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Apoorv Darshan
Apoorv Darshan

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Local-context chats: save conversations and feed them back in

Memory in companion apps is usually a black box on someone's server. Scowld keeps it simple and local.

Past chats are saved locally on your device. And they're not just history you scroll through: you can select a past chat as context for future replies. So if you had a great conversation yesterday, you can bring it back into today's session and the companion picks up the thread.

What this gives you in practice:

  • A growing set of conversations stored on device, not in my cloud.
  • The ability to choose which past chat informs the next reply, so context is something you steer rather than something that silently accumulates.
  • Pairing this with the character system prompt (set in character settings) so the companion's personality and its recalled context work together.

This fits the rest of the design: keys in the iOS Keychain, choices in local preferences, chats stored locally. You decide what the companion remembers and when.

Scowld is on the App Store now. Have a conversation worth keeping, then keep it.

https://apps.apple.com/in/app/scowld-ai-voice-companion/id6760672848

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