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Karpo texts you a plan for tonight based on what you actually liked last time.
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No recommendation app usually texts first — most just sit there waiting for someone to open them and start scrolling. Karpo is a proactive AI assistant that lives in iMessage instead, texting first rather than waiting to be asked.
Asking it where to eat, what's worth seeing this weekend, or which vintage shop to check out works the same way as texting a friend, with nothing to download or open separately. What makes it proactive specifically: it can notice an open evening on a calendar and suggest a concrete plan unprompted, or offer to monitor ticket prices for an event and follow up the moment they drop or it's close to selling out, rather than only responding when asked.
Suggestions are meant to sharpen with use rather than stay generic — Karpo remembers what a user actually loved and what they skipped, and each new recommendation draws on that history instead of starting from a blank slate every time. City Guides extend the same idea into browsing mode, letting a user swipe through curated local picks framed with an actual point of view rather than a generic listicle of top-rated spots.
Beyond recommendations, Karpo can grab tickets, book travel, and help with life admin tasks through the same iMessage conversation. The site states it knows New York City, San Francisco, and London best, with Miami, Los Angeles, and Singapore also covered, and notes users in other cities have still found its picks useful. The page reviewed does not specify whether Karpo works for Android users without access to iMessage, worth confirming directly before recommending it to someone outside Apple's messaging ecosystem.
No — it works entirely through iMessage, so asking for a recommendation or a plan happens in the same place a person would already text a friend, with nothing additional to install.
It's built to reach out proactively too — the site describes it noticing an open evening on a calendar and texting a suggested plan unprompted, or following up on its own once a monitored ticket price drops.
The site states it improves with use specifically — it remembers what a user loved and what they skipped, so each new suggestion is shaped by that history rather than treating every request the same way.
Not necessarily — grabbing tickets is one of the stated actions Karpo can carry out directly, so a suggestion and the follow-through can stay in the same conversation instead of handing off to a separate app or site.
Possibly, per the site's own account — it points to user feedback from outside its strongest cities describing the picks as still useful, though depth likely varies more the further a location is from where Karpo is most established.
