Perplexity Ships Native Comet Experience for iPad

Perplexity rolled out a native Comet experience for iPad on April 28, with proper iPadOS support including multiple browser windows and Split View. The build is free on the App Store today. iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows are now all in the box.

The interesting question for visibility is how much of an audience shift this represents. iPad users skew toward research-heavy use. Students and researchers reading long-form on the train, professionals working off a tablet during meetings. Comet’s whole pitch is the assistant doing tasks alongside browsing, not after, and the iPad form factor is where that proposition has its strongest case. A 12.9-inch screen with Split View running Comet next to a research paper or a Slack thread is closer to the original “personal AI” vision than the phone version is.

What this means for sites trying to be cited inside Comet’s responses is mostly that Comet’s audience is about to grow, and that audience reads more long-form than the average AI search user. Pages with sharp, well-cited explainer content benefit. Thin pages don’t.

Perplexity also continues to push Comet hard against the Chromium ecosystem on every other surface. The pitch isn’t subtle. Browse less, ask more.

Sources: 9to5Mac, April 28, 2026.