Grok, the AI ​​assistant that for some reason was baked into X, is now available as a standalone app. Like the version that exists as a tab on the social media platform, the Grok app can be used to create images, summarize text and answer questions, with a conversational tone xAI, the creator of the AI ​​assistant, calling “funny and charming.”

The app was first tested with a limited set of users in December 2024, around the same time X debuted a free Grok level which is available to anyone. Before that, you had to pay at least $8 a month for X Premium with the privilege of using AI.

The limits of that free access – 10 requests every two hours, three image analysis requests per day – can also be applied to the Grok app. You can use the app without signing in, or sign in with an Apple account, X account, Google account, or plain old email. It’s not clear if an X Premium subscription gets you additional benefits with the Grok app in the same way that X does.

Grok struggled with similar issues around accuracy and unique image creation choices like other AI assistants Gemini and ChatGPT. The chatbot is primarily different from its competitors because xAI placed it as being able to answer the “spicy questions” of other AI assistants avoid, and a version of the Grok AI model is open source. You’ll have to see for yourself how “spicy” the Grok app is in the end, but at least you don’t have to go to X to use it now.