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Valin
Your private memory for everything you save.
31 followers
Your private memory for everything you save.
31 followers
For people who save videos, posts, articles and documents across apps and can't find them when they need them, Valin is the private memory app that understands what you save, down to what's said in a video, so you can find information you don't even remember saving. Unlike other AI bookmarking apps, Valin's AI runs entirely on your device, so only you can see what you save. No account, no cloud, no AI subscription.
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Hi Product Hunt,
Valin started with my wife: she saves recipes, kids' activities, books and places people recommend, plus private things like the results from the kids' latest medical tests. They were spread across several apps and conversations, and she needed one place where she could find them again, easily.
I had left my job leading AI engineering at a large cybersecurity company and wanted to see how far on-device AI on an iPhone could go, so I built her one place for all of it. It was a lot harder than I expected.
How it works
- You share something to Valin from any app: a video, a post, a link, a PDF, a screenshot or a voice memo.
- Valin's AI reads it, transcribes the audio and pulls out the details, such as places, prices, steps and measurements - all on your device.
- Later you can search the way you remember it, or ask a question. Answers come from your own saves and list the saves they used, so you can check them.
- Related saves are grouped into collections, and you decide what stays in each one.
Privacy
Because some saves are private and confidential, Valin's AI runs on your iPhone or iPad. You don't need an account, nothing is tracked, and no cloud AI reads your saves. There's no limit on how many saves you keep and no AI subscription. Valin goes online only to fetch what you save and to download its models (during onboarding). If you turn it on, it will sync with iCloud for access to all your devices.
Requirements
iPhone 15 Pro or newer, an iPad with M1 or newer, or the iPad mini with A17 Pro. The first launch downloads about 3.4 GB of models
Feedback I'd find most useful
1. Is the 3.4 GB download a deal breaker for you?
2. Where did the first ten minutes feel slow or confusing?
3. Search for something you saved recently, using the words you'd naturally use. Did Valin find it?
4. Which kinds of saves does Valin handle badly?
It's in public TestFlight beta at valin.ai where you can find all the details.
Love that everything stays on the phone. Is a Mac or Android version planned? Most of what I save starts on my laptop.
@onat_atmaca Happy to hear that! Mac version is in progress. For now there is no Android in the plans mostly because we have been focusing on getting the experience right and releasing on iOS.
Happy to revisit later on.
Running everything on-device is a big deal here, especially when people are saving personal documents. Privacy shouldn't have to be an afterthought for a memory app. Congrats!
@henry_habib I come from a security background so privacy is extremely important. Take it for a spin and let me know.
Searching the spoken words inside a saved video is the feature that would rescue my overgrown pile of bookmarks, because I always remember what someone said and never which app I saved it in.
@karimbenkeroum Try it out and let me know!