A local Mac app that reads your iMessage history to surface who you've lost touch with - no cloud, no account, one-time
Trust first, since this reads your messages: it runs 100% on your Mac. You point it at the one Messages folder it needs (no Full Disk Access), it indexes locally, nothing is ever uploaded, no account, no cloud - and you can wipe the index anytime. The story: a friend built a small tool for himself that read his iMessage history and surfaced the people he'd quietly drifted from. One night we loaded it with our own thread going back years - the first messages we ever sent each other, forgotten group chats, plans that never happened. That became Say hey. Problem: Messages stores everything but remembers nothing. Threads bury as new ones come in, and its search is genuinely bad. Say hey turns your history into a short daily list: who to text, what you last said, and why now - with the exact message in front of you. Comparison: vs Messages: an inbox that stores everything and finds nothing. It won't tell you who's drifting or what you owe, and search chokes on anything past a few weeks. Say hey filters by person, direction, and time - and actually finds things. vs personal CRMs (Dex, Clay): powerful but high maintenance, and your relationship data lives in their cloud. Say hey reads what's already on your Mac - nothing to log, nothing uploaded. Pricing: $19.99 one-time, no subscription. Native SwiftUI, not Electron. App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/say-hey-message-memory/id6767099766 Free codes via a quick "what kind of friend are you?" quiz, while they last: https://spark.ooo/sayhey/quiz I'm one of the two devs. If you grab a code, come back and show us something funny it dug up - the first load is a trip.
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Hi claude
It could have easily been avoided by a simple prompt such as “Avoid using serif-fonts and orange colour pallettes”. And yet OP was so lazy to not even do that. Absolutely disappointing tbh. Everything about this just screams Claude.
yeah that's fair, we did use claude design for the branding. The part I spent the most time on is the engine that digests your messages (deterministic) and works out who you forgot to text. And the search feature which is awesome. Everyone knows iMessage search is super frustrating.
Pls add support Telegram
We’d love to but not sure if possible. I considered WhatsApp support as well but its complicated
As everyone else has said, the design definitely needs a bit of work but the functionality is pretty cool. Good luck!
Thank you!
Changing the design shouldn’t be too difficult or time consuming. Just find some app reference designs you like and put your own spin on it. Claude is terrible about wanting every website or app that it builds to look the same so you have to be intentional about the design to avoid it.
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Absolutely not. No way. Nope. Nuh uh.
Can this be done for Whatsapp?
Possibly, but I don’t think you can get it on the App Store
Apparently, I'm "The Anchor" .... Thanks for the code! Really appreciate! 🙏🙌
For sure! Hope you find it useful
We’re supposed to believe your AI slop is secure?
You should change the design like everyone on this comment session said
Hi Claude Design indeed!!! I have an app looks exactly the same, even the same fonts!!! It's just for me, not trying to sell it, but yeah, it's starting to be very noticeable when everything looks and reads the same, even emails to be honest. I think authenticity will be hot coming up, which is good for us humans!!!
beeper.com and https://www.heynox.com/ and me.sh have this beat at a larger scale. a couple people could still buy an indie one time app just for iMessages, but the value prop is not as significant as these well established / well funded companies.
Please fix the numbers in the title, it's frustrating me.
What do you mean?
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Function is in iOS 27. Why run a 3rd party you can’t trust?
I wouldn’t trust a random cloud app with my messages either... but Say hey is in the Mac App Store and runs local: no account, no cloud sync, no server. Your messages never leave your Mac. The iOS 27 thing is interesting point... overlap is real, but I think they’re solving different problems. Apple's feature looks more like “add this to reminders/notes” suggestions while you’re in Messages or Mail. Say hey helps find buried conversations, people you meant to get back to, and our search kicks Messages' ass
Just got the free code via the survey. Excited to test it out. I think it's a cool idea.
The trust-first framing works on me, local plus no account is exactly what I want from apps that read something as personal as my messages. Scoping it to the one Messages folder instead of Full Disk Access is a nice touch too. Question about "what you owe": does that catch threads where the last message is theirs and I just never replied? A daily nudge for exactly those would be the killer feature for me, I'm terrible at that. And if you ever want this on iPhone without breaking your pitch: CloudKit private database (or NSPersistentCloudKitContainer if you're on Core Data) syncs through the user's own iCloud. No account on your side, no server you run, you as the dev can't even read the data. Opt-in of course, but it keeps the "nothing leaves your control" story fully intact.