Mobile app · AI chatbots & assistants

TheMachine

Your proactive AI assistant: reads your email, chats, calendar and phone, turns what matters into to-dos, prepares the work, and only sends what you approve. Open source, self-hosted or hosted.

Completely free
Android
Open source
No account

Overview

TheMachine is an AI chat assistant, available on Android.

Features described in its GitHub repository: self-hosting on your own server, voice input and commands.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Your proactive AI assistant: reads your email, chats, calendar and phone, turns what matters into to-dos, prepares the work, and only sends what you approve.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Open source, self-hosted or hosted.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Paying, booking or submitting waits for your yes. • Promises: what you promised and what others promised you, tracked until it's kept. • Talk: a live spoken conversation about a to-do or anything else (with OpenAI),…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of TheMachine is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (AGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) — 10 November 2026
Last technical check: 10 November 2026
Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub Salesflare/TheMachine (AGPL-3.0-only)

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