Meta's Muse Agent Lands on iPad With New App Connectors

Meta's Muse agent now runs natively on the iPad, roughly a month after the iOS app launched. The Verge reported the update on October 7, noting the tablet support arrives as a single line at the bottom of the release notes.

That burial is a little odd for the headline feature, because the rest of the same update is the more substantial part: a batch of new software connectors, and a mode aimed squarely at small business owners.

What shipped

Muse is Meta's agentic AI tool, positioned by The Verge against OpenClaw, ChatGPT's Dots, and Grok Bot. The app spent several weeks as the top free app in Apple's App Store after launching, per the same report.

The release adds:

• Native iPad support. The Verge expects it to work much like the iPhone version, but to make better use of the extra screen area and iPadOS multitasking. That is a reasonable expectation rather than a tested finding — the publication is describing a one-line release note, not a hands-on.
• Eight additional tool connections: Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Zoom, Asana, and Klaviyo.
• New connectors for Granola and Notion.
• A business-goal mode. You give Muse a business goal and the agent autonomously plans marketing, client pitches, and what the report describes as developing "new product pages."

A Mac version already exists. It shipped about a week after the original mobile release, extending Muse to desktop work like organizing files.

Why the connector list matters more than the tablet

An agent is bounded by what it can reach. QuickBooks, Klaviyo and Asana are not developer toys — they are where an owner's invoices, email lists and task boards live. Adding GitHub, Figma and Canva alongside them points at an agent meant to touch the work itself, not just summarize it.

Pair that with the business-goal mode and the direction is clear enough: Meta is pitching Muse as something you hand an objective to, not a chat window you supervise. That is also the setup where an agent's mistakes stop being cosmetic, so the usual caution applies before you connect billing software to anything that plans autonomously.

Is it worth installing on an iPad today?

If you already use Muse on an iPhone, the iPad build is a free upgrade in screen area and multitasking, and there is no reported reason to skip it. If you have not tried it, the connector list is the better reason to look than the tablet layout — the App Store ranking tells you about install curiosity, not retention.

Worth noting what the coverage does not establish: there is no pricing information in the report, no performance comparison against Dots or Grok Bot, and no independent testing of the iPad build. Anyone quoting a subscription figure for Muse is not getting it from this announcement.

The pace is the real signal

The Verge's own read is that the quick turnaround on tablet support signals how hard Meta is backing its AI work, contrasting it with the 15 years it took the company to ship a dedicated iPad version of Instagram. That is the publication's interpretation, not a company statement, but the comparison is hard to argue with.

Two more Muse surfaces are already public: a standalone Tamagotchi-like device called the Muse Charm, which runs the agent without a phone, and work to bring Muse to Meta's smart glasses. The report describes the Charm as recently announced and the glasses work as still in progress. Watch whether the connector list keeps growing at this rate — that, more than the hardware, determines whether Muse is an assistant or an operator.