Karen: Voice Assistant & Chat

Karen is a free voice assistant for Android with a real personality and a story that began in 2014. Talk or type: she prepares calls and messages, tells you the weather, sets alarms and reminders, plays with you and remembers what matters to you. No ads, no account and no artificial intelligence: every sentence she understands and every answer she gives was written by hand, and what she knows about you stays on your phone.

✍️ NO AI: HANDCRAFTED, ONE ANSWER AT A TIME
Karen doesn't use language models. She is rule-based: she recognizes your sentence among hundreds of hand-written rules and answers with lines written by her creator. She doesn't make things up, doesn't learn from your chats and doesn't send what you say to anyone. It's patient work that started in 2014 and keeps growing, in six languages.

🗣️ TALK TO HER LIKE A FRIEND
Karen understands everyday sentences, even with typos, slang and abbreviations, in English, Italian, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. She answers out loud with your phone's voice, greets you differently in the morning and at night, celebrates your birthday and remembers your name, your city and what you like.

📱 GETS THINGS DONE ON YOUR PHONE
• Call a contact or a number, send an SMS, a WhatsApp message or an email: Karen prepares it and opens the right app
• Set alarms and timers, and create reminders ("in 20 minutes remind me to…")
• Weather today and tomorrow, where you are or in any city
• Navigate to a place, open apps, play music, search the web, YouTube and Wikipedia
• Translate words and sentences, do math, percentages and unit conversions
• Flashlight, camera, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth panels, volume, battery, dates and countdowns
• "Where am I?" and "send my location" to a contact

🎲 PLAYS AND KEEPS YOU COMPANY
Tic-tac-toe, rock paper scissors, guess the number, a quiz, dice, heads or tails, the magic 8-ball, riddles, tongue twisters, jokes, fun facts, short stories and nursery rhymes. Ask for something "again" and she goes on.

🏴‍☠️ A CHARACTER, NOT A MACHINE
Karen has her tastes, her moods and a long list of secrets. Turn on pirate mode or secret agent mode, find the hidden easter eggs (movies, games, history and a few surprises from 2015), and see how she reacts if you are rude… she has her limits.

🔒 PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Everything Karen remembers is saved only on your phone
• No ads, no tracking, no account: your conversations never reach Starlyware
• Contacts and location are optional and asked only when needed
• Optional backup in a private Karen folder of your Google Drive, readable only by Karen
• "Forget everything" erases all her memory in one tap

🌙 CLEAN AND COMFORTABLE
A light, sky-blue design with a dark theme, smooth animations, easy-to-read text and voice input. Many features work offline.

🕰️ CONCEIVED IN 2014, PUBLISHED IN 2015, REBORN IN 2026
Gianluca Grasso started writing Karen in 2014, as a teenager, when voice assistants on smartphones were still in their early days. She arrived on Google Play on 12 September 2015, signed Best Maker Software (today Starlyware), and was updated until 2018, when stricter rules on text message and call permissions ended her first life. In 2026 she was rewritten from scratch as an update of that very first app: new face, six languages and many more words, with the same stubborn kindness.

Karen is free and has no ads. If you like her, you can support the developer with an optional in-app contribution: it doesn't unlock anything, it just helps an independent developer keep making apps.

Made in Abruzzo, Italy, by Starlyware – www.starlyware.com