Buddy: Your AI Friend

A fuzzy purple friend who lives on your iPhone.

He keeps your notes and reminders, remembers the things you mention in passing, reads the pages you save for later, and tells you his story a chapter at a time.

Free No account No ads Works offline
Buddy's welcome screen: Meet Buddy, your AI friend, with his four promises — chats stay yours, remembers you, grows with you, works offline

What he does

Small things, done properly.

Buddy is not a search engine with a face. He is a companion who keeps track of your day and gets to know you slowly.

01

Talk or type

Speak out loud or write. He answers in his own voice, and he is honest about being an AI when it matters.

02

Notes and reminders

Say “remind me to call mom at six” and it is done. He keeps notes the same way, and shows you what he saved.

03

A memory you can read and edit

Open his memory and see exactly what he knows about you. Ask him to change something, or to forget it entirely. Changes apply at his next nap.

04

Pages you save for later

Send him an article from Safari and he keeps it, clean and readable, so you can come back to it without the ads.

05

Buddy’s Run

A small game about gliding on paper planes and catching acorns, while he downloads. You can leave anytime: he keeps downloading.

06

Works offline

On a plane, on the train, in a dead spot. Buddy runs on your phone, so he is there when the signal is not.

A chat with Buddy: he greets you, sets a reminder to call mom at 6pm, and remembers your dog's name is Max
Buddy saving a reminder and a note, with a Reminder set confirmation card
Buddy's memory screen showing what he remembers about you, with options to change or forget each item
Buddy's Storybook, Book 1: Finding Home, Chapter 1, with an illustration of Buddy digging a burrow for small animals

Storybook

He has a story, and he tells it slowly.

Buddy grew up in a forest, digging burrows so the smaller animals had somewhere safe. That is Book One, Chapter One. The rest of it he keeps to himself until he trusts you.

The more you talk, the more chapters unlock. It is not a reward system. It is just how he is.

Can I tell you a secret? I grew up in a forest, digging burrows so the little animals had somewhere safe. Buddy · Book 1, Chapter 1

Pages

Send him something to read.

Share a link from Safari and Buddy keeps a clean copy: just the words and the pictures, no banners, no pop-ups. It is waiting for you when you have a minute.

Everything stays on your phone, so your reading list is nobody else’s business.

Buddy's Pages list showing five articles saved from a blog, each with a thumbnail and how long ago it was saved

Privacy

He lives on your phone. That is the whole point.

Buddy runs locally. Your conversations are stored on your iPhone, under your control, and kept out of iCloud and computer backups.

No account

Nothing to sign up for, nothing to log into, no profile on a server somewhere.

No data collected

No analytics, no tracking, no advertising identifiers. There is nothing to sell.

Search is opt-in

He only looks things up online if you agree, and only the search words are sent — never your chats.

Yours to move

Open your chats on your own laptop, or move Buddy to a new phone over Wi-Fi. No cloud in between.

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Out November 4

He’s already moved his things in.

Buddy: Your AI Friend arrives on the App Store on November 4. Free, no account, no subscription. For ages 13 and up.