Pixel Buddy: AI Assistant

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About this app

Pixel Buddy is a little pixel character that lives on your phone. Make it your phone's assistant, hold the power button over any app, and it hops onto the screen to help. Talk or type: it answers in a speech bubble and can read the reply aloud.

WHAT IT DOES
- Timers, alarms and reminders, with a countdown ring that pops up 10 seconds before the end
- Shopping and to-do lists by voice, kept on your phone
- Opens apps, turns the flashlight on and off, tells you the time and your battery level
- Writes your WhatsApp, Telegram or SMS message, ready for you to send
- Directions, music, calls, calendar events and web searches, handed to the app that does them
- The weather for a place you name, or where you are, and what's on your calendar
- Pauses, skips and turns up the music; converts units; tells the time anywhere
- Summarizes the screen you're on, or explains a piece of text you point at
- Looks through the camera: point the phone at something and ask about it
- Remembers your name and what you ask it to keep, in a diary you can read and clear
- Optional: an evening paper, a short and witty summary of the day's notifications
- Optional: say "Hey Buddy" to call it hands-off. The wake phrase is heard on the phone
- Optional: web search through your own SearXNG server or a Brave Search or Tavily key. Only the search words are sent

CHOOSE ITS BRAIN
- On this phone: download Google's Gemma model (2.6 GB, or 3.7 GB on phones with more memory). It works offline, and nothing you say leaves the phone.
- Your own model: connect an OpenAI-compatible server on your network, such as Ollama, LM Studio or vLLM, or use a key for OpenAI, OpenRouter or Google Gemini. Pick a preset, enter the address or key, choose a model and test the connection.
- Auto: your own server on your home Wi-Fi, the on-device model everywhere else.
- Or decide later. Even with no model at all, the buddy sets timers, turns the flashlight on and off and opens apps.

YOUR PRIVACY
- With the on-device brain, your conversations stay on your phone.
- With your own model, they go only to the server you chose.
- No account, no ads, no analytics. Crash reports are off unless you turn them on.
- API keys are encrypted on the phone and never backed up.
- The buddy never sends a message for you: it writes it, and you press Send.

A BUDDY WITH PERSONALITY
Every pixel of the buddy is drawn in code. Pick its shape, colors and personality, dress it up with costumes you unlock as you level up, look after it like a pet, and set it as your screen saver.

PERMISSIONS
Pixel Buddy asks for each permission only when a feature needs it, and keeps working if you say no: microphone (to hear you), notifications (timers), alarms (on-time timers), location (the weather, and the Wi-Fi name for Auto), camera (lens and QR scanner), calendar (heads-ups and what's on today) and notification access (evening paper).

Replies come from an AI and can be wrong. Long-press a reply to report it.

In English, Spanish and French.

What’s new

New in this version:
• Behind-the-scenes tools to track down odd replies from some servers, like a reply that starts with the model's own thoughts
Thanks for using Pixel Buddy!