Perplexity Comet is an AI-powered browser designed to turn everyday browsing into a more active, assisted workflow. Instead of using a normal browser for searching, reading, shopping, emailing, researching, and switching between tabs manually, Comet adds a built-in AI assistant that can understand the page you are viewing, answer questions, summarize content, compare information across tabs, and help automate online tasks. Perplexity describes Comet as a browser that acts like a personal assistant, helping users research the web, organize email, shop, create plans, and complete tasks with less friction.
Comet is available for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, making it useful for people who want an AI-first browsing experience across devices. It is built on Chromium, which means it supports common browser features such as bookmarks, pinned tabs, autofill, page translation, password suggestions, and most Chrome extensions. At the same time, it adds Perplexity-powered search, a sidebar assistant, personal search, built-in summarization, and AI navigation features.
The browser is especially helpful for researchers, students, professionals, founders, marketers, and busy teams that spend a lot of time online. Users can ask Comet to summarize webpages, videos, PDFs, and social content, compare information from open tabs, draft emails, manage schedules, analyze job descriptions, organize research tabs, and even perform browser actions with user confirmation. Its quick start guide highlights features such as Assistant Sidebar, one-click summarization, voice mode, cross-tab intelligence, and task automation.
Overall, Perplexity Comet is best for users who want a browser that does more than display websites. It combines search, AI assistance, summarization, automation, and web navigation in one workspace, making it a strong productivity tool for research-heavy and browser-based work