Tomte, Private Home Assistant

Say no to “Big Data Center.”
Tomte is the AI assistant you own.

Tomte lives on your Mac. It reads your documents, searches fifteen years of your Messages, remembers what you tell it, and never sends a single byte to anyone’s cloud. Not ours. Not anyone’s.

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See what it can do

Tomte for Mac is free; no monthly fees, ever. Tomte for iPhone is a one-time $19.99 on the App Store. Use is governed by the EULA.

Tomte is typing at a laptop and thinking

Working from home. Always.

Don’t give your data to the AI overlords.

Every cloud chatbot has the same fine print: your questions, your files, your life; uploaded, retained, reviewed. Tomte’s privacy isn’t a policy. It’s architecture.

Local and 100% private The model runs on your own Apple Silicon. Your documents are read in place; your messages are indexed on disk. There is no server to breach, no account to leak, no “we may share with trusted partners.” Nothing you say leaves the house.

Free on the Mac The only AI assistant you don’t pay rent on. Tomte for Mac costs nothing; no subscription, no metered tokens, no price hike next quarter. When you want it in your pocket too, the iPhone app is a one-time purchase on the App Store.

You own it. Completely. The model lives on your disk. The index lives on your disk. The memory lives on your disk. Cancel the internet and Tomte doesn’t notice. Try that with a chatbot subscription.

In your pocket in three steps.

Download Tomte for Mac Free, no account. Tomte moves in once, about 11 GB, and lives on your Mac from then on.

Get Tomte for iPhone A one-time purchase on the App Store. No subscription there either.

Pair them, once The two find each other over an end-to-end encrypted connection. Then use it on your phone like you'd use ChatGPT, except it knows your house, and nothing leaves it.

Tomte for Mac is available today. Tomte for iPhone is on the App Store now.

It does more than ChatGPT, because it knows your house.

Cloud chatbots know the internet. Tomte knows you: the receipt from March, the address your brother texted in 2019, the warranty PDF you forgot you had. Ask in plain words; get an answer with the source right next to it.

	Cloud chatbots	Tomte
Where it runs	Their data center	Your Mac
Your documents	Uploaded to be read	Read in place; they never leave
Your Messages	No access	Fifteen years, searchable in seconds
Memory	Kept on their servers	Kept in your home, yours to edit
Works offline	Never	Always; the web is an errand, not a dependency
Price	$20+ a month, forever	Free on your Mac; no monthly fee

Watch a day in the house.

Real errands, start to finish. Ask, and watch the little fellow go.

“Find the dishwasher warranty.” He searches the library, reads the PDF, and writes back with the source cited.

“What was the plumber’s number?” Fifteen years of Messages, sifted in seconds; the answer arrives with the text it came from.

“Remember the gate code is 4417.” A knot in the string, a line in the ledger. Ask again in March; he’ll know.

A house spirit, at work.

In Scandinavian folklore a tomte is the small, ancient spirit of the house: it works while the family sleeps, remembers everything that ever happened on the farm, and never, ever, leaves the property.

Searches your library PDFs, scans, photos of documents; OCR’d and indexed overnight, on device.

Knows your Messages The plumber’s number, the address from 2019; found, with the message it came from.

Remembers on purpose Tell it once. It ties a knot. Memory you can read, edit, and delete; it’s just yours.

Reads pictures too Hand it a photo of a form, a label, a whiteboard. It looks. Locally.

Goes out only when asked Web search is the one errand that leaves the house, and it’s optional, visible, and yours to switch off.

Keeps the ledger Notes, lists, running records; kept in plain files you can open without us.

The lantern travels. The library doesn’t.

On your iPhone, without a cloud in between.

Tomte for iPhone pairs directly with your Mac over an end-to-end encrypted connection. Ask from anywhere; the answer comes from your house, not a data center. And a smaller Tomte lives right on the phone for when the Mac is asleep.

Start free on the Mac today. Tomte for iPhone is a one-time purchase, available now.

Ask about your own life. On either screen.

“When does the car insurance renew, and did the new cards ever arrive?” The answer is dug out of your documents and fifteen years of Messages, sources cited right under it, the same Tomte at the desk and in your pocket.

Tomte on the Mac answering “when does the car insurance renew?” with the renewal date and premium, citing the policy PDF and an iMessage

The same conversation on Tomte for iPhone

Tomte on iPhone remembering a garage door code and recalling a saved guest wifi password, all on the device

A smaller Tomte lives on the phone.

Codes, lists, who-said-what, told once, remembered right on the device, and answered even when the Mac is asleep. Notes are kept in plain files you can open in the Files app, without us.

The library, at the desk and in your pocket.

Everything the house knows, at a glance: what’s indexed, what arrived today, which conversations are moving. The full library on the Mac, the same numbers on the phone, and all of it stays home.