A new startup, Acti, has launched an agentic keyboard for iOS and Android that can suggest words and take actions on your behalf. The app works across various apps including email, messaging, social media, and more.

According to Young Wang, the founder of Acti, this solves a problem familiar to anyone juggling multiple apps; users have to constantly switch between different apps just to get an AI’s help. “Today’s AI agents are fundamentally limited because user context stays fragmented across separate apps,” he says. Acti sits across all of them, which is why we can build a context layer that genuinely belongs to the user instead of the platform,” he adds.

Acti uses Google’s Gemini models under the hood and has a local-first model for privacy. The company plans to generate revenue via subscriptions that offer users more advanced AI models, higher daily usage limits, and other premium features. Users don’t have to know how to code to create a Skill; instead, you can just describe what you want in plain language, and Acti builds it.

The app ships with some built-in Skills already, like “T,” which allows you to translate a message to another language by long-pressing the letter on your keyboard. Another Skill, “C,” will fire off a meeting link. Users can also create their own Skills or find those that people have already built in the Skills marketplace.

The company has just closed on $5.3 million in seed funding, led by BITKraft Ventures, and the team includes CTO Mike Sun and CSO Junbo Yang.