Most mornings, that’s an inbox in mid-chaos — forty unread, three ALL-CAPS, someone else’s emergency before your first coffee. Clear Morning flips it. While you slept, Dawn — a real assistant living on your Mac — read everything, lifted out what actually needs you, drafted replies in your voice, and left a note on your desk. You open email to a clear morning, and the clear head follows you all day: she keeps the desk while you work, booking the meeting, chasing the thread, watching for the reply. Because a clear morning is, by nature, a cloudless one: no servers between you and your mail, and the only thing that ever leaves your laptop is the email you choose to send.
Apple Silicon · macOS 14+ · the AI runs on your Mac, never the cloud · everything stored in an AES-256 encrypted vault
Works with Gmail today — more providers on the way
Hi Roy — sending a calendar hold for our quarterly review ahead of the renewal. 30 minutes, video link to follow.
Let me know if the time doesn't work and I'll move it.
— Priya
Press play and the demo loads from YouTube — the only third-party request this page can ever make, and only if you press it.
Dawn knows things no cloud service could be trusted to know. Who owes you a reply, and how long they usually take. What the cabin costs, and that you haven’t paid your share. Which “URGENT” senders never are. Cloud assistants stay strangers for a reason — every fact they learn about you is a fact somebody else is holding, so they’re built shallow: session-sized, forgetful, careful. Dawn has no somebody else. Her memory of your life is a file on your disk, inside an encrypted vault, readable by exactly one program: her.
“Pack your gym bag tonight — the building has no water 6–10 AM tomorrow, which collides with your 7 AM class.”
The morning brief. Dawn read a property-management notice against your calendar and said the useful thing — nobody programmed the water company into her.
“Northwind Legal has been waiting on that signature for 18 days.”
Open loops. Every promise your mailbox is holding, in both directions, with a running clock.
You searched “my share of the winter getaway.” She opened the chalet-deposit thread — not one word in common.
Semantic recall. Dawn remembers mail the way you do: by what it meant, not what it said.
“Your usual rhythm with Priya is about two hours. No rush from her is real rush.”
Reply rhythms. She knows the cadence of every correspondence you have — and when one breaks pattern.
“Booked: Thursday 2 PM. I went three rounds with his assistant. You clicked twice.”
Scoped autonomy. You sign a task with hard limits; Dawn negotiates inside them. Sending always ends with your click.
“Thursday 9:30 doesn’t work for me — I’m free Wednesday at 9 or 11, or Thursday at 10.”
Calendar-aware replies. When an email asks for time, one click drafts from your actual free/busy — and pushes back on a time you don’t have.
In the cloud, everything on this wall would be creepy.
On your Mac, it’s just a good assistant — because a fact that never leaves the machine is a fact only you and she have. That’s the whole trade, and it’s why she gets to be this good.
Every “AI email” product routes your mail through someone else's models. Clear Morning makes the opposite bet: the models come to your mail. And what sits on your disk is locked too — the entire mail store lives inside an AES-256 encrypted vault, sealed whenever the app is closed. The key is generated on your Mac and never leaves your Keychain.
Download for MacAsk them in plain words and they go to work — reading the thread, checking your calendar, building a profile on a new contact, getting a draft ready in your voice. They plan the whole errand, not just the literal ask.
The whole email experience — on-device, and built to take the weight off.
A note from Dawn over your day: what needs you first and why, your calendar as a live timeline, and the noise cleared in one undoable click.
Every incoming email is triaged, tagged, and summarized on-device — what needs you, what can wait, what's an invite, what's noise.
Replies grounded in your own past messages, the sender's dossier, and the actual thread — staged in the composer for you to edit and send.
Reads and writes your Apple Calendar, handles RSVPs, sends real invites — proposals first, your click always the commit.
Standing rules — “file the receipts”, “archive the newsletters” — run automatically or queue for your review. One click undoes a run.
Living dossiers for the people you write to: context, history, your notes. Built locally, editable, undoable.
Dawn runs on open-weights models served by our own runtime for Apple Silicon — including 2-bit ternary models small enough to leave your RAM to you. The app recommends the strongest brain your machine holds; you can switch anytime.
| Your Mac | Dawn's brain | Feels like |
|---|---|---|
| 32 GB and up | 35B mixture-of-experts | The full assistant — deep drafts, long context, fast |
| 24 GB | 35B, 2-bit compressed | The big brain in half the memory |
| 16 GB | 27B ternary or 4B hybrid | Nearly all of it, in about 6 GB of memory |
| 8 GB | 4B hybrid + 8B ternary fast brain | Snappy triage and planning; drafts hand off to the strongest brain you hold |
These are hard limits, not suggestions — the app refuses to load a brain your memory can't hold safely, so it can never freeze your Mac.
Standing on open work, credited gladly: Qwen3.6 35B by Alibaba (MLX build: LM Studio community) · Q2K-XL quant by Brooooooklyn · Ternary Bonsai 27B and 8B by PrismML · MLX by Apple.
Really all local. There is no server to send anything to — we didn't build one. The complete network behavior is the six-line list above, and you can verify it with Little Snitch; we'd be delighted if you did.
Your mail store sits inside an AES-256 encrypted vault that is sealed whenever the app isn't running. The key lives only in your Mac's Keychain, behind your login. Whoever has the disk has ciphertext. (Turn on FileVault too — belts and suspenders.)
Not unless you sign a task — and you sign the exact bounds: who they may write to (replies only, never anyone new), a cap on sends, an expiry. The card shows their plan before you sign; the final word always comes back to your desk. Everything else they prepare waits for your click.
Better than you think. Triage and planning run near-instantly on machines as small as 8 GB. Drafting quality scales with your RAM — the 35B writes like a sharp assistant; the small brains route brilliantly and hand the writing to a bigger model.
Free during the beta. No account, no card, nothing to sign up for — download it and go.
First run opens a full demo inbox — fake mail, simulated calendar, nothing of yours involved — so you can try everything before connecting Gmail.
Apple Silicon · macOS 14+ · free during beta · signed & notarized
Email should feel like stepping outside on a cloudless day. Light. Bright. Handled.