Show HN: Halo – A Personal AI with On-Device Harness, Memory and Browser Agent
Your emails, memories, and context stay entirely on your device, every connection is made directly from your phone, and AI runs through API keys you control. As you use Halo, it builds a private memory of facts about you: your identity, preferences, relationships, and routines, synthesized from your connected sources. Over time it becomes genuinely useful because it actually knows you, without that knowledge ever leaving your hands.
- ▪Your emails, memories, and context stay entirely on your device, every connection is made directly from your phone, and AI runs through API keys you control.
- ▪As you use Halo, it builds a private memory of facts about you: your identity, preferences, relationships, and routines, synthesized from your connected sources.
- ▪Over time it becomes genuinely useful because it actually knows you, without that knowledge ever leaving your hands.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | App Store |
| Canonical URL | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/halo-personal-ai/id6783715054 |
| Publication time | Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:11:08 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-05T20:19:56.033Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-05T20:19:56.033Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | okZe-BKpU5S2 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Halo - Personal AI Privacy-First AI Assistant Free · In‑App Purchases Share Age Rating 4+ Years Category Productivity Developer Tanmay Sonawane Language EN English Size 340.9 MB iPhone, iPad Halo is a personal AI companion that connects to the sources already on your phone (mail, calendar, reminders, health, music, and more) and helps you act on what matters. There's no backend storing your information. Your emails, memories, and context stay entirely on your device, every connection is made directly from your phone, and AI runs through API keys you control. As you use Halo, it builds a private memory of facts about you: your identity, preferences, relationships, and routines, synthesized from your connected sources.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at App Store.