By Webb Wright
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 18:00:00
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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- Comet made its mobile debut on Thursday, Perplexity announced.
- The Android app comes with smart summarization and an ad blocker.
- Android’s ecosystem could make it easier for Comet to spread.
AI startup Perplexity announced Thursday that Comet is now available on Android, marking the first time that the AI web browser has been made available on mobile devices.
The Comet Android app takes the web browser’s best-known features, like Comet Assistant and Voice Mode, and modifies them for a mobile experience.
Also: I tried Perplexity’s Comet AI browser, and I like where it’s going (but it’s not there yet)
“We didn’t want to just force a desktop experience onto mobile,” the company said in its announcement. “Instead, Perplexity has redesigned the mobile web browser for the new age of the internet.
The new app also comes with a “smart summarization” feature, which provides AI-generated summaries of open web tabs, as well as a built-in ad blocker. You can download it here.
Android vs. iOS
Perplexity’s Android launch could have big implications in its mission to colonize the broader tech ecosystem.
Since its founding in 2022, the company has painted itself as a pioneer, building a new kind of AI-powered internet. To that end, it’s been undergoing the herculean task of challenging Google’s hegemony over browsing and search. One of Google’s biggest and most obvious…