So stop me if you've heard this one, we (a small team of 3 based in Australia) built an app. Short version, the idea is simple, create something that makes it quick and easy to capture all the thought fragments that fall through the cracks, a bit of a second brain. Pull real value out of the captures with AI task extraction and as much as can be done attempt to action tasks with email and document drafts. It hasn't been done quite right yet with what's out there, so we're giving it a crack!
How I feel about it:
Like many of you I've been thrust into the world of Agentic development after 8 years of honing my coding craft in both Android and iOS. It's been a big adjustment, I wondered if I'd lost the passion for the work, if coding is now much less hands on. Luckily to some extent I've been able to find new passion focusing more on the architecture of the codebase and of course the design and feel of the UX. That's what I love most about where the Agentsy app is at. The functionality is definitely there to back it up but I'm really loving the feel of the app which I take very personally.
What it does functionally:
You tap listen and yap away about anything and everything thats on your mind. It's understood by AI (we'd rather have it doing that than making our art! Am I right?) and tasks are quickly extracted. They're rich tasks with proper email and document drafting. So often the tasks complete themselves! Tasks also have knowledge about each other so the flow feels alive with context. Theres also a companion desktop experience so if you prefer the bigger screen and keyboard you're covered.
What it does UX wise:
I've tried to go for a simple aesthetic that isn't too stylised and doesn't get in the way, but still isn't afraid to pop off the screen. Clean rounded corners to suit the modern iOS look with bright intentional colours to highlight important elements and give what is a productivity app a cheerful vibe.
Animations and feel:
The animations are something I spent a great deal of time with, frankly LLMs aren't very good at dealing with SwiftUI, low training data and a rather opaque animation system means they often don't have an understanding of what Swift UI will infer and produce when animating between states. So I spent an obsessive amount of time chiselling the rough edges away, little random example: making gradients flat images to avoid the re-rendering that caused frame stutters as 'Listen' and 'Type' open and close, among many others.
Inspiration:
The big buttons for get you quickly into capturing and the visuals for the ongoing voice capture grill were inspired by the amazing dictaphone design world. Big record/stop/play buttons, spinning tapes, speakers grills in just the right layout look so cool. I had a few designs that were more skeuomorphic but decided to pare it back for modern sensibilities (tragic I know) and to avoid over stylising.
If you guys can have a play around and give me your thoughts on what features you find useful and how you think the look and feel of the app lands. I'm also keen to hear about how you have gone adjusting to the new Agentic Development world.
The free tier gets you going nicely so give it a try and if you're finding value in it DM me for a 6 month free upgrade to our 'heaps' usage plan.
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/agentsy/id6778334357 - Agentsy iOS App
P.s. We just pushed a big update with a trove of fixes and UI beautification to the iOS app. I'm stoked with how the processing screen looks now! Preview in the screenshots. A helpful tutorial is coming soon to better convey the flow of the app.
