By David Snow
Publication Date: 2026-05-08 15:00:00
Perplexity’s new Mac app brings its Personal Computer AI agent to a much wider audience, expanding access beyond the group of high-level subscribers who first gained entry to the service in April, the company said Thursday.
Perplexity Personal Computer AI app for Mac
The new Perplexity Mac app touts an “all-new native Mac experience” that powers Perplexity’s Personal Computer agentic feature, according to a Perplexity blog post. And as of this week, the company says all Pro and Max subscribers can access it. That expands the April release of the AI task manager that was limited to Max users. So now anyone can download the app, but more levels of paid subscription are available to use Personal Computer itself.
The original Perplexity Mac app remains for now, but Perplexity said it will go away soon. And the new Mac app is available only as a direct download from Perplexity at the moment. It’s not in the App Store yet.
What Personal Computer actually is
Personal Computer is now available to all users in a new Perplexity Mac app.
Personal Computer is an advanced version of Perplexity Computer.
It operates on any Mac, running tasks across your local files, native Mac apps, the web, and Perplexity’s secure servers. pic.twitter.com/M1QMZJuOyJ
— Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) May 7, 2026
Personal Computer is not a piece of hardware — it’s a layer of AI software that sits on top of your Mac and acts as a personal orchestrator for tasks across your machine…
