Anthropic, which makes the Claude 3 family of AI models, is launching an iOS app and adding a second paid tier for groups to share access to the models. 

The Claude mobile app can act as a chatbot, and users can also upload photos straight to the app for “image analysis.” Previously, Claude was only available through Anthropic’s Claude.ai website and third-party model libraries like Amazon Bedrock, Hugging Face, or Microsoft Azure. 

Scott White, product manager at Anthropic, says many Claude users have been accessing the AI models through the mobile web, which led Anthropic to offer an app version of Claude.ai. He says the company will come out with an Android version soon.

Anthropic, though, is a little late with its mobile app. Competitors like OpenAI’s ChatGPT already have a mobile app that it’s been running for years, while Gemini by Google can be found in the Google app for iPhone users and its own app for Android. The AI search platform Perplexity also has a mobile app. 

The Claude app will be free to all users of the Claude AI models, including free users, subscribers to Claude Pro, and the new Claude Team plan. 

Anthropic says the Team plan, which it also rolls out this month, offers access to Claude models to a minimum of five people in a group for $30 per seat per month. When people on the plan start building on Claude, they can share it with other users. The Pro plan, which first rolled out in September, is only available for individuals for $20 a month.

Subscribers to the Team plan have access to everything on the Pro plan. It can do more chat queries on Claude models compared to Pro users, which itself already gets five times more chats than those using the model for free. The Team plan also offers a larger context window, meaning people can ask the Claude chatbot to analyze long documents and maintain complex back-and-forth conversations. 

The company says it also gives groups more administrative control. Users can toggle between its Pro subscription or Team plan on the app, especially for those who want to use Claude in their work and personal lives.