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Sapota is a voice companion for iPhone that keeps what you say, notices what keeps coming back, and never lets a byte leave the phone.
The story
Thoughts turn up while you’re driving or lying awake, and an app you have to go and find is an app you won’t use. Sapota listens from the Back Tap, the Action Button, Control Centre, the Lock Screen, or Siri, transcribes on the phone with Apple’s on‑device speech engine, and stops when you stop. Over weeks it gathers what you said into threads, reads the week back every Sunday in your own words, follows up on the dates you mentioned, and, if you allow it, reads sleep and heart signals from Apple Health to go easier on you after a bad night.
Two decisions set it apart. First, nothing leaves the phone: no account, no server, no analytics, no third‑party code, a claim anyone can check against the binary. Second, it is deliberately hard to be nagged by: at most three prompts a week, quiet hours from 10pm to 8am, and it stops a kind of message on its own after four are ignored. There are no streaks and no badges.
For people in therapy, Sapota can turn a stretch of weeks into a single page for the room, made on the phone and shared only by them.
Facts
| Name | Sapota (sa‑PO‑ta), after the soft brown fruit that is only good once it has had time to soften |
|---|---|
| Platform | iPhone, iOS 26 and later. Apple Intelligence is optional; every feature has an on‑device plain path |
| Price | Free during the beta. Capture stays free at launch; deeper features become a one‑time unlock. No subscription, ever |
| Privacy | No data collected. No networking frameworks in the binary. App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected |
| Built with | Apple’s SpeechAnalyzer, Foundation Models, HealthKit State of Mind, App Intents, Controls, Live Activities, SwiftData |
| Maker | Rithik Porandla, solo founder |
| Status | TestFlight beta, September 2026. App Store to follow |
What it is not
Sapota is not therapy, not a medical device, and not a journal in the usual sense. It does not diagnose. If something a person says sounds like they may be at risk, it shows a fixed message with one‑tap access to a crisis line rather than trying to counsel them.
Assets
App icon, 512 px PNG · The mark, SVG. The wordmark is “sapota”, always lowercase, set in Instrument Serif. Screenshots and a short film of a locked‑phone capture are on the way.
