ToastyAI — Private messaging for iPhone & iPad

Invite an AI like you’d invite a friend.

Not an app you switch to. A participant — it chats in the thread, talks on your calls, and posts live cards that update themselves. And every personal chat stays end-to-end encrypted: messages only you can read, keys anyone can check.

AI agents

Meet the newest member of the group chat.

Invite an AI into a conversation the same way you’d add a friend. It reads the thread, answers in it, speaks up on voice calls, and hangs out until you remove it.

You invite it. Your chats, your guest list.

iMessage forwards your messages. ToastyAI answers them.

Meet the agents →

The short version

Private by architecture, not by promise.

Sealed on your iPhone

Your personal chats are encrypted on your device and opened only on your friends’ devices. Our server relays scrambled data it cannot read.

How? →

Keys on the public record

Every encryption key is written to a signed, append-only log. A swapped key can’t hide.

How? →

Quiet lock screen

On encrypted chats, your notification shows a lock — never your words.

How? →

Make it yours

Your chats, dressed how you like them.

Set a background and everyone in the chat sees it — any member can change it, group or one-on-one. Give the group its own icon. Pin your people and your group chats to the top as favorites.

Backgrounds and icons stay in the chrome — messages themselves stay sealed end-to-end, same as always.

A group chat named Weekend Crew with a warm custom background, a mountain group icon, and amber message bubbles
Shared backgrounds — one member sets it, the whole chat gets it.
The Chats screen with a favorites row pinning saltimus, the Weekend Crew group, Maya, and Dev to the top
Favorites — people and whole group chats.

Live cards

Messages that refuse to sit still.

Most messages are frozen the moment they’re sent. ToastyAI’s live cards update themselves in place — a scoreboard that ticks score, inning, and count right inside the thread. No refresh, no re-asking; the chat keeps up so you don’t have to.

Live cards, exactly as they appear in a ToastyAI chat.

The assistant home screen asking How can I help, Josh? with quick prompts for calendar and news
Your assistant, front and center.
A chat where saltimus posts a Top Stories card; every headline is a tappable link to its source
Headlines that link to the actual story — every time.
A live Premier League scoreboard card showing Arsenal 2, Chelsea 1 in the 73rd minute
Scores that keep themselves current.
A weather card for Austin with an active Flood Watch safety banner and current conditions
Weather — including the warnings that matter.
A markets card with S&P 500, Nasdaq, Dow, Bitcoin, and Ethereum prices and daily change
Markets at a glance.
An hour-by-hour forecast card for tomorrow with temperatures and rain chances
Hour-by-hour, right in the thread.

Real screenshots. Demo conversations.

Plans

From group chatter to an actual plan.

Ask in the thread, and saltimus turns the back-and-forth into a clean, keepable plan — who’s doing what, when to leave, what not to forget. Copy it, keep it, or toss it when the weekend’s over.

Built from your chat, not from a template.

A saved plan titled Cabin Weekend Action Plan with sections for before Friday, Friday, and Saturday
A weekend, sorted in one card.

Key transparency

The log that keeps us honest.

World-readable — check it yourself, no account needed →

Every messaging app asks you to trust that the server handed you the right keys. We don’t ask.

ToastyAI writes every user’s encryption keys to a signed, append-only public log — like a notary’s book with numbered pages. If our own server ever tried to slip a different key into your conversation, the log wouldn’t match and the swap would be detected. We built a system where even we get caught.

Trust is good. Proof is better.

Go one level deeper →

key-transparency.log
#4815key for @samsigned ✓
#4816key for @lenasigned ✓
#4817key for @arjunsigned ✓
#4818key for @mayasigned ✓
#4819key for @kaisigned ✓
#4820key for @noorsigned ✓
#4821key for @mayasigned ✓

That’s the point. It can’t happen quietly.

End-to-end encryption

A new key for every message.

Each message is locked with a fresh key, and the keys only march forward. Steal one and you’ve read one message — not your history, not your future. Cryptographers call it a double ratchet. We call it Tuesday.

We didn’t invent our own crypto — we implemented the battle-tested Olm/Megolm double-ratchet design, in Rust. Applies to personal chats.

Incognito

Some chats shouldn’t be saved at all.

Open an incognito chat with saltimus and it’s off the record from the first word: no history kept, nothing carried into other conversations, and the whole thing is deleted the moment you close it.

Plan the surprise party. Ask the awkward question. It’s gone when you’re done — not saved, gone when you close it isn’t a tagline, it’s written right at the top of every incognito chat.

An incognito chat with saltimus; the note at the top of the thread reads Not saved — gone when you close it
Off the record, by design.

Emoji verification

Trust, verified with emoji.

Want certainty you’re talking to your person and not an impostor in the middle? Compare a short emoji sequence — in person or on a call. If they match, the math checks out.

Security checks shouldn’t feel like tax forms.

It’s called SAS verification — details on the security page.

Cross-signing & encrypted backup

New phone. Same history. Zero server access.

Sign in on a new iPhone, approve it from a device you already trust, and your conversations come back — decrypted only on your hardware. Your key backup travels in a sealed envelope the server stores but can never open. At no step does the server ever see a key.

Voice & video

Calls that ring like calls.

Crisp voice and video — one friend or the whole group. And because ToastyAI is a real iPhone citizen, it rings on your lock screen even when the app is closed. Full-screen, swipe to answer, the way a call should feel.

  • 1:1 & group
  • Native iPhone ringing
  • AI joins by voice

Under the hood: WebRTC media, CallKit ringing.

Table stakes

And everything a messenger should already have.

The basics aren’t a pitch. They’re a baseline.

Group chats

The whole crew, one thread.

Media sharing

Photos and videos, right in the flow.

Typing indicators

See the reply coming.

Reactions

Any emoji, right on the bubble — your recent picks stay on deck.

Favorites

Pin your people — and your group chats.

Friend codes

Add friends with a short code you share yourself — no phone-number harvesting required.

TOAST-4F2K

No ads. No tracking. Nothing to sell.

The most honest privacy policy is an architecture that can’t betray you.

We don’t mine your chats — we can’t read them.

We don’t sell your attention — there are no ads to sell it to.

We don’t harvest your data — the design leaves nothing to harvest.

Read the privacy policy →

Warm chats. Cold cryptography.

ToastyAI is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.