Claude AI is now available on Android, where it could dethrone ChatGPT as the most secure AI app
AI brand Anthropic is bringing its Claude app to Android, two months after its iOS debut. Claude, in case you’re unfamiliar or need a refresher, is a generative AI platform similar to ChatGPT. It answers questions posed via prompts. These prompts can be paragraphs of text, files, images, or a combination of all three at once.
As revealed in a recent announcement postThe Android app runs on Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which the company says is its most powerful model yet. It features multilingual processing to provide “real-time language translation” and “advanced reasoning.” The latter allows the AI to assist with complex tasks, such as helping users analyze data for work.
And just like the iOS app, a conversation with Claude can be continued from your smartphone and picked up on the browser version or an iPhone. All you need to do is make sure the account you use is the same on all devices.
Warnings and limitations
Claude is available for download from the Google Play Store.
When you first open the app, you’ll be prompted to log in or create an account if you don’t already have one. You’ll also receive a notification informing users that the AI isn’t perfect. Anthropic warns people that “Claude may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information.” The AI isn’t meant to provide advice on anything, so don’t just rely on the conversation without doing your own research.
The Claude app is easy to use and has a clean UI, without distractions. By tapping the paperclip icon in the bottom left corner, you can add multimodal content to the chat. Previous interactions appear on the home page.
Please note that the free app has a daily limit on the number of messages you can receive. This limit may vary. According to Anthropicit all depends on how much demand there is on a particular day. you will be notified once you reach the limit.
Of course, users can always purchase a Claude Pro subscription, which increases the daily limit to five times what people on the free plan get, and gives you extra features, such as access to other Anthropic models.
Emphasis on privacy
Anthropic certainly has its hands full if it wants to beat rivals OpenAI and Google. It cannot be overstated how dominant ChatGPT is in the industry. TechCrunch points out that Claude on iOS had a “lukewarm reception upon launch,” receiving a total of 157,000 global downloads in its first week. ChatGPT saw 480,000 installs in its first five days.
Claude has advantages that set it apart. The developer is more committed to ensuring user privacy. Anthropic states it does not collect input or output from humans to use in training their AI unless they are explicitly given permission to do so. Furthermore, the AI has been shown to be quite good at solving complex reasoning problems and write nuanced answers
So if you want an Android chatbot with an emphasis on informative responses and privacy, Claude AI comes highly recommended. For those looking for other alternatives, check out TechRadar’s roundup of the seven best chatbots you can try for free.
