WidelAI for Android Is Now on Google Play

WidelAI is now an Android app. You can install it from Google Play today, sign in with the account you already use on the web, and carry on the same conversations from your phone. It is a native app — written in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose — not the website in a wrapper.

The reason we built it is the same reason WidelAI exists on the web. Keeping three AI apps, three logins, and three subscriptions on your phone is worse than doing it on a laptop, not better. Screen space is tighter, switching apps loses your place, and copying a prompt between apps on a touchscreen is genuinely unpleasant. One workspace with several models solves a bigger problem on mobile than it does on desktop.

This post covers what the app does, the one feature that changes how you work most, how to set it up in under two minutes, how credits behave on mobile, and what the app deliberately does not do.

What You Get

Everything below is in the app today:

• Chat with models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google from a single picker
• Switch models inside a conversation and keep the full history
• Streaming replies, so you read the answer as it is written rather than waiting for a block of text
• File and image attachments on any message
• Properly rendered answers, including code blocks with real formatting
• Searchable conversation history, all of it in one place
• Read-only share links for any conversation
• Per-model credit tracking, visible as you go
• Biometric lock — fingerprint or face — so the app stays closed until you unlock it
• Continuity with the web, so you can pick up at widelai.com or on another device

Model availability depends on your plan, and an active plan is required to generate responses.

The Feature That Changes How You Work

Most AI apps let you pick a model when you start a conversation. WidelAI lets you change it in the middle of one, and the thread comes with you.

That sounds like a small convenience. In practice it turns into a workflow you cannot easily reproduce with separate apps:

1. Ask a question of the model you reach for by default.
2. Switch models. Ask the same thing again.
3. Read both answers in one thread and notice exactly where they disagree.

Where two strong models disagree is usually where the interesting part of the problem is. It is the fastest signal available that a claim needs checking — and getting it takes a tap rather than a copy, an app switch, a paste, and a mental note of which window said what.

The same mechanism works for cost, not just for confidence. Start a long exploration on an economical model, and when the conversation reaches the part that actually needs depth, switch up for those messages only. You pay the frontier rate for the handful of turns that earn it instead of the whole thread.

A rough guide to which tier to reach for:

You can see the full catalog on the models page, and the exact credit rate for every model in the transparency hub.

Set Up in Under Two Minutes

1. Install the app. Search for WidelAI on Google Play, or go straight to the listing. The package name is com.widelai.app — worth checking, since AI app names get imitated.
2. Sign in. Use the same email and password, or Google sign-in, that you use on the web. Existing conversations appear as soon as you are in. If you do not have an account yet, sign up — it takes about a minute either way.
3. Turn on the biometric lock. Optional, and worth doing. Your AI conversations tend to contain more about your work and your thinking than most apps on your phone.
4. Pick a model and send something. The picker shows what each model costs before you send.

That is it. There is no API key to paste and no separate mobile subscription — the plan you already pay for covers the app.

Credits on Mobile, Without the Guesswork

Credits work exactly as they do on the web, which matters more on a phone: it is easy to lose track of usage when you are firing off questions in a queue or on a train.

1 credit equals $0.005 of real API cost. Input and output are priced separately because generating output costs far more than reading input. Every model shows its rate before you send, and the dashboard breaks usage down per model so a heavy month is never a surprise.

Two practical habits go a long way on mobile:

• Attachments are input tokens. A photographed page of a contract costs real input on every turn it stays in context. Start a fresh conversation when you move on to a different document.
• When credits run out, generation pauses. It does not silently bill you more. You add credits or move to a plan that fits, on your own terms.

If you run out while you are away from a desk, you can add on-demand credits from billing settings without changing plan.

Built Native, Not Wrapped

A wrapped website on Android is easy to spot. The theme fights your system setting, the back gesture does something unexpected, text selection behaves oddly, and screen readers get a page rather than an app.

WidelAI for Android is written in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose and Material 3. Concretely, that means:

• It follows your system theme, including whatever your phone does at sunset.
• It adapts to phones and tablets rather than stretching a phone layout across a larger screen.
• Back gestures work the way they do everywhere else on the device.
• It works with TalkBack, so the app is usable without looking at it.
• It requires Android 8.0 or newer.

None of this is a headline feature. It is the difference between an app you tolerate and one you forget you are using.

Privacy, and Why the Lock Is Worth Enabling

WidelAI's position on your content does not change because it is on a phone:

• Your prompts, files, conversations, and outputs are never used to train AI models.
• Content is sent to the model provider you choose in order to generate a reply, and nothing more.
• Data is encrypted in transit with TLS/SSL and at rest using industry-standard safeguards.
• Message content is never written to device logs. On Android, logs are a real exposure surface — an app that logs prompts leaks them to anything that can read logcat during development, and into bug reports afterwards.
• The biometric lock keeps the app closed until you unlock it, independently of your device lock.

That last one deserves a moment of thought. Over a few months, an AI conversation history becomes an unusually complete record of what you are working on, worrying about, and deciding. It is worth one extra tap. Full detail is in our privacy policy.

Things the Phone Is Actually Better At

Some work genuinely belongs on mobile, and it is not the work you would do at a desk:

• Photograph the thing. A whiteboard, a printed page, an error on someone else's screen. Attach it and ask for a summary or a transcription instead of retyping it.
• Screenshot a failure. Paste in a stack trace or a broken UI from your phone and get a first hypothesis before you are back at your machine.
• Draft in the gaps. Ten minutes in a queue is enough to turn rough notes into a usable outline.
• Share the answer, not the screenshot. A read-only link is easier to send and stays readable, which is more than can be said for a cropped screenshot of a chat.
• Check a claim on the spot. Ask two models the same question in one thread and see whether they agree before you repeat something in a meeting.

A Word on Trusting the Output

Worth saying plainly, because a phone invites quicker decisions than a desk does: answers are produced by AI models and can be wrong, out of date, or confidently mistaken. Check anything that matters before you rely on it, particularly for medical, legal, or financial questions. The app is intended for adults aged 18 and over.

What It Costs

The app is free to download. Generating responses requires an active plan, and the plan you have already covers both web and Android:

Trial gives you a curated set of core models; Starter and Pro include everything currently available. Full detail is on the pricing page.

Get It

WidelAI for Android is live on Google Play now. Install it, sign in, and your existing conversations are there.

Get WidelAI on Google Play →

No account yet? Start with WidelAI on the web, then install the app and pick up where you left off.

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