# Meta AI (standalone app)

Source: https://useronboarding.ai/companies/meta-ai

- Category: Onboarding for AI products
- Type: Assistants
- Product: https://www.meta.ai

The standalone Meta AI app, launched in April 2025, is built around voice. Its home screen replaces an empty chat with an animated orb and three spoken starter options under 'Where should we start?'. Sign-in uses existing Facebook or Instagram accounts, and a Discover feed shows how other people prompt.

## Notes

- Meta's launch image shows the home screen with 'Where should we start?' and three voice starters: 'Let's get to know each other', 'Learn how to use AI', 'Talk about my goals', above a 'Talk or type…' bar with a live Stop control.
- Meta says the app 'gets to know your preferences, remembers context', and can draw on Facebook and Instagram if they are linked in Accounts Center, so personalization comes from existing profiles rather than an onboarding quiz.
- A Discover feed lets users 'share and explore how others are using AI', which works as a prompt-inspiration surface.
- Decrypt's hands-on: sign in with a Facebook or Instagram account (or an email tied to other Meta accounts); the landing page offers tutorials on using AI and starting simple projects.
- The app doubles as the companion app for Meta's AI glasses (the glasses battery indicator shows in the header).

## Patterns

voice-first starters, get-to-know-you prompt, existing account sign-in, social feed as inspiration

## Screens

- ![Home screen: 'Where should we start?' with three voice starters](https://useronboarding.ai/images/meta-ai-1.jpg) Home screen: 'Where should we start?' with three voice starters (source: https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/introducing-meta-ai-app-new-way-access-ai-assistant/)

## Articles

- [Introducing the Meta AI App: A New Way to Access Your AI Assistant](https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/introducing-meta-ai-app-new-way-access-ai-assistant/): Meta Newsroom (by the product team)
- [Here's a Closer Look at Meta's New Standalone AI App](https://decrypt.co/316997/metas-latest-standalone-ai-app): Decrypt

## Cited in

- [How do products solve the blank prompt box?](https://useronboarding.ai/questions#blank-box)
- [Can you skip the questionnaire by reading context the user already has?](https://useronboarding.ai/questions#context-not-questions)
- [Signup first, or value first?](https://useronboarding.ai/questions#signup-timing)
- [How do voice-first products onboard?](https://useronboarding.ai/questions#voice)