Argus - AI Search

Name: Argus - AI Search
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Liqun Chen

AI search for your iPhone life

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

1 Rating
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Lifestyle
Developer

Liqun Chen
Language

EN
English
Size

13.5
MB

Argus 2.0 is here. AI Agent Mode, an 8-chart Health dashboard, manga photo stories, and per-modality AI providers — all on-device first, with optional cloud BYOK. Argus is your personal knowledge search engine. It indexes everything you create on your iPhone — photos, messages, calendar events, reminders, notes, contacts, voice notes, web bookmarks, workouts, sleep, and visit history — and makes it all searchable, askable, and actionable from a single search bar. EVERYTHING ON-DEVICE BY DEFAULT Argus runs Apple Foundation Models on iOS 26 for AI features at no cost and no data leaving your phone. Want better answers? Bring your own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or any OpenAI-compatible API key. You decide which model handles text, vision, image generation, and voice — all separately. POWERFUL SEARCH • Hybrid search blends keywords, semantic embeddings, and recency • Filter by source: photos, contacts, calendar, messages, notes, more • "Photos of food," "what did I do last weekend," "10 most recent emails" — natural language understood • Geek Mode for power users: 73 commands with pipes, macros, and workflows CHAT & AGENT • Multi-turn conversations with personas, voice input, and spoken answers • Pin favorite exchanges, share as text or image, branch into alternate paths • Agent Mode lets the AI run commands on your data — search, summarize, create reminders, send messages — with your confirmation for anything destructive PHOTOS & STORIES • AI Photo Studio: generate, edit, describe, enhance, OCR, remove backgrounds, watermark • Photo Stories turn 2-10 photos into a narrated journey • Manga Mode redraws your photos as manga panels with speech bubbles • Visual Intelligence (iPhone 16 Pro+) — point your camera at anything and search your data HEALTH (NEW IN 2.0) • 8-chart dashboard: activity rings, sleep stages, HRV, resting HR, walking HR, VO2 max, steps, active energy, workouts • Workout routes plotted on Apple Maps with heart-rate zone breakdown • Mood Journal correlates sentiment with sleep and exercise • HealthKit data is read on-device only and never uploaded INSIGHTS & MEMORY • Weekly/monthly Data Insights — charts of your activity by source and topic • Time Capsule surfaces "On This Day" memories every morning • Morning Brief notifications with today's calendar, weather, health rings, and a 1-line LLM narrative POWER USER TOOLS • Custom keyboard extension with snippet expansion across every app • Quicklinks (parameterized URLs), workflows (multi-step macros), smart folders (saved searches) • Spotlight integration with interactive snippets — see top results without launching • Live Activities, widgets, AppIntents, Shortcuts, Action Button, Camera Control • iPad layout with NavigationSplitView, hardware keyboard support PRIVACY-FIRST • All ingestion happens on-device • HealthKit, Photos, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Location — read locally, indexed locally • Cloud AI is opt-in with explicit consent and BYOK • Full data export (Markdown / JSON / CSV) anytime • Tap-once delete from any item REQUIREMENTS • iOS 17+ for core features; iOS 26+ for Apple Foundation Models, Liquid Glass UI, Visual Intelligence, SpeechAnalyzer • HealthKit features require Health permissions (optional) • Cloud AI requires your own API key (optional) Argus is built by an independent developer. Feedback: in-app via Settings → Send Feedback.

