Android users can breathe a sigh of relief: Anthropic have just launched the Claude app for Android devices, just two months after premiering its AI app for iOS. Finally, it’s no longer Apple users getting to have all the fun.
The company’s recent announcement will find Anthropic’s flagship chatbot in the hands of a much wider audience. Claude may be behind the curve of OpenAI’s ChatGPT – it released its app to Android users a year ago now – but it’s proving to be one of its fiercest competitors.
Functioning just like its iOS offering, the Claude app on Android features a host of impressive features which we’ll go into more detail about below. It’s also free and easy to download for all Android users.
What Features Does the Claude App Offer?
Android users can now utilize the powerful functionality of Claude 3.5 Sonnet beyond the constraints of a web browser. That means having complex requests carried out following a variety of user prompts – including text, numerical data, video data inputs – while on the go and across a range of devices.
Some of the Claude app’s impressive features include:
- Multi-platform support: log in to your account from multiple platforms and devices, across web browsers, iOS and Android apps. That offers the hugely beneficial advantage of being to pick up with Claude wherever you left off.
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- Vision capabilities: upload new images or upload files for real-world analysis. Claude can identify objects and people in the image and interpret the context of the image itself.
- Multilingual processing: Real-time language translation to help communicate or translate aspects of the world around you.
- Advanced reasoning: Claude can provide thoughtful outputs to complex problems: analyzing numerical data, breaking down business contracts, or conducting market research.
More generally, Claude can withstand what you might call some pretty substantial “data dumps”. For instance, the chatbot can process up to 200,000 words of text in a single request. That means Claude is invaluable when it comes to analyzing those doorstep-sized business reports.
Get Up and Running with Claude
The first step, naturally, is to download the app, and you’ll find it on the Google Play store. The app is completely free to all Claude users, although there are some limitations. Also, if you haven’t already got one, you’ll need to create an account to start using Claude.
Once you’re up and running, simply enter your prompts into the text box, or use the paperclip icon in the app’s bottom left hand corner to add multimodal content to your chat (text documents, image, speech, video, or a combination of these).
As we mentioned, the app is totally free…but that does come with some minor limitations, like a daily message quota. This will vary depending on demand but you’ll be notified when you reach your limit.
Finding those daily restrictions prohibitive? You might consider paying up for the Claude Pro plan. The advantages are that it boosts the amount of prompts you can use by a five times as many, while providing a number of extra features, too.
Data Privacy and Transparency
Anthropic remains sensitive to user’s data privacy concerns, especially those surrounding the ongoing explosion of AI software and its regulation.
The company states that it won’t access password protected pages. Neither does it bypass CAPTCHA controls. It also helps users keep their data out of the hands of bad actors, by refraining from using Anthropic’s services to process personal data.
Anthropic is also refreshingly up front about the technology’s limitations. It has noted that the software, like all AI chatbots, can ‘hallucinate‘, throwing up odd responses or flat out lies.
