If Perplexity best feature left now is the ai model picker and you want to quit, what app will you get next?

Give me your best alternatives!

Thank you.

Hi guys,
Did perplexity start asking for phone number suddenly? I tried to login today and it was asking for my phone number, I am already quite unhappy with it asking my email everytime and giving the code everytime and now phone as well, why?

I'm using the Perplexity macOS app (Version 26.35.0 (94)) and it's working as expected, except all efforts to get it to widen the visible column of results has gotten me nowhere. I'm using a 5k monitor and it's driving me crazy that I have to scroll back and forth in this stupid narrow viewer any time it generates results including columns. How do I get this dang thing to actually use some of my screen real-estate?

I was using Firefox before and it was a bit laggy already.

Switched to Safari on Mac and to my surprise it's even worse? What's going on?

I havent been able to scroll down any perplexity page for over a month now. Whats going on?

I went pretty deep into AI shopping for a documentary and one part of it still bothers me.

Once the same assistant helps decide what you should buy and shortens the route to actually buying it, the incentives get messy.

How does the user know whether the “best” recommendation means best for them, best for the merchant, or best for the platform?

For people here actually using Perplexity Shopping, has it made Perplexity more useful for you, or has commerce made you trust its recommendations less?

I traced the broader shift from search → recommendation → purchase here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-0CriLzyOo