Ruby AI
Ruby AI

Your personal & business AI. Powered by your Mac.

Ruby AI drafts, watches, and answers on your Mac, keeping your data local and private. Connect seamlessly from your iPhone, iPad, browser, or secondary Mac—while you stay in total control, approving anything that sends, files, or spends.

Explore Ruby AI

Why it exists

A chat website can answer a question. Your business still lives on your Mac: the inbox, the calendar, the files, and the bills. Ruby AI exists to work there. It watches the morning, drafts the next step, and answers from what you saved. Your iPhone, iPad, browser, and a second Mac reach that same Mac. You approve anything that sends, files, or spends.

The inbox is only one desk. The same Mac holds the people, the money, the files, the messages, the videos, the sites, and the machines you look after.

Overview

This morning, before you open a chat

Command Center is the board: weather, mail that needs a follow-up, renewals, backup health, and how hard the Mac is working. Finish a card, snooze it, remind yourself, or escalate it. Action Center is the one list still open, split into today, overdue, waiting, and upcoming. A morning brief still arrives when Ruby AI is quit, including mail that is safe to clear. A serious alert on the Mac can show up on the phone. The day is also written down as a report you can keep.

Mail, handled

Mail Check lists, reads, marks done, archives, trashes, and moves. A reply draft arrives in your tone, and it sits there until you approve the send. Unsubscribe runs when a real link is present. Each row carries a risk mark and sender checks, and a link or attachment pauses before it opens.

Messages, notes, and calls

Messages Check shows recent texts, Notes, and call history from the Mac. A new note or a new message waits for your approval before it exists.

The week, and the year

Schedule puts calendar events and reminders in one list for today, tomorrow, and this week. Calendar Check can create, edit, reschedule, duplicate, or delete an event after you approve it. Reminders Check shows today, overdue, and upcoming, and you can mark one done. Renewals Check keeps a year of dates you saved, in 30, 60, and 90 day groups, and the ones due soon land on the morning board.

One person, fully in view

Dossier Check opens one person’s saved facts, files, and related work, then jumps to that person’s renewals, money, and files already filtered. Saved Info is the catalog of facts you taught Ruby, and a change waits until you approve it. You can also change a saved fact by saying so in chat. Recall Check browses what Ruby remembers across chats, and you can add or clear a memory without opening a thread. Ask for a person, a renewal, a site, or a vendor you already saved, and the answer comes straight from that catalog. Open the People page

Money you can see, and cannot spend by accident

Money Check reads money in and out from finance mail. Bills Check shows what is due, overdue, and paid. Cash Check takes the balances, income, and expenses you type, then estimates how many months the cash lasts. Stripe reads paid charges and invoices from a restricted key that stays on the Mac. Bank balances can come from mail alerts, or from one bank link you choose. The phone can read them. Spending still waits for you. Open the Money page

Files, from a page in your hand to a file you can use

Files Check browses the folders you allowed. Open several folders at once, pin the ones you return to, and switch between a list and a grid. Search this folder, or this folder plus the folders inside it. Preview a file, open it in a large viewer, or play audio and video on the Mac. Edit a text or code file in place, with line numbers and color for the code.

On the iPhone or iPad, Scan Document uses the camera, reads the page on the Mac, and puts the words in your draft. Scan to Folder turns those pages into a PDF in the folder you are browsing. Sketch is the sketch pad: draw with Apple Pencil or a finger, and Sketch to Folder saves the drawing there. Take a photo, or choose one you already have. On the Mac, Import Photo can pull a picture from a nearby iPhone. In the browser, Upload puts a file in that same folder. Each of those waits until you approve it.

Summarize it in chat. Include a file or a folder in chat so a later question can use it. If two files match, Ruby asks which one. Export as PDF. PDF Tools rotate, compress, pull pages out, reorder them, merge PDFs, and add a text layer the Mac can read. Make a new folder. Zip and unzip. Copy, rename one file or a batch, and move files into another allowed folder. Trash goes to the Mac trash, or to Temporary Trash when the drive has none, and you can restore from there.

