# hako

> A small character on your Mac that does your chores, explains what you circle and talks with you in one warm voice.

hako is a native macOS app for macOS 15 or later. You type or say what you want in plain words; code works out exactly what will happen and shows a card with the counts, and nothing changes until you press Return. Apple’s own frameworks do the work, every result is read back, and Undo is one click away. Removed files go to the Trash, never deleted outright. Built-in chores need no key and no network; chat and circle to explain use your own API key, or Pro at launch. Chats and circled pictures stay on this Mac. There is no signed download yet: join the waitlist for one email when it is ready.

## Pages

- [hako, the landing page](https://hakoai.co/index.md): how a chore runs, every feature, what it works with, privacy, cost, how to join the waitlist and how to reach sales
- [Privacy](https://hakoai.co/privacy.md): what the waitlist and the sales form store, why, for how long, and how to have it deleted
- [The whole site in one file](https://hakoai.co/llms-full.txt): both pages above, one after the other

## Optional

- [Do I need an API key?](https://hakoai.co/index.md): No. Screenshots, duplicates, sorting, PDFs, photos, renames, events, reminders, dictated replies, the mail digest and finding words in a PDF all work offline with no key. Your own API key, from the Anthropic Console, adds chat, explaining what you circle, reply bodies, answers about a document and phrasings the matcher misses. It is kept in your login Keychain, on this device only. At launch, Pro adds the same features without a key.
- [Can I use it today?](https://hakoai.co/index.md): Not yet: there is no signed download. Join the waitlist and you’ll get one email when it is ready, and no other.
- [What does Pro cost?](https://hakoai.co/index.md): $10.99 a month or $99.99 a year, with a 14-day free trial; in Korea about ₩17,000 a month, tax included. Pro isn’t on sale yet: it starts at launch, and the amounts may change before then. Everything that runs on your Mac stays free.
- [What’s a credit?](https://hakoai.co/index.md): About one cent of cloud AI use. On the planned rates a chat reply is 0.2 credits, an email summary 1, a reply draft 3, a circle 3, and a question about a PDF 1 for every 5 pages, at least 3. Every card shows its credits before you approve. Pro comes with 1,200 a month.
- [Do you sell to teams?](https://hakoai.co/index.md): Yes, through Enterprise: Pro for everyone on one invoice at a volume rate, help deploying to managed Macs, and a direct line to the builder. Use Talk to sales. Team plans come later.
- [Can I change how hako looks?](https://hakoai.co/index.md): Yes. Settings › Character has Box buddy, Orb buddy, Pixel box and Mochi, in five colours and three sizes, or None for just the buttons. Done stays green and waiting stays amber in every colour.
- [Which Macs does it run on?](https://hakoai.co/index.md): macOS 15 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel. The natural voice needs Apple silicon.
- [Can it delete my files?](https://hakoai.co/index.md): No. Removed files go to the Trash and nothing is deleted outright. Duplicates are trashed only after code compared every byte, and checked again afterwards. Undo puts them back.
- [What permissions does it ask for?](https://hakoai.co/index.md): Only what a chore needs, when it needs it: Desktop, Downloads or Documents for file chores; Calendars, Reminders and Mail inside your own request; the microphone and Speech Recognition only after you turn voice on; Screen Recording only the first time you circle something. It asks for no Accessibility or Input Monitoring.
- [Why does the app say Tally?](https://hakoai.co/index.md): The project was called Tally until October 2026. The app and its code still use that name, and move to hako in a later change, together with your saved key and data.
- [Is it open source?](https://hakoai.co/index.md): Not yet. The code is private for now.