"Back in October, Nothing unveiled Essential Apps - AI-generated mini-apps and widgets based on prompts, that will live on your device and can be shared with others through Nothing's Playground community platform. Today, Nothing is announcing the rollout of Essential Apps Beta, following the Alpha release from late 2025, which was only available for a small group of early adopters. With the Beta, access is gradually expanding through a waitlist, with users added in batches."
"The early Beta is only available on the Nothing Phone (3) "because it has the performance to launch multiple Essential Apps" while Nothing refines the system. In the future, the Beta will also be available on other Nothing and CMF devices running Nothing OS 4.0 and above. Right now, Essential Apps fully support three permissions: Location, Calendar (read only), and Contacts. So you can build stuff like location-based reminders, agenda views, meeting countdowns, and one-tap contact widgets. More capabilities are promised for the future, including camera and microphone access, network fetching, notifications, vibration, calling, and Bluetooth."
Essential Apps Beta provides AI-generated mini-apps and widgets that users create by describing desired behavior in plain language. The rollout begins on Nothing Phone (3) with access expanding via a waitlist added in batches and plans to expand to other Nothing and CMF devices running Nothing OS 4.0+. Essential Apps currently support Location, Calendar (read-only), and Contacts permissions, enabling location-based reminders, agenda views, meeting countdowns, and one-tap contact widgets. Future updates will add more capabilities such as camera and microphone access, network fetching, notifications, vibration, calling, Bluetooth, activity recognition, usage statistics, sensor data, and a system Weather API.
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