Link a file to someone’s dossier, or jump straight to that person’s folder. File a document into their folder, including a subfolder you pick at the time. In chat, a reply can become a memo, a spreadsheet, or a Gantt chart. Canvas drafts a page or some code beside the chat. The phone, iPad, browser, and a second Mac can open, download, share, or copy that draft. Open the Files page

Watch, draft, and picture

YouTube Check puts your subscription feed in one panel. Pick a video and get a summary from the captions. Social Post Drafts writes a post for LinkedIn, X, Facebook, or a plain note. You edit, copy, and save it. Ruby does not post it. Create Image makes a picture on the Mac from a prompt. Understand Image takes a photo you attach and says what is in it. Photos can find receipts from this week, or pictures near a saved place, while the Photos app stays quit.

The sites and the machines

Website Watch covers WordPress sites: updates, SSL, and uptime. An update installs only after you confirm. IT Check is the Status Board for the hosts you watch: a security scan, an edge firewall, and remote access. The phone can read that status. Tailscale shows which machines can reach each other. A rule change is a diff you review, and the keys stay on the Mac. Open the Machines page

Ask, and get the kind of answer the question deserves

Drive time to a saved place or the next meeting, from Apple Maps, with the Maps app left quit. A street address in chat, mail, or a text becomes a map you open only if you tap. Ask for an arrival time and the open phone supplies the starting city. Define a word from the Mac’s dictionaries. Study Session quizzes you, then explains the answer you tapped. Search past chats and Ruby cites a few threads where you already decided. Web search can be off, automatic, or limited to your saved info, and the reply can say whether it used the web, the cloud, or your saved info. Hey Ruby is the wake phrase on the Mac, with dictation and read-aloud. A global hotkey opens a small capture window from any app. Ruby picks a local model for the kind of question, and you can pin one.

The same assistant on every screen you already carry

iPhone, iPad, a browser on a computer you paired, and a second Mac all use the first Mac. That Mac stays the one that holds the work. A short on-device reply can run on the phone without opening the Mac’s mail, files, or saved info. The full desks stay on the Mac.

You keep the risky step

Sends, filed mail, saved edits, calendar writes, and bulk clears wait. Scripts run only if you allowed them. Answers start on the Mac. Cloud help is a switch you hold: the key, when it runs, and which topics stay blocked.

Video, a wake phrase on the phone, and Ruby installing its own model are Coming Soon. They are not in the tour above.

Today

Live window. Command Center.

Command Center

  • Morning cards for weather, mail follow-ups, renewals, backup, and system load.
  • Done, Snooze, Remind, or Escalate on each card.

Action Center

  • One follow-up list across mail and Command Center cards.
  • Today, Overdue, Waiting, and Upcoming, with a count of what is new.

Daily brief scheduler

  • A morning brief even when Ruby AI is quit.
  • Renewal reminders and a morning queue of mail that is safe to clear.

Weather

  • Forecasts for the place you set as home.
  • Ask from Command Center or by voice.

Daily markdown report

  • Command Center writes a dated report you can archive.
  • Read it later, outside the app.

Backup watch

  • Command Center shows whether backup looks healthy.
  • You see the confidence on the morning card, not a separate product.

A critical alert can reach the phone

  • A serious alert on the Mac can show up on the phone.
  • You still approve anything that sends, files, or spends.

Work

Live window. Mail Check.
Live window. Schedule.
Live window. Files Check.

Messages Check

  • Recent texts, Notes, and call history from the Mac.
  • A new note or message waits for your approval.

Mail Check

  • List, read, mark done, archive, trash, and move.
  • Security badges and sender signals sit on the thread.

Unsubscribe and Move to Folder

  • Unsubscribe when a real link is there. Spam is left alone.
  • Move a thread into a mailbox you already allow.

Draft reply assist

  • A reply draft in your tone, reviewed in Mail Check.
  • Nothing sends until you approve it.

Schedule

  • Calendar events and reminders in one list.
  • Today, Tomorrow, and This Week, with Mark Done on tasks.

Calendar Check

  • Create, edit, reschedule, duplicate, or delete an event.
  • You approve the change before it is written.

Renewals Check

  • A year of renewal dates you saved, in 30, 60, and 90 day groups.
  • The ones due soon show up on the morning board.

Saved Info

  • Browse the facts you saved and stage a change.
  • The change waits for your approval before it sticks.

YouTube Check

  • Your subscription feed in one panel.
  • Pick a video and get a summary from the captions.

Reminders Check

  • Open reminders: today, overdue, and upcoming.
  • Mark one done from the panel.

Files Check

  • Browse the folders you allowed. Preview, summarize, or export a PDF.
  • Rename and move wait for your approval.

