Everything people ask

No. The normal way is to say it out loud and let the thread write itself, but if you'd rather type it at any point, you can: voice is the fast path, not the only one.

As long as it takes to say it: twenty or thirty seconds, right after you talk to someone. There's nothing to check daily.

No. AlHilo doesn't join the conversation or listen to anything: it only records when you tap to tell it something, afterwards.

No. Whatever's moving shows up on the home screen, and if something has a date, you're reminded the day before. Opening someone's page is optional.

As many as you want, but it's built for a small circle: about fifteen people. It's not an address book.

Reading your threads, yes, always. Transcribing a recording needs a connection at that moment.

Fair question. The difference is in what's saved and why: there's no prioritizing, no value-per-contact, no follow-up reminders. Just what they told you, so you don't forget it.

Because turning something you do because you want to into homework is the fastest way to stop wanting to — the overjustification effect, studied since the seventies. AlHilo remembers; deciding when to call is yours.

No. No advice, no suggested messages, no judgments about your relationships.

None of that. There's no way to post or send your threads to anyone else, and there are no plans to add one.

It's sent encrypted to be transcribed and deleted as soon as the thread is written. The transcript isn't kept either: it's used to write the thread and then discarded.

No. AlHilo doesn't contact anyone and has no way to: only you read what you save. To write the thread, the text passes through two services that don't keep it or train on it.

No and no. No advertisers, no sharing with third parties, no models trained on what you save. There is usage analytics, and it doesn't carry a single word of what you save.

Yes, whenever you want and with no questions asked, from Profile → Delete account. Told in full in the privacy page.

The first version is free. If there's ever a paid tier, it'll be announced beforehand, and it won't be in exchange for your data.

Android only for now. Leave your email and I'll let you know the day that changes.

Alex, a software engineer. I designed and built AlHilo for myself: I'd spent years losing track of what was going on with the people I care about, and no tool did that job without turning it into a task list.

Showing it to people around me, I saw the problem was common, so I'm polishing it to publish. It's built and maintained by one person, in Spain, with no investors and no pressure to monetize your data.

This fall, on Google Play. One email, only one, the day it's out.