Essential

Create apps shaped exactly around your specific needs and context. That's what Essential Apps are. You describe what you need. AI builds it. It appears on your phone's home screen, ready to use. One billion apps for one billion people. Beta starts today on Nothing Playground.

Essential Apps Drawer. The Essential Apps section in the widget drawer now highlights recommended apps. Discover and add them to your home screen instantly, without opening Playground.

@AntonioLevyVa @essential It’s being rolled out gradually. If you don’t see the update notification yet, please be patient and wait a bit.

4/ 👩‍🏫How to get the updates. Rolling out from today to all 2025–2026 Nothing and CMF phones that support Essential Key. If auto-update is enabled, Essential Space will update automatically. If not, you can update it manually from the Play Store.

3/ Search, Finally Here. Use semantic search to find everything that you've saved into Essential Space.

Essential Space just got a major update! 1/ With new For You and Library pages, it is now more organised and easier to navigate, bringing important information to the surface faster.

4a Pro shimmering in Berlin today ✨ Anyone!?

Phone (4a), Phone (4a) Pro, and Headphone (a) just launched today! More capable, more expressive, and more colorful than anything we’ve built before. Nothing is designed for a generation bored with conformity. We exist to provide the canvas. The real stories are written by the creatives, designers, and techies who make these devices their own.

Phone (4a) Pro. Nothing is designed for a generation bored with conformity.

Something cooking up @essential 👀

Omi built Tempo Tap. Inspiration strikes anywhere. Subway, cafe, mid-freestyle. One tap widget. Find the BPM. Take it back to the studio. When you're in the groove, you're already tapping along. Now that instinct becomes something real.

Kuber built HN Digest. Hacker News is great. The mobile experience isn't. So he brought the best tech stories to his homescreen. Dot-matrix design. Zero distractions. 70% less browsing time. Built entirely with prompts. Didn't touch a single line of code.

We asked students worldwide to build their own Essential Apps. Personal software for personal problems. Thousands entered. We picked 5 we really liked! See more below. 🧵 And now, get them on Playground!

Feeling jiggly today!

@JEVINJ8 @SelimBenayat 🫡

@SelimBenayat @essential Seriously??? 😂

Mini challenge! A few Pokémon and a red ruby are hidden on this map. If you find them all, you might uncover a Nothing Secret! 🤫 See the comment for the @Essential App! Let me know how it went.

@SelimBenayat 🤫

@NyllRe @obsdmd 👀

@essential Is there any plans to have some sort of hooks support or anything similar to essential space? I would love to get my essential space notes in my @obsdmd vault