Social Post Drafts

  • Draft a post for LinkedIn, X, Facebook, or a generic note.
  • Edit, copy, and save the draft. It does not post for you.

Recall Check

  • Browse what Ruby remembers across chats.
  • Clear a memory or add one without opening a chat.

Dossier Check

  • One place for a person’s saved facts, files, and related work.
  • Jump to their renewals, money, and files already filtered.

Website Watch

  • WordPress sites: updates, SSL, and uptime.
  • Install updates only after you confirm.

Tailscale

  • See which machines can reach each other, and what Ruby noticed.
  • A rule change is a diff you review. Keys stay on the Mac.

Stripe

  • Read paid charges and invoices from a restricted key on the Mac.
  • You accept a suggestion before it becomes income. The key stays off the phone.

Money Check

  • Money in and out that Ruby read from finance mail.
  • Read-only. No bank login from this screen.

Bills Check

  • Bills Ruby found in your inbox: due, overdue, and paid.
  • Mark one paid to track it. Read-only. No bank login.

Cash Check

  • Type balances, income, and expenses yourself.
  • Ruby estimates how many months the cash lasts. No bank login.

Updates from chat

  • Change a saved fact by saying so in chat.
  • The edit waits for your approval.

iPhone and iPad

  • The phone and iPad use the same Mac.
  • You approve sends, files, and spending on the way.

A second Mac

  • Another Mac can use the same assistant.
  • The first Mac stays the one that holds the work.

IT Check

  • Hosts, a security scan, an edge firewall, and remote access.
  • Status stays on the Mac. The phone can read it.

Bank balances from mail alerts or a bank link

  • Balances from mail alerts, or from one bank link you choose.
  • The phone can read them. It cannot spend.

Ask

Live window. Chat.
Picture Ruby made. Create Image.
708 Morgans Ridge Dr, Monroe GA.

Chat and conversations

  • Streaming replies you can stop, with code blocks and a sidebar of past chats.
  • Export a reply or a thread as PDF or Markdown.

Regenerate and retry

  • Run the same turn again from the reply.
  • Retry when a reply failed or never arrived.

Suggest Chat Settings

  • One chip can appear while you type: a persona, a prompt, or a format.
  • Nothing changes until you tap Use.

Ask Before Answering

  • If a required detail is missing, Ruby asks once with a few chips.
  • Just Answer skips the question and continues.

Follow-up suggestions

  • After a reply, tappable next steps sit under it.
  • The next page of a list, a shorter explanation, or a summary.

Help topic chips

  • Type help or ? and Ruby shows topic chips.
  • Tap one to open that Help article.

Find in a conversation

  • Search the open chat instead of scrolling.
  • Step through the matches with the arrows.

Edit and resubmit

  • Change your last message and send it again.
  • Later messages in that thread are replaced.

Prompt Library

  • Starter prompts, plus prompts you save.
  • The text lands in the box so you can edit it before you send.

Personas

  • One tap sets tone, role, length, and format.
  • Starters are grouped, and you can keep your own.

On This Device

  • A short reply that runs on the phone, iPad, or a second Mac.
  • It does not open the Mac’s mail, files, or saved info.

Companion conversation style

  • Ops, Companion, Concise, or Coach for this chat.
  • Work panels stay structured in every style.

Recall memory

  • Optional memory across chats. Saved facts stay in charge.
  • You can turn it off for a single chat.

Document create and export

  • Draft a standalone memo on the Mac, or download it from a phone.
  • Save the last reply as PDF or Markdown.

Create Image

  • Make a picture on the Mac from a prompt in chat.
  • The same local image model Social Post Drafts uses.

Understand Image

  • Attach a photo and ask what is in it.
  • A local vision model, or cloud help when you turn that on.

Canvas

  • The Mac drafts a page or some code in a side workspace you can edit.
  • Phone, iPad, a browser, and a second Mac can open, download, share, or copy it.

Ruby's Memory

  • Off, Light, or Full for what Ruby may use from your saved info.
  • Light keeps the quick facts and skips the long appendix.

Instant facts

  • People, renewals, websites, and vendors you already saved.
  • Answered immediately when the fact is in your catalog.

Define a Word

  • Ask what a word means. Ruby uses the Mac’s English dictionaries.
  • A saved name stays your saved info, not a dictionary entry.

