Questions

Recording is only the start. Ahmo sorts your day into a few things, keeps track of your promises and the people you're about to meet, compares you with your own usual, and tells you only what you missed. You never have to go back through recordings.

No. Recording starts when you put the watch on and stops when you tap stop or Sleep Focus turns on. It picks up again when you wake.

An Apple Watch and an iPhone, both running version 26 or later.

It has to learn your usual first. All three readings are compared with your own last 14 days, and comparisons start after your first week. Until then the home screen says, “Wear it a few more days and I can compare you with your usual.” Recording, text and the day sorted into a few things work from day one.

“Ahmo has something for you” comes at most once in the morning and once in the evening: 8:30 am by default, and 9:30 pm. If there is nothing it can stand behind, that slot stays empty. Separately, there are the reminders you turn on: before a promise is due, ten minutes before a meeting, the morning note, and friends you haven't talked to in a while.

Turn on “Write the points” in Settings first. Once your conversations are written up, Ahmo can tell which line was something you said you'd do, and by when. If you named a time, it reminds you 2 hours before. If you named only a day, it reminds you at 6 pm the day before. Each promise gets one reminder, and nothing more once you check it off.

Yes, with your permission. When a meeting on your calendar includes someone you've talked to before, you get the three things you covered last time, ten minutes before it starts. The calendar is read on your phone and never uploaded.

On the People page, turn on “Tell me when we've gone quiet” for someone. It's off by default. After 21 days without a conversation, you get one reminder at 10 am. The alert doesn't name anyone; open it to see who.

No. The lock screen shows a title only, never what was said. Names you haven't allowed show as “Speaker.”

Yes. Each kind under Reminders in Settings has its own switch, and you can change the time of the morning note. Turning a kind off cancels any of that kind already scheduled.

All three come from the sound of your own voice. Energy looks at how loud and how fast you speak. Tension looks at swings in pace and talking over others. Talk is how many minutes you spoke. Only your own speech counts, never anyone else's.

Every line comes with the words it was based on, so you can check, and you can play back that moment. Readings are compared only with your own usual; they show change, not a medical judgment. If it gets something wrong, tap “Wrong” and say what's off. It files that under “you corrected” and won't say it that way again.

Only if you allow it. Then “Lately” sets your sleep, resting heart rate and steps beside your own usual. It's used on your phone and never uploaded. Without permission, everything else works as normal.

So your own sense of the day sits beside what was measured, for example: “You picked Tense. The tension in your voice today was within your usual range.” It just shows both, without explaining. Your pick stays on this phone.

Yes. Each note says whether you told it, it noticed, or you corrected it, how confident it is, and over how many days it was seen. For any note you can see why, tap “Wrong,” delete it, or tap “Stop inferring this.”

By default the watch sends once an hour, which uses less power than sending as it goes; text can show up to an hour later. It sends right away when the watch is charging, when you open Ahmo on your iPhone, when the watch is low on space, or when more than 2 hours are waiting. Nothing is deleted from the watch until the iPhone has it.

The usual reasons: Sleep Focus turned on (it resumes afterwards); the watch battery dropped below the floor, 20% by default (it resumes once charging); or the watch ran low on space (it resumes after syncing near your iPhone). If you stopped it yourself during the day and haven't restarted it after 2 hours, Ahmo reminds you once.

Your choice. Audio can be kept not at all, 7, 30 or 90 days, or forever; text and points for 30 or 90 days, or forever. When audio expires only the sound is removed; the text and points stay. Recordings you've marked “Keep” are never deleted.

Delete the last 5 minutes from the watch or the iPhone, along with everything made from it. Settings also lets you delete today or everything. Uninstalling Ahmo removes all of its data from the device.

Ask for consent before you record anyone, and follow the law where you live. An amber dot shows on the watch while it records. Under “What other people say” you can keep everything, keep only your own words (others' words are deleted once turned into text), or keep only a summary of what others said. You can also add exceptions, such as hours not to record, private calendar events, or no verbatim at home.

Only on your Apple Watch and iPhone, encrypted. Recordings and voiceprints are never sent to us or anyone else, and we have no servers that store them.

Recording, turning speech into text, telling who said what, sorting the day into a few things, comparing you with your usual, and deleting all happen on your watch and iPhone, with no connection needed. The line Ahmo brings up on its own, asking Ahmo, and the promise and meeting reminders use the service you chose under “Write the points.”

For points, the text of a conversation, with speakers shown as “Speaker.” When you ask Ahmo, the parts that relate to your question, the names in them, numbers like speaking pace, and what Ahmo remembers that bears on it. Your own name becomes “me.” Recordings and voiceprints are never sent, and everything goes to that one service only. You can turn it off anytime, and it stops connecting at once.

What runs on your devices costs nothing extra. Writing the points and asking Ahmo use your own API key, and that service bills you directly; Ahmo never handles the payment. Settings shows an estimated monthly cost based on how much you talked in the last 7 days.

Only in this iPhone's keychain. It is never uploaded or synced to us.

Numbers only: app version, a random install ID, the date, event names and values. No text, names, places, calendar or audio. You can turn them off in Settings, and nothing more is sent.

No. Ahmo has no accounts or sign-in, no ads and no tracking.

No. The people, photos and sentences here are examples. The screens are real screens from the app, which is currently in Chinese.