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Pixel Buddy

Hold the power button and a pixel buddy hops onto your screen to help, with on-device AI or your own model.

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Pixel Buddy is a little pixel character that lives on your phone. Make it your phone’s assistant, hold the power button over any app, and it hops onto the screen to help. Talk or type: it answers in a speech bubble and can read the reply aloud.

What it does

  • Timers and alarms. A countdown ring pops up 10 seconds before a timer ends.
  • Phone helpers. Opens apps, turns the flashlight on and off, and tells you the time and your battery level. Directions, music, calls, calendar events and web searches are handed to the app that does them.
  • Messages, ready to send. It writes your WhatsApp, Telegram or SMS message, and you press Send.
  • Sees what you see. Summarizes the screen you’re on, explains a piece of text you point at, or looks through the camera at something you ask about.
  • Remembers. Your name and what you ask it to keep go in a diary you can read and clear.
  • Hands-free, if you like. Say “Hey Buddy” to call it. The wake phrase is heard on the phone itself.
  • A buddy with personality. Every pixel is drawn in code. Pick its shape, colors and personality, unlock costumes as you level up, and set it as your screen saver.

Choose its brain

  • On this phone. Download Google’s Gemma model. It works offline, and nothing you say leaves the phone.
  • Your own model. Connect an OpenAI-compatible server on your network, such as Ollama, LM Studio or vLLM, or use a key for OpenAI, OpenRouter or Google Gemini.
  • Auto. Your own server on your home Wi-Fi, the on-device model everywhere else.
  • Or decide later. Even with no model at all, the buddy sets timers, turns the flashlight on and off and opens apps.

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Private by design

Pixel Buddy needs no account and has no ads or analytics, and we run no server that receives your conversations. With the on-device brain, your conversations stay on your phone; with your own model, they go only to the server you chose. API keys are encrypted on the phone and never backed up, and crash reports are off unless you turn them on. See the privacy policy for details.