A little more life.
A little less screen.

How it started

How many times today did you take your phone out of your pocket just to check one thing?

If the honest answer is "more than I'd like", you already know the problem. WhatsApp, SMS, mail, alerts: a different app for each, and one long scroll through all of them. And the idea of an assistant that wants my whole life in the cloud before it helps felt wrong to me.

So I built Pocketsay. You keep the phone in your pocket and say, "Hey Proto, what did I miss?" It tells you, newest first, five at a time. You say, "Tell a friend I'm coming at 8." Proto drafts the reply, reads it back, and waits for you to approve it. Sending through another app needs your phone unlocked.

I made a few decisions early, and I'm keeping them.

You keep the final say. Message drafts are read back before you approve them. Beta phone tasks have safeguards designed to stop before purchases and payments and avoid sensitive fields. Those checks depend on what an app shows on screen, so they are not a security guarantee.

You can see what leaves. Selected notifications are saved on your phone in an encrypted database. Questions and saved context go to Groq or Gemini using your key; broad questions can include recent saved history. Phone tasks send screen text too, and Android speech recognition may use a network service. The privacy page explains the trade-offs in plain words.

The limits are published. Gmail previews, group chats, rate limits, one phone tested. If something doesn't work yet, it is on a list you can read.

You can walk away. One tap deletes what is saved. Uninstalling removes the app's private storage. You can revoke your API key at the provider whenever you like.

Pocketsay is version 0.3.0. I built it on a Poco F4, and that is the only phone I've tested it on properly. Some things don't work yet, and I'd rather you hear that from me than find out the hard way. Hindi and Telugu are in progress, and I won't say they work until they do.

Early testing is simple. You install the app file and set it up in about ten minutes. You use it, and you tell me what surprised you or broke. A person reads every message. New versions appear in the changelog with their checksums, and the What's next page shows where it is heading. Pocketsay is free to try while it is in early testing.

If that sounds like you, the download page has everything you need. Thank you for trying it.

Bhanu Avadutha
Made in India.

How it's built, in four lines

• An Android app, built and tested on a Poco F4 running Android 14 and HyperOS.
• Chats, mail and alerts you switch on are saved in an encrypted SQLCipher database, with its key in the Android Keystore.
• You choose the model provider, Groq or Google Gemini, and bring your own API key.
• Two names: Pocketsay is the app, and Proto is the assistant inside it. You say "Hey Proto".

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