iOS 27
Built for iOS 27, not bolted onto it
Kip is a native SwiftUI app, so it gets to use the real platform: widgets that read your actual run state, a Dynamic Island that tracks a live task, Control Center toggles that do something, and on-device intelligence that never leaves your phone.
Home & Lock Screen
7 widgets, always reading live state
No mock data — every widget pulls from a shared snapshot the app keeps up to date, so what you see on your Home Screen matches what's actually happening on your server.
Today with Kip
Connection status, active or last run, next automation, today's cost.
Active Run
Is Kip working right now — phase and elapsed time, or idle and ready.
Ask Kip
Three one-tap targets: new chat, voice, or continue where you left off.
Kip Meter
Today's tokens in/out, tool calls, and estimated cost.
Next Automation
Your next scheduled job, a countdown, and how the last one went.
Context Gauge
How full the current conversation's context window is, at a glance.
Gateway Health
Server status, gateway name, version and uptime, queued runs.
Live Activities
2 Live Activities, including the Dynamic Island
Kick off a long-running task and watch it from the Island or the Lock Screen — no need to keep the app open.
Kip Run
Phase (connecting → thinking → using a tool → responding), elapsed time, model name, conversation title — with a real Stop button while it's running.
Refactoring auth module
Claude · 0:42 elapsed
Kip Focus Sprint
Current task title, position in the sprint ("2 of 4"), and a countdown to the next break — updated locally by the app as you work.
Write project outline
12:30 remaining
Control Center · Lock Screen · Action Button
6 controls, all wired to real actions
Quiet Mode and Offline Mode are genuine stateful toggles — they reflect your actual settings, not a static icon.
Ask Kip
Opens Kip and starts dictating.
New Kip Chat
Jumps straight into a fresh conversation.
Stop Kip Run
Cancels a running task in the background.
Kip Quiet Mode
Real toggle — mutes notifications app-wide.
Kip Offline Mode
Real toggle — pauses all calls to your server.
Start Focus Sprint
Opens Kip into the Focus time-budget picker.
Siri & Search
App Intents, App Shortcuts, and Spotlight
Talk to Siri
Eight App Shortcuts, each backed by a real App Intent — say "Ask Kip…" or "Run my Kip briefing" and it actually runs.
Spotlight indexing
Your conversation titles and scheduled automation names are indexed for search, so you can jump straight back into one from anywhere on iOS.
Privacy note: only titles and names are indexed — never message content.
Sharing & Continuity
Share extension and Handoff
Share into Kip
Text, a URL, or up to 4 images from any app's share sheet — it lands in a private inbox on your phone, not sent anywhere until you open Kip.
Handoff
Start a conversation on your iPhone, pick it back up on another of your Apple devices. Handoff carries the session id and title only — never message content.
On-device
Apple Intelligence, running locally
Built on Apple's FoundationModels framework — nothing here calls out to a server, and there's no API cost.
Session titles
Generates a short title for a new conversation on-device, so your chat list stays readable.
Memory extraction
Suggests durable facts worth remembering from a transcript — always shown to you for confirmation before anything is saved.
Morning briefing lines
Turns your overnight activity into a plain-English summary line, generated locally.
Next-move suggestions
Proposes a reasonable next step in a conversation, as a tappable chip — never auto-sent.
Offline drafts
Drafts a rough reply on-device when your server is unreachable, so you're not stuck with a blank box.
Honest note: these features are garnish, not load-bearing. On a device without Apple Intelligence — or with it turned off — Kip silently no-ops and behaves exactly as it would otherwise. Nothing breaks; you just don't see the on-device extras.
Look & feel
Liquid Glass icon, used with restraint
The app icon uses Apple's new Liquid Glass icon format. In the app itself, glass is an optional style you can turn on — it shows up on the chat composer bar, the "jump to latest message" button, and the next-move suggestion chip. Turn on Reduce Transparency in iOS and Kip falls back to flat, opaque surfaces automatically.
Everything above targets iOS 27. For devices that can't take the newest OS yet, there's a separate build — Kip26 — targeting iOS 26 with the same core app and a slightly smaller feature set, so more people can actually install it.