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New Delhi: We all know that in October, Nothing has introduced its Essential Apps, the AI-generated mini applications and widgets based on the prompts, that will live on the user’s device and can be shared with others through the Nothing’s Playground community platform. Recently, Nothing is now announcing the rollout of the Essential Apps Beta, following the Alpha release from late 2025, which was only available for a small group of early adopters. The early beta is only available on the Nothing Phone 3a. The reason behind this is that it has the performance to launch multiple Essential Apps while Nothing refines the system.
In the future, the Beta will also be available on other Nothing and CMF devices running Nothing OS 4.0 and above. Essential Apps fully supports three permissions: Location, Calendar, and Contacts. So users can build stuff like location-based reminders, agenda views, meeting countdowns, and one-tap contact widgets. More capabilities are promised for the future, including camera and microphone access, network fetching, notifications, vibration, calling, and Bluetooth.
Nothing has stated that an OS update will be coming in late February, which will unlock the activity recognition, usage statistics, sensor data, and the first system Weather API. To use the Essential Apps, users can describe what they want in plain language, and the AI-powered Apps Builder will create it.
When the users edit something, only those specific parts upgrade, and the user’s application stays stable and will get more reliable over time. Essential Apps will be going into public release later this year, once the system integrations are stable and device compatibility is confirmed. The platform will continue to gain deeper system integrations by expanding design capabilities and broader device support.
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