Meta announced a dedicated iPad app for its Muse AI agent on 7 October 2026, a month after the mobile launch, TechCrunch reported. The release brings the agent to a larger screen and adds connections to business software, giving Muse more places to work and more accounts through which to carry out a request.
Key points
- Muse launched on iOS and Android on 8 September; a Mac version followed about a week later.
- The iPad update adds support for its larger display and multitasking, alongside connectors for business and everyday software.
- Sensor Tower estimates put mobile installs above 6.6 million. The iPad app is available only in the US so far.
Muse moves from phones to the iPad
Muse launched on iOS and Android on 8 September. Sensor Tower estimates that it has since passed 6.6 million installs across those mobile platforms, according to TechCrunch. That is an estimate of downloads, rather than a count of people regularly asking the agent to handle tasks.
The phone app has spent several weeks at the top of the US App Store’s free iPhone chart, 9to5Mac reported. That ranking concerns the iPhone app; the iPad release gives Muse a separate form suited to a tablet, rather than simply another place to download the phone version.
The iPad update provides native support for the tablet’s larger display and multitasking features, The Verge reported. A Mac version arrived about a week after the original mobile release and extended Muse to desktop tasks such as organising files. On the iPad, the agent should work much as it does on an iPhone, while making use of the additional screen space.
Asana and QuickBooks expand Muse’s reach
Muse can connect to accounts to help manage email, meetings and bills, and to carry out requests including reservations, grocery orders and purchases. Its connectors are the links between the agent and those accounts. A person chooses which links to add and signs in to them, rather like selecting which keys to put on a keyring before asking someone else to open a door. The choice determines which services Muse can use for a task.
Booking a reservation could become a request to an agent connected to the relevant account, rather than a task carried out directly on a service’s site. Ordering groceries or making a purchase could follow the same pattern if the appropriate connection were selected and signed into. Each is a task Muse is designed to handle.
The updated connector list includes Asana, Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Klaviyo, Zoom and Meta ad accounts, as well as Notion and Granola. These additions extend the account-linking approach to software used for business work. AI Affairs previously reported on Muse’s small-business software links.
In release notes reproduced by 9to5Mac, Meta describes an option to give Muse a business goal and have it plan marketing material, prepare client pitches or develop product pages, subject to approval. That is a description of how Meta presents the feature, rather than a measurement of how well the agent completes those jobs. The practical distinction matters when a request moves beyond finding information and towards preparing work for use.
US availability and account access
The iPad app is available only in the US so far, AppleInsider reported. It also counted 173,000 ratings for the iPhone version, with an average of 4.9 stars. Ratings measure a different response from Sensor Tower’s install estimate: they come from people who submitted an App Store assessment, while the estimate covers downloads on iOS and Android.
Giving an agent access to accounts also makes errors consequential. AppleInsider reported that Meta’s explanation of how Muse works says “no automated system is perfect” and tells users “you’re responsible for fixing errors.” Those cautions bear directly on requests involving a purchase or a meeting, where the result is more than text returned to a screen.
Meta has also added retail partners including Best Buy, Gap, Sephora, Walmart and Wayfair, whose sites Muse can use to shop and complete transactions on a person’s behalf. Such visits can run into another obstacle: websites may mistake agents for unwanted bots and block them. Meta announced on 6 October that it was working with industry partners on an open agent-identification standard, previously reported by AI Affairs, intended to help businesses distinguish personal agents from malicious bots.