Drive Time

  • How long to a saved place or your next meeting.
  • Apple Maps on the Mac. The Maps app stays quit.

Map an Address

  • A US street address in chat, mail, or texts shows a map chip.
  • Open in Maps only when you tap.

Photos

  • Ask for receipts this week, or photos near a saved place.
  • People albums stay out. The Photos app stays quit.

Past chats

  • Search titles and message text across chats.
  • Ask what you decided and Ruby cites a few past chats, not every thread.

Study Session

  • Practice a topic with multiple-choice questions.
  • Tap an answer for immediate feedback and a short explanation.

Commands

  • A library above the message box: search, favorites, and recent commands.
  • Type / to start one. You still approve anything risky.

Files and documents

  • Attach or read a PDF, an Office file, an image, or a transcript.
  • If two files match, Ruby asks which one.

Hey Ruby and read-aloud

  • A wake phrase and dictation on the Mac, plus read-aloud.
  • A new turn can interrupt the voice.

Smart model routing

  • Ruby picks a local model for the kind of question.
  • You can pin a model, or ask for a shorter reply.

Web search

  • Search the web, or load an address you approve.
  • Per chat: off, automatic, or limited to your saved info.

Composer writing aids

  • Spelling and grammar underlines while you type.
  • A full proofread pass when you ask for one.

Text size

  • Scale chat, the message box, and Settings.
  • Smaller through Extra Large.

Chat export

  • Save a conversation or one message as PDF or Markdown.
  • An attachment can export to PDF from the preview.

Quick Bar and menu bar

  • A global hotkey opens a small capture window from anywhere on the Mac.
  • An optional menu bar icon is already there.

Import and website suggestions

  • Pull allowed website content into saved fields.
  • Export or import your full saved profile.

ETA from the phone’s city

  • Ask for an arrival time and the open phone supplies the starting city.
  • The Mac and a second Mac keep the saved place when the phone is not the one asking.

City while the phone app is open

  • The open iPhone or iPad can answer with its city.
  • Wi-Fi on. A wired Mac does not invent that city.

A reply can become a spreadsheet, a document, or a Gantt chart

  • Ask Ruby to show an answer as a sheet, a document, or a chart.
  • You review it in the chat before you keep it.

A reply can say Searched the Web, Cloud, or Saved Info

  • The reply can say which source it used.
  • Searched the Web, Cloud, or Saved Info — so you can see the path.

Try Asking

Type or say these in chat. They work today. A send, a saved edit, or a calendar write still waits until you approve it.

Today

  • What’s urgent?
  • Anything urgent?
  • Urgent items
  • What’s on my plate?
  • What’s the weather today?
  • What’s the weather tomorrow?
  • What’s the weather this weekend?
  • What’s the temperature?
  • What’s the forecast?
  • What’s the air quality?

Mail

  • What are my most important emails?
  • Which emails are important?
  • Emails I should read first
  • Priority mail
  • Find mail from Mom
  • Any mail from Mom
  • Find mail about a renewal
  • Mail about the invoice
  • Did I get mail from Mom?
  • Search mail for the invoice

Schedule

  • What’s on today?
  • Anything on today?
  • What’s happening tomorrow?
  • Anything on tomorrow?
  • What’s on Monday?
  • What’s on Tuesday?
  • What’s on Wednesday?
  • What’s on Friday?
  • When is my next meeting?
  • When do I meet Mom?

People and memory

  • show my recipes
  • How do I make potato salad?
  • Recipe for potato salad
  • List my renewals
  • What did we decide?
  • What did we discuss?
  • Search past chats
  • Am I married?
  • Who are my kids?
  • What is my name?

Money

  • Bills this week
  • Bills due this week
  • What bills are due this week?
  • Which bills are due this week?
  • How much cash do I have?
  • How much runway?
  • What’s my cash?
  • What’s my runway?
  • Cash left
  • Months of cash

Messages

  • Find texts from Mom
  • Any texts from Mom
  • Texts from Dad
  • Search texts for the trip
  • Notes about the trip
  • Find notes about the invoice
  • Any notes about the trip
  • Find calls from Mom
  • Calls from Dad
  • Search calls for Mom

Files

  • Include a file in chat
  • What does this file say?
  • Summarize this file
  • Ask a follow-up in the same chat
  • /read, then the file
  • Include a folder in chat
  • What is in this folder?
  • Read the PDF I included
  • Quote the line about the date
  • What should I do with this file?

