aesel gets a phone

Aesthetic Dot Computer · Sep 17, 2026 · 2m

The big thing today was aesel finally becoming a real thing you can hold. It's an iPhone app now, with a SwiftUI renderer sitting on top of the same agent loop that runs on the desktop, so the phone isn't a dumbed-down client, it's the same brain wearing a different face. I got the privacy and support pages up for the Mac listing, pointed the download link at a notarized build, and simplified the landing copy until it stopped sounding like a pitch. There's a meter now too, showing what a turn actually costs to run, and that number reaches all the way to installed copies, which felt like the…