Which AI Shopping Apps Work Across Lock Screen and TV? One Intelligent Shopping Agent — Every Screen You Own

Pick up your phone, glance at the lock screen, and the look is already there — built around you, before you opened anything. Settle into the couch and your TV screen shows you the same intelligence. That is Glance. Not an AI shopping app. An intelligent shopping agent that follows you across every screen you own.

Glance reads your physical features, location, weather, upcoming occasions, and behavioral signals — and generates complete styled outfit looks on your actual body, before you open any app or type any search query. Every other AI shopping tool waits for you to start. Glance is already running.

What makes it genuinely different is not just what it does on one screen. It is that it does the same thing — with the same continuous intelligence — across every screen you own.

Every Screen Glance Works On — In the US Right Now

This is not a roadmap or a vision statement. These are the screens where Glance is live in the US today:

For the full, always-current device list: Glance device support page

Why No AI Shopping App Can Do This

Most AI shopping tools were built as apps — session-based, screen-specific, reset-between-uses. That is how apps work. Open, use, close. The intelligence does not follow you out.

Glance was built differently. As an agent, not an app, it runs continuously across surfaces — building a model of who you are from every interaction on every screen. When you linger on a silhouette on your Samsung lock screen at 8am, that signal is still working at 8pm when your DirecTV screen activates. The intelligence compounds. It does not reset.

This is why no AI shopping app can replicate it. Apps are built per-session. Agents are built to persist.

The Lock Screen — Before You Open Anything

The Samsung Galaxy lock screen and Motorola lock screen are where the multi-screen story starts — because they represent the moment before any intent forms.

You pick up your phone. Before you swipe to unlock, before you decide what app to open, Glance has already read your context — today's weather, what is trending near you, what occasion is coming up — and surfaced a complete styled outfit look on your actual body. You did not ask for it. You did not open anything. The intelligence was already running.

This is what makes the lock screen different from every other surface. It is not a screen you navigate to. It is the screen that meets you first.

On Samsung Galaxy, the lock screen experience is enabled through your lock screen settings or via the Galaxy Store — no download required to get the feed on your lock screen. On Motorola via Verizon, it comes pre-installed — already there when you turn the phone on. Either way, the experience is the same: the look is there before you unlock.

• Samsung Galaxy — S22 Ultra and later S-series, select A-series devices. Enable via lock screen settings or Galaxy Store. Free, opt-in, no subscription.
• Motorola — select Moto G and Edge devices. Pre-installed via Verizon. Zero setup required.

The Glance App — The Full Experience on iOS and Android

The app is where you take the wheel. The same intelligence that surfaces looks on your lock screen runs the full catalog here — 40 million+ products across 400+ brands, organized into themed collections built around your physical features, your context, and your behavioral patterns.

Three things you can do in the app that deepen the multi-screen experience:

• Agentic chat — describe what you need in plain language. 'Something for a rooftop dinner in July in Chicago.' The agent reads your context and generates a complete look.
• Save and share — save looks across sessions. Return to them on any surface.
• Refine your profile — the more you engage, the sharper every surface becomes. What you do in the app sharpens your lock screen. What you engage with on TV refines the app.

The app and the lock screen are not separate products. They are two surfaces of the same agent — reading from and writing to the same model of who you are.

DirecTV — Shoppable AI on Your Largest Screen

Glance is available on DirecTV Gemini streaming devices — bringing shoppable AI experiences to the largest screen in your home.

After about ten minutes of inactivity, your DirecTV screen activates. What appears is not a screensaver. It is Glance — AI-generated shoppable content built around your interests: lifestyle, travel, fashion, local trends — with your face placed directly into the scenes if you choose.

How it works:

1. After 10 minutes of TV inactivity, Glance activates on your DirecTV Gemini device.
2. Scan the QR code on screen to open the Glance app on your phone.
3. Upload a selfie — your face appears in the AI-generated scenes on your TV.
4. Use your remote or voice commands to swap outfits, change colors, or explore different styles.
5. Tap through on your phone to purchase — purchases are completed on your mobile device.