Maps and photos

Where am I, the city, and an ETA from the phone need the iPhone or iPad app open.

  • Where am I?
  • What city am I in?
  • What’s my location?
  • What’s my ETA to home?
  • ETA to home
  • How long to my next meeting?
  • Drive time to home
  • How far is it to home?
  • Receipts this week
  • Show whiteboard photos

Words time and math

  • What time is it?
  • What’s the time?
  • What day is it?
  • What’s the date?
  • How many days until June 3?
  • How many days before June 3?
  • What is 12 times 8?
  • What is 11 divided by 2?
  • Define reticent
  • Synonym for reticent

Make something

  • /image create, then the picture you want
  • /proofread, then the paragraph
  • /document create, then the memo
  • /document export
  • /canvas write, then the page
  • /canvas code, then the script
  • /canvas revise, then the change
  • /study, then the topic
  • /social draft LinkedIn post about office hours
  • /canvas close

Look it up

Say yes, use cloud, or not now only while Ruby offers a newer answer. Cloud stays off. Research stays for this chat.

  • research on
  • turn research on
  • research off
  • turn research off
  • yes
  • use cloud
  • not now
  • Did you search the internet?
  • Where did that come from?
  • What are your sources?

Help

  • help
  • ?
  • ? mail
  • clients
  • Hey Ruby, on the Mac
  • Hey Ruby, on the open iPhone or iPad, screen on
  • health check
  • run diagnostics
  • /diagnostics
  • /diagnostics deep

Machines

  • What’s down?
  • Anything offline?
  • Which hosts are down?
  • What hosts need attention?
  • Which domains renew soon?
  • What domains do I have expiring?
  • Any domain SSL expiring?
  • Any warranties expiring?
  • Any certificates expiring?
  • How do I find a computer on the network?

What you need

The Mac that holds the work

  • An Apple silicon Mac.
  • At least 32 GB of unified memory for the recommended chat models.
  • 48 GB if that Mac also makes pictures.
  • Pictures are a one-time download of about 16 GB on that Mac.
  • The large chat models are about 19 to 21 GB each on disk. Only one stays loaded.

The other screens

  • iPhone, iPad, a browser, and a second Mac connect to that Mac.
  • They do not store the models.

Control

Sample data. Mail waits until you approve.

You approve the risky step

  • Mail moves, drafts, saved edits, calendar writes, and bulk clears wait.
  • Nothing in that list happens until you approve it.

Permissions

  • Microphone, speech, Full Disk Access, Mail, Calendar, and the rest.
  • One checklist, with a link to the system setting.

Web Companion

  • Use Ruby from a browser on a computer you paired.
  • Chats and secrets stay on the Mac.

Insights

  • Usage, launch timing, and how long replies take.
  • Counts for the cloud services you turned on.

Launch performance

  • The chat window comes up before the slower startup work.
  • Last session’s timing is in Insights.

Load-aware deferral

  • During a backup or high memory use, extra jobs wait.
  • They run when the Mac is calmer.

Optional second local engine with failover

  • You can point chat at a second local engine.
  • If it is down before the first word, Ruby continues on the main local engine.

Local-first AI

  • Answers start on the Mac.
  • Saved info stays there unless you turn cloud help on.

Cloud assistance

  • An optional second pass when local and web are thin.
  • You hold the key, when it runs, and which topics stay blocked.

Approved automation

  • Scripts you allow can run from the Mac.
  • A deny list blocks risky commands.

Mail security

  • A risk mark on the row, and a pause before a link or attachment opens.
  • Sender checks for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.

Coming Soon

Coming Soon

Video

  • A short clip from a prompt, then animate the last picture.
  • The Mac creates it. The phone receives the file.

Coming Soon

Hey Ruby on iPhone

  • Wake phrase on the phone.
  • The Mac already has it.

Coming Soon

Image Playground

  • Apple’s image sheet, when that work is picked up again.

Coming Soon

Edit a canvas on the phone

  • Today the phone can open, download, share, and copy.
  • Editing the draft on the phone is later.

Coming Soon

Ruby Runtime

  • Ruby installs and runs its own local model. Recall can live inside Ruby.
  • Starts after the sync work already queued.

Coming Soon

Local network

  • Keep reaching the Mac when the internet is down.
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