Ratings & Reviews

5.0

out of 5

1 Ratings

Feature requests/bug
Jun 17
burnsac100
When doing the prefix search, something like “wiki Japan” doesn’t seem to work. I’m getting used to the app. Also, can you make it so all 7000+ of my pictures are in the database? It shows only 1000 something. I did “/rebuild”, but nothing. I’m wondering if this is because they are in iCloud?Also, can you make it so that all of the photos it matches are actually shown? Not just the texting showing what is in the photo? Only some show photos, the others show text from the photos or text of what the image containsIt also shows files as being a source I can search for. It says I need to check to make sure files is enabled in my data source. I don’t see an option for files.I also cannot change the app icon. It doesn’t select the one I choose. The keyboard doesn’t have a dismiss button when first launching the app.I have added a google Gemini API. When using my API key it says that it “failed to decode LLM response”. I use a curl command with my API key and it works just fine.—-Additional:I guess I was wanting this app to be able to search through the past on my phone too. I wanted to be able to search through all calendars of all the history of events on my phone. I would like finer control as to which calendars are accessed by this app. It scrapes all of my reminders, but only recent calendar events and future calendar events. I wanted to be able to search all my photos (iCloud included); it only does 1000 photos. It would be cool to import all fields of my contact. The location is also not shown in the database browser. I would like to import safari web pages and have this app scrape the text and add it to the database. This app can be way cooler. I really like the idea—Also, can you prevent two hyphens from auto correcting to a single long hyphen? It is hard to add arguments to commands—When I use /export —source reminders —format csv it says it was exported. I search my files I cannot find it. When I try to use /share with that command. It doesn’t work
Feature requests/bug
Jun 17
burnsac100

When doing the prefix search, something like “wiki Japan” doesn’t seem to work. I’m getting used to the app. Also, can you make it so all 7000+ of my pictures are in the database? It shows only 1000 something. I did “/rebuild”, but nothing. I’m wondering if this is because they are in iCloud?Also, can you make it so that all of the photos it matches are actually shown? Not just the texting showing what is in the photo? Only some show photos, the others show text from the photos or text of what the image containsIt also shows files as being a source I can search for. It says I need to check to make sure files is enabled in my data source. I don’t see an option for files.I also cannot change the app icon. It doesn’t select the one I choose. The keyboard doesn’t have a dismiss button when first launching the app.I have added a google Gemini API. When using my API key it says that it “failed to decode LLM response”. I use a curl command with my API key and it works just fine.—-Additional:I guess I was wanting this app to be able to search through the past on my phone too. I wanted to be able to search through all calendars of all the history of events on my phone. I would like finer control as to which calendars are accessed by this app. It scrapes all of my reminders, but only recent calendar events and future calendar events. I wanted to be able to search all my photos (iCloud included); it only does 1000 photos. It would be cool to import all fields of my contact. The location is also not shown in the database browser. I would like to import safari web pages and have this app scrape the text and add it to the database. This app can be way cooler. I really like the idea—Also, can you prevent two hyphens from auto correcting to a single long hyphen? It is hard to add arguments to commands—When I use /export —source reminders —format csv it says it was exported. I search my files I cannot find it. When I try to use /share with that command. It doesn’t work

Argus 2.0 — a major update. Chat • Multi-turn chat with personas, voice input, and read-aloud answers • Pin favorite Q&As, share whole conversations as text or image • Branch a conversation to explore alternate paths • Quick actions on AI answers: call, message, open in Maps, copy Photos & Stories • AI Photo Stories — turn 2-10 photos into a narrated story • Manga Mode — convert photos to manga art with speech bubbles • Save stories to Photos, export as PDF Insights & Mood • Weekly/monthly Data Insights with charts of your activity • Mood Journal — sentiment analysis of notes & messages, line trends Health • HealthKit integration — workouts, sleep, heart, activity, mindfulness • 8-chart Health dashboard: rings, sleep stages, HRV, resting HR, walking HR, VO2 max, steps, active energy, workouts • Workout routes on a map with HR zone breakdown Power features • Agent Mode in Chat — AI runs commands and acts on your data • Command Reference wiki in Settings — searchable catalog of every command • Per-modality AI providers — pick separate models for text, vision, image gen, and voice • Hot-fixable model catalog — new models without app updates • Visual Intelligence camera search iOS 26 native • Liquid Glass UI throughout • On-device Image Playground for free image generation • Apple Foundation Models with streaming responses iPad layout, larger keyboard support, and many performance and stability improvements.

Version 2.0.0 May 8

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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Search History
- Browsing History

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Seller: Liqun Chen
Size: 13.5 MB
Category: Lifestyle
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Location: This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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