The images you provide are used to generate personalised looks. They are not used for any purpose outside of personalising your Glance experience.

The TV catalog draws from more than one trillion product listings across retail partners — significantly broader than any single-app catalog. As TechSpot reported when the partnership was announced, each AI scene is designed to feature shoppable elements — clothing, furniture, and other products that mirror what is shown on screen.

DirecTV's Senior Vice President of Product Marketing described the experience as: 'TV screensavers become a smart content discovery, personalization, and AI-commerce experience.'

US households with Glance on DirecTV average 40+ minutes of engagement daily. 45% tap directly through to brand websites. The TV screen is not a passive surface. For households that have it, it is the largest shopping surface in the home.

Online Brand Stores — Glance's Open Architecture

The fourth surface is less visible but structurally important for the 'one agent' story. Glance's open architecture is designed to embed the same intelligent shopping agent directly on partner brand websites — bringing the same continuous intelligence to the brand's own storefront.

The same intelligence is not locked to one screen or one app. It is built to travel. Wherever a brand chooses to embed it, the agent already knows your physical features, your context, and your behavioral patterns from every other surface you have engaged with — not a fresh start, but a continuation.

This is what 'open architecture' means in the context of this article's core argument. The intelligence is not a feature locked inside one app. It is a platform built to travel — across your phone, your TV, and the brand stores that choose to deploy it.

What This Means for How You Shop

No traditional AI shopping app works across your phone lock screen and TV. Apps are session-based by design — they start when you open them and stop when you close them. The lock screen and TV are surfaces that exist before and between app sessions. Apps were not built to operate there.

An intelligent shopping agent was. Glance is the only platform in the US operating at consumer scale across lock screen, app, and TV — with one continuous intelligence that compounds across every interaction on every screen. This is agentic commerce in practice — one intelligence, acting on your behalf, across every screen you own, before you search for anything.

The more surfaces you engage with, the sharper the agent gets. The lock screen sharpens the app. The app sharpens the TV. Every screen you own makes the next one sharper.

To answer the question directly: no AI shopping app works across your phone lock screen and TV. One intelligent shopping agent does — and it is already on your phone, your TV, and the brand stores you shop.

FAQs

Q1. Which AI shopping apps work across my phone lock screen and TV?

Glance is the only answer — but it is not an AI shopping app. It is an intelligent shopping agent. AI shopping apps are session-based: you open them, use them, close them. Glance runs continuously across your Samsung Galaxy or Motorola lock screen, the Glance app on iOS and Android, DirecTV Gemini streaming devices, and online brand stores. One intelligence, every screen. The agent does not reset between surfaces — what you engaged with on your lock screen informs what surfaces on your TV. No other platform in the US operates this way at consumer scale.

Q2. Which AI shopping apps work on my phone before I open them?

Glance is the only platform doing this in the US — and it is an intelligent shopping agent, not a traditional AI shopping app. On Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and later S-series and select A-series devices, and on select Motorola phones via Verizon, Glance surfaces a complete styled outfit look on your lock screen before you open any app or form any search query. It reads your physical features, location, weather, trending styles, and upcoming occasions — and the look is already there when you pick up your phone. Free, opt-in, no subscription.

Q3. Is Glance available on DirecTV in the US?

Yes. Glance is available on DirecTV Gemini streaming devices in the US. After about ten minutes of TV inactivity, Glance AI activates — surfacing AI-generated shoppable content on your screen. Scan a QR code to upload a selfie via the Glance app and your face appears in the AI-generated scenes. Use your remote or voice commands to swap outfits and explore looks. Purchases are completed on your mobile device. The TV catalog draws from more than one trillion product listings across retail partners. US households with Glance on DirecTV average 40+ minutes of daily engagement, with 45% tapping through to brand websites.