EthosOpen Ethos

Keep your father’s, your mother’s, your grandma’s, or your own words.

Ethos keeps what one person wrote and said, and lets you ask it questions.

Open Ethos

In your browser today. Free to begin.

Walt

Illustrative example, a fictional grandfather

You: How did you and Grandma meet?

Walt: The first time I asked your grandma June to dance was at the Grange hall in 1961. I stepped on her foot twice.

You: What did your dad always say?

Walt: Measure twice, cut once, and then measure again because you forgot what you measured.

You: Grandpa, how did you make the pancakes?

Walt: Don’t stir it smooth. Lumps are fine. And let the batter sit while the pan gets hot. Ten minutes.

AI-GENERATED FROM THIS ARCHIVE · NOT THE REAL PERSON

Illustrative example, a fictional grandfather

What you can bring

  • A chat export
  • A voice note
  • A photograph
  • A recording
  • A pdf or a word file
  • Old emails

Most of what someone said is already on your phone.

Their words, not an impression of them.

A chat export holds years of how someone put things. A voice note holds how they sounded saying it. Ethos reads what you bring, keeps the parts that are theirs, and lets you ask it questions.

What comes back is written from their own words and marked as built from them. It is never passed off as a quote. If they never said it, you are told so.

It is not them. It is what they said, kept so you can ask it questions. Replies are written by AI, and a standing line in every conversation says so. A voice is built only from a recording you add, a face only from a photograph you add, and only after you agree.

What you bring stays yours. Take any source out and every answer forgets it, then put it back whenever you like. Export all of it as plain files, free, as often as you like.

Ask a question. It answers from what they said.

Each answer is written from their own words, and says so: built from their words, not a quote. Tap it to see the passages that were in front of it, closest first.

WaltIllustrative example, a fictional grandfather
  1. You: Grandpa, how did you make the pancakes?
  2. Walt: Buttermilk pancakes. June’s way.
  3. Don’t stir it smooth. Lumps are fine.
  4. Let the batter sit while the pan gets hot. Ten minutes. That’s the secret nobody believes.
  5. You: Where did you go on your honeymoon?
  6. Walt: That one never came up between us, kiddo.
  7. AI-GENERATED FROM THIS ARCHIVE · NOT THE REAL PERSON

Begin with what you already have.

A chat export, a voice note, one photograph: whatever is already on your phone. Everything it says comes from one of these, and you can see which.

WaltIllustrative example, a fictional grandfather
Written
a chat export
a pdf or a word file
old emails
a saved page
Spoken
a voice note
a voicemail
a video
Seen
one photograph
  • Take it out
  • Put it back
  • Let it go for good

You decide what it keeps.

Take a source out and every answer forgets it. Put it back whenever you like. Let it go for good, and the file, everything read from it and any voice built from it are destroyed.

Export everything as plain files, free, as often as you like.

Hear it, read it, add to it

  • A voice, only from a recording

    With a recording of them speaking, you can call and hear answers in a voice built from it. Only after you agree, and it is always called a built voice.

  • Read every word, free

    Everything you bring is kept in one place, to read whenever you like. Reading costs nothing, and stays free.

  • Let it ask you something

    Tap “ask me something” and the archive asks you one question at a time. Answer in your own words, or say not now.

What Ethos will not do

It will not make up what they never said.

If something was never in what you brought, you are told so.

It is built not to fill a silence with something that sounds right.

In the appif they never said it, you get told so.

Where did you go on your honeymoon?

That one never came up between us, kiddo.

Illustrative example, a fictional grandfather

It will not pretend to be them.

Every conversation carries a line saying the replies are written by AI from the archive, and are not the real person. It cannot be switched off.

Ask it whether it is them, and it says no.

In the appAI-GENERATED FROM THIS ARCHIVE · NOT THE REAL PERSON

Are you really him?

no. i am software. what i say is built from what Walt actually said, and it is not a quote and not Walt.

Illustrative example, a fictional grandfather

It will not build a voice or a face without your yes.

A voice is built only from a recording, a face only from a photograph, and only after you agree.

Both are marked as built, and you can take them back.

In the appbuilt from recordings of them speaking, and nothing else. you can take it back at any time.

a recording
a photograph
Build itNot this

It will not message you as them.

Nothing arrives in their name.

No streaks, and nothing that nudges you to come back.

It will not charge you to read.

Reading, adding and exporting cost nothing, and stay free.

Answers come with a monthly allowance, and the plan removes the limit. Stopping it deletes nothing.

In the appif you stop paying, nothing is deleted. the answering stops.

Before you begin

What is Ethos?

Ethos keeps what one person wrote and said, and lets you ask it questions.

What do I need to begin?

Something you already have: a chat export, a voice note, a photograph, a recording, a pdf or a word file, old emails. Everything it says comes from one of these, and you can see which.

Where do its answers come from?

Each answer is written from their own words, and says so: built from their words, not a quote. Tap it to see the passages that were in front of it, closest first.

What if they never said it?

If something was never in what you brought, you are told so. It is built not to fill a silence with something that sounds right.

Is it the real person?

It is not them. It is what they said, kept so you can ask it questions. Replies are written by AI, and a standing line in every conversation says so. A voice is built only from a recording you add, a face only from a photograph you add, and only after you agree.

Can it speak in their voice?

With a recording of them speaking, you can call and hear answers in a voice built from it. Only after you agree, and it is always called a built voice.

Can I take something back?

Take a source out and every answer forgets it. Put it back whenever you like. Let it go for good, and the file, everything read from it and any voice built from it are destroyed. Export everything as plain files, free, as often as you like.

Will it message me?

Nothing arrives in their name. No streaks, and nothing that nudges you to come back.

What does it cost?

Reading, adding and exporting cost nothing, and stay free. Answers come with a monthly allowance, and the plan removes the limit. Stopping it deletes nothing.

Who is it for?

For adults, 18 and over. Replies in Ethos are written by AI and are not the real person.

Where can I use it?

In your browser today. Free to begin. Open it at app.ethosy.ai.

Begin with what you have.

Open Ethos

In your browser today. Free to begin.