something to use on the side its ok but if you want something to depend on look else where for something more professional.
if you want something to use on the side its ok but if you want something to depend on look else where for something more professional.
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Response from developer
Hey, we are so sorry you had a slow experience on the app. The slow response speeds was due to an outage we were experiencing. This should be fixed now. We hope to give the app a go again. If you run into more issues, please let us know. If the experience has improved, we'd love it if you can revisit this review. Thanks.
Solid for personal AI + search
It’s a non-invasive AI tuned for research, backed by Kagi’s excellent search index. Lots of models available. This has easily displaced both ChatGPT and Claude (non-code) in my personal workflow
Great assistant ruined by immature iOS implementation
Kagi developers: I’ve been using the Kagi assistant via the web for a long time now. I love it. I’m happy to have a native app, but the output rendering of markdown is broken — maps links come through as 
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Another great service from Kagi
Versatile and solid app. 24 hour auto-delete on chats is a nice privacy feature.
Response from developer
Thanks! Privacy is of utmost importance to us :)
