Buddy: Privater KI-Assistent

Buddy is your personal AI assistant: an AI chat that knows you, answers emails, and schedules appointments—and takes your privacy seriously. All personal information remains encrypted on your device. Only text, in which names, addresses, and numbers are replaced with placeholders, is sent to the AI.

KNOWS YOU
• Tell Buddy about yourself—type or dictate. The dictation process runs entirely on your device.

• Your personality, writing style, greeting, and private words are never shared with the AI.

• Buddy remembers what's important to you during conversations. You can see each remembered sentence and undo it.

• Organize conversations into folders. The folder name is never shared with the AI.

EMAILS AND APPOINTMENTS

• Connect Gmail and Google Calendar. Buddy retrieves the data directly from Google to your device, without any intermediary servers, and doesn't store emails.

• The AI ​​assistant searches for and reads emails, writes replies in your style, and saves them as drafts in Gmail.

• Buddy reads your schedule, finds free time, and suggests appointments.

• Buddy never acts alone: ​​An email is only sent, and an appointment is only entered, after you confirm.

ATTACHMENTS
• Attach photos, PDFs, Word documents, and text files. Buddy reads documents on the device; only the text with placeholders is sent to the AI, never the file name.

• An image is only sent after your approval: Buddy can't hide anything in it.

DATA PROTECTION WITH THE DATA Gateway
• Before sending anything for the first time, Buddy asks for your permission and shows you who the data will be sent to and what information will be transmitted.

• Before each request, Buddy replaces names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, dates of birth, locations, companies, and IBANs on the device with placeholders like [PERSON_1]. The response is translated back on the device.

• If the gateway still finds any recognizable information, it doesn't send anything.

• "This is how the AI ​​sees it" shows you in advance what will be sent.


Data Protection with the Data Gateway

• Before sending anything, Buddy asks for your permission and shows you who the data will be sent. • A word list on the device recognizes health, medication, religion, politics, and similar topics and holds them back until you release them—not every euphemism.

• The log shows every request from the last 30 days—only on your device.

YOU CHOOSE WHERE BUDDY THINKS
Claude (Anthropic, USA), Gemini (Google, USA), Mistral (EU), a Swiss hosting provider, or a model on your own computer (for example, Ollama or LM Studio). The gateway works with every provider.

TALK INSTEAD OF TYPE
In conversation mode, the AI ​​chat becomes a voice assistant: You speak, Buddy answers. Recognition and speech output run on the device by default. Give Buddy your face: Your photo is used to create a drawn avatar that speaks when Buddy speaks.

PICTURES
With a Gemini key, Buddy can draw pictures on request. The image description also goes through the gateway.

SECURE ON YOUR DEVICE
• Everything Buddy saves is encrypted with AES-256-GCM.

• Optional app lock with fingerprint, facial recognition, or device passcode.

• Encrypted backup with your password.

• Optional synchronization between your devices, encrypted with your sync password in your own Google Drive – Google only sees encrypted data.

• No user account with us, no Buddy server, no tracking, no advertising.

WHAT YOU NEED
• Your own access (API key) to an AI service or a model on your computer. You enter into the contract directly with the provider.

• A Google account for emails and appointments.

FOR OUR HONEST LINE
Pseudonymized is not anonymous: Dates, amounts, topics, and relationships remain readable so the AI ​​can help. Unusually spelled names and unknown locations without a reference may be overlooked; images are not checked.

German and English. For Android phones and tablets, including foldable devices.

Privacy Policy: https://buddyhush.com/datenschutz/
Publisher: Schweizerpunkt GmbH, Niederglatt

Gmail, Google Calendar, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, Ollama, and LM Studio are trademarks of their respective owners. There is no partnership with these providers.