Arc
Your mobile AI assistant on any screen
Arc launched on September 27, 2026 with 76 votes, #436 of 8,096 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Arc is a free AI assistant that works on whatever screen you're already on. You don't have to copy text into a chatbot. Call Arc up over any app and it reads the screen for you. • Summarize articles, chats, emails and docs instantly • Listen: have any screen read aloud • Rewrite replies and messages in the right tone, right where you type • Automate repetitive steps across apps Available on Android and Mac. Free to start.
Arc is a free AI assistant app that works on the screen you
Summarize, listen, rewrite and automate in any app, on Android and Mac. No copy-paste, no app switching, no explaining what you're looking at. For fifteen years the default answer was the server. Your documents lived somewhere else, your edits were round trips, and an aeroplane was enough to make the tool useless. Local-first inverts that. The device holds the real copy; the network is a synchroniser, not a landlord. Conflict-free replicated data types made the merge tractable, and cheap local storage made the rest obvious. For fifteen years software defaulted to the server — documents lived remotely and every edit was a round trip. Local-first inverts the relationship: the device…from arcassistant.app
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