xAI Launches Stand-Alone Grok Chatbot App on iOS

xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, recently released an iOS app for its chatbot Grok in the United States, India, and Australia.

According to TechCrunch, xAI is testing a stand-alone app for the generative AI technology—previously an exclusive feature for the social media platform X—and is also preparing a website, that says “coming soon” on its home page.

“Grok is an AI-powered assistant, developed by xAI, designed to be maximally truthful, useful, and curious,” states the description of the new app in the App Store. “Get answers to any question, generate striking images, and upload pictures to gain a deeper understanding of your world. With Grok, the universe is in your hands!”

xAI highlights its image generation features, access to real-time information from X and the web to answer questions with up-to-date information, the chatbot’s conversational tone, and its privacy policies.

Over a thousand users have already rated the app with an average of 4.9 stars on the app and it is currently ranking in the 9th place in the productivity section in the AppStore.

Many have already shared thoughts and feedback on social media as well. “the new Grok app is just ridiculously well-designed, the animations, the layout, the interactions, the blurs, the icons, the models, all of it,” said one user on X. “It really just took a few hours – Grok is now the top search result when searching for “grok” in the US App Store,” added another.

Grok has been through multiple changes in 2024, including an improved version released in April, and it later became free to all users on X in December with a limit of up to 10 messages every few hours.