your whole life, on your mac.
nothing leaves.
photos, messages, places, health and the rest, joined into one timeline on your disk. any model of your choosing reads only what you allow, and you get a receipt for every read.
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2,912 days, since 2016
- photos12,418
- people214
- memories188
- places835
- days2,912
- thoughts1,906
- trips27
- health1,088
never leaves your mac.
the library, the index and the model all live on your disk. no tracking, no analytics, nothing phoning home. the only two network calls are , and both are disclosed. four tests every decision has to pass:
- the box
- does it run on your mac? all of it. the library, the index, the model.
- the exit
- can you leave with everything? one export, any time. it is your data twice over.
- the breach
- if alden were compromised, what leaks? nothing, because nothing is anywhere else.
- neutrality
- does it favour one ai? no. alden is the layer before the assistant, not another assistant.
any model of your choosing. only what you allow.
alden is model agnostic: claude desktop, lm studio, cursor, claude code or any mcp client plugs in. you choose what each one may read, category by category, and every read is logged.
pick an ai · tap a colour to let it cross, or keep it home
claude desktop may read photos, calendar, people and places. health, messages, location and chats stay home.
throw everything in.
thirty companies already hold years of you. the law says they have to hand it over. drop the exports in, and alden sorts them on your mac, not on a server.
soon: strava, google photos, instagram, mail
browse it like folders. wander it like a river.
browse is the rigid state: photos, 2024, july, a day, with the path at your feet. wander is the fluid one: every bucket its own current, from your whole life down to one afternoon.
362 days in 2024
ask it anything. it answers from your life.
ask in alden, and any model of your choosing answers from your life: apple's on-device intelligence built in, or whichever local or cloud model you plug in. every answer cites what it read, in the colour of where it came from. the built-in one never leaves your mac.
you spent the afternoon by the water at fenwick islanda placegoogle timeline · 3 visits, then had dinner with ondreja personcontacts and messages · 236 days together at the fenwick crab housea placegoogle timeline · first visit. you took 9 photosphotosthe photos on this mac · july 2, 2025, walked 11,204 steps, and slept 7h 12ma health measureapple health · the night of july 2 that night.
stayed on this mac · on-device · 3.4 s
bring any model of your choosing.
alden is the layer before the assistant, not another assistant, and it is model agnostic by design: it serves your library over mcp, read-only, nine tools, to whichever model you point at it. swap the model whenever you like; your library stays put, and so do its permissions.
- aldenapple's on-device model, built in
- lm studioany local model, add the config
- claude desktopinstalls in one click
- cursorcopy a snippet
- claude codecopy a snippet
- any mcp clientthe same nine tools
free during the alpha.
a mac app for macos 26. your data stays where it is; you decide who reads it.
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