Perplexity AI to Introduce Native Mac App With AI-Powered Search, Available for Pre-Order

The company behind the namesake AI search app, Perplexity, is set to unveil a native Mac app this month. The landing page for the app has appeared on the Mac App Store, specifying the launch date and all that users will be able to experience in the app. The AI company is also allowing subscribers to sign up for the paid subscription tier of the application, Perplexity Pro, through iTunes. With this, the company will compete against OpenAI which developed its native ChatGPT app for Mac devices in January this year.

Perplexity Mac App

The Perplexity company has announced that on 15 October, the macOS app will be launched. However, the company is already offering the app for pre-order. Pre-ordering is pretty much the same as pre-installing applications on Android, and once the application is finally released, it should automatically download and install if the user’s device is connected to the Internet.

With the Perplexity app on Mac, the user will enjoy all the features seen on both the web, Android and iOS versions of the application. There is an opportunity to input a search query as a prompt and then have the AI scour the web to find the information. It provides information in both bullet points and paragraph layouts with citations to delve deeper into the topic or to validate the correctness of the information, given. It also allows users to ask follow-up questions that the chatbot will then understand the context of to answer appropriately. The edited Discover page will also offer new topics for users to explore.

The AI company has rolled out its Pro Search feature some months ago, using advanced inference in order to do a more intense analysis of the search term. Users may utilize this to search for niche topics or requires a higher level of expertise. This feature will be available in the Mac app too. In the free tier, users get only five free searches every four hours.

The size of the app is 46.8MB and it supports macOS 13 or later, as stated in the landing page of the application. Despite being completely free to download and use on an app basis, the software still has a paid subscription tier for something called Perplexity Pro. The subscription fee, which fetches one the opportunity to have a daily rate of more than 300 uses of Pro Search, free upgrade to the latest AI models, and first access to all the latest features, costs Rs. 1,950 a month. It offers Perplexity Pro for the iTunes subscription to Mac users.