One-time $9.99. You run the backend.

AiMANAC is the console for AI you actually own. You run the companion service on hardware you trust — Docker on a desk Mac, a small VPS, or a hosted pane like Railway. You bring your own provider keys. Workspaces, chats, routines, and saves land on your machine — not ours. We sell the faceplate; you own the signal path.

One purchase unlocks the full native SwiftUI app. There is no premium tier, no feature paywall, no Pro version of AiMANAC. Future $1 sibling SKUs are separate App Store products with their own identities — never tiers of AiMANAC.

Home screen — chat, controls, and tools

Always-on chat sits next to Controls. When your hosted service is linked and the model you picked can use tools, the home strip can inspect production, run saved flows, and hand context between lanes — all behind an adjustable autonomy slider. Conversation can stay on the phone with the built-in small model; heavier tooling turns on when you deliberately opt in to your server and cloud keys.

Production — four lanes, one sequencer

The production area is a four-lane layout: generate, process, analyze, output. Each lane holds steps you chain inside a recipe. Send results across lanes, into a shared bus, into your library, or into workspace channels. Build a one-off recipe, save it as a routine, or add automation when you want it to run on its own.

Sealed keys (IHP) — trust you can see

Everplay’s Intelligent Header Protocol ties each provider key to how far it is allowed to travel — stay on the phone, stay on your LAN, or reach the public internet — so misuse fails in cryptography, not just in policy text. The status strip shows where the current request is headed before you tap send.

Phi-4 — embedded on-device inference

Phi-4-mini runs entirely on-device out of the box, using your device's Metal GPU for fast, private generation without an external server. For larger open models on hardware you trust, you can connect a Local Server (LM Studio, Ollama, any OpenAI-compatible API on your network).

One purchase, four UI modes. Switch in Settings; everything below the chrome stays identical. Patchh (the mascot) adapts to each — preview the four variants at /patch/.

Nothing routes through us. The default product configuration does not phone home to Everplay-Tech: no ads, no Everplay-operated analytics pipeline. The iOS app talks to your backend, which talks to your API providers and persists your data on infrastructure you operate.

Read more on why the backend is the load-bearing piece of the architecture: Why The Backend Matters. For the mechanical view, see How It Fits Together.

The full self-deploy walkthrough — including AI-assisted setup — lives at /setup/llm/. Short version below.

1. Buy AiMANAC on the App Store. One-time purchase, no subscription. Apple handles the transaction.
2. Deploy the companion service. Follow the self-host guide at setup/llm — customer path is docker pull ghcr.io/everplay-tech/aimanac-server:<tag> (no public git clone). Operators may still build from source. Docker on a laptop, a Pi, a VPS, or Railway all work.
3. Connect. In AiMANAC → Settings, paste your server URL and finish the secure first-session handshake. The on-device Phi model is already included; add cloud providers when you are ready.

AiMANAC stands alone. Each sibling adds a focused surface that base deliberately leaves as friction. All ten siblings:

• Satcheli$1 — plug-in server registry. Four control knobs per server. Shares sign-in with AiMANAC.
• Bombadil$1 (planned) — relay agent for delegated work. Phone runs the step; AiMANAC stays the console.
• PersonalStash Lite$1 — long reads into flash cards on-device; optional quiet hand-off from AiMANAC.
• DeepDivesCross-namespace music sub-brand. Shares Phi-4 model store with AiMANAC.
• Mail Sloth$1 — marketing-grade email automation on your server.
• BROILR$1 (planned) — hardened OpenClaw client. Standalone iOS app under construction.
• Archimedes$1 (planned) — sandboxed Linux desktop beside your server for HELM tools and IHP-WS.
• FL33T$1 (planned) — fleet collaboration for households / tiny teams; optional self-hosted backend.
• HELMPC$1 (planned) — modular sequencer for repeatable routines on your hosted profile.
• ARACHNID$1 (planned) — hardened iPhone browser for HELM-driven web chores; no separate rental cloud.

One Discord covers customer support and feedback across every app on this page — AiMANAC base and all ten siblings. We do not run separate forums, Typeform surveys, or in-app feedback chrome. If you have a question, a bug, a request, or you just want to follow build cadence, that is the place.

Until the public invite lands here, reach the maintainer at info@llmtech.net. Same person answers either way.