Acti turns your mobile keyboard into an AI Agent. Retrieve Notion docs, Calendar invites, and custom workflows right from your chat bar.
Oh great, another 'AI keyboard' to fix my typos or rewrite my Slack messages into corporate diplomacy. Just what the world needed, right? But hold your horses, folks. Acti, a fresh launch that snagged over 340 points on Product Hunt, is taking a very different, almost rogue path.
Instead of regurgitating generic AI replies, Acti turns your mobile keyboard into an actual AI Agent that runs errands for you. Let's look under the hood and see why this actually makes sense.
Acti’s founder, Young, kicked off the launch with a harsh truth: back in 2007, Apple put a virtual keyboard on glass and revolutionized how we touch tech. Since then... literally nothing has changed. Twenty years later, it’s still just a static grid of letters hogging one-third of our mobile screens.
With LLMs finally being able to understand user intent from minimal input, the Acti team asked a simple question: 'What if the keyboard didn’t just carry your words, but actually finished the job?'
And thus, the Agentic Keyboard was born. Here’s how it works:
The Product Hunt crowd, usually allergic to half-baked AI wrappers, actually gave this one a warm reception.
One particularly solid observation came from user nicole_h94:
'One unexpected thing is how often I use ACTI for retrieval instead of generation. I'm not asking it to write essays. I'm mostly using it to fetch or execute things quickly.'
Spot on. As devs, we don't want an AI that talks too much. We want an assistant that shuts up and grabs the correct file.
However, the elephant in the room is Privacy and OAuth permissions. Giving a keyboard app access to your private Notion workspaces or Google Calendars feels like a security nightmare waiting to happen.
Founder Young was quick to address this. Users can choose to grant permissions upfront or trigger them on-demand. The app only accesses the tools you authorize and only when you manually trigger a Skill Key. Due to privacy compliance, the current version doesn’t store context history, though they might introduce optional secure memory in the future.
Other power users are already demanding complex workflows—like chaining multiple skills together (e.g., 'find doc -> summarize -> draft email'). The team confirmed this is technically feasible and sits high on their product roadmap.
At the end of the day, Acti has found a brilliant 'wedge'. The keyboard is the only interface that is globally present across every single mobile app. By putting AI agents right at the input source, they target a major pain point: Context Switching. Jumping between Slack, Chrome, Notion, and back to Slack just to share a link is a friction-filled chore that drains both phone battery and mental RAM.
For the Indie Hackers among us, here's the takeaway:
Would you trust a third-party keyboard with your OAuth tokens in exchange for buttery-smooth productivity? Let us know in the comments!
Source: Product Hunt
