BuenjoA tiny friend for your Mac.
Buenjo walks your screens, keeps your day on track, and gets into all sorts of trouble. Private by design: it works things out on your Mac, with no AI service.
Free to start
Meet Buenjo
Small. Busy. Easily distracted.
Buenjo lives along the bottom of your screens and treats your windows like a playground. It reacts to what you do, and it's never short of visitors.
Out for a stroll
Along the bottom of your screens, across every monitor.
On your window
It hops onto the window you’re using and settles in its corner. Now and then it puts on a little act: a somersault along the edge, juggling till a ball lands on its head, a yo-yo that comes back into its nose, a paper plane that loops home, dozing off the edge, or a spider scare. Never in Work mode, focus or meetings.
Company
A bird lands on its head. A butterfly drops by. A paper airplane arrives with a note.
Up top, Max!
Their friend Max stops by for a high five.
Actually helpful
Your day, handled.
Talk to Buenjo in the chat window, in plain words. It keeps track, and it speaks up at the right moment.
MorningPro
A briefing when you sit down
Today's meetings, what's due or overdue, and how yesterday went.
Midday
Just say it
Type
remind me to stretch in 20 minutes
in the chat window, and it's set. With Pro, to-dos get days, times and repeats too (remind me to send the invoice Friday 3pm
), and you can click the mic and say it.
On time
It comes to tell you
When a reminder's due, Buenjo leaps onto the window you're using and holds up a big sign board for a few seconds, with a chime even when the sound is off. Click the board to put it down. In a meeting, it stays put, quietly, and holds the board still.
MeetingPro
A heads-up, link ready
Five minutes before a meeting, Buenjo offers to open the video call link. Say
join my meeting
and it opens. Then it goes quiet.
EveningPro
A wrap-up to close the day
It comes to your window with a “That’s a wrap!” board: what got done, what's left, your focus time and your breaks.
Also on hand: work timers, water and stand-up nudges, mood check-ins, a gratitude journal, time at the computer, battery warnings, finished downloads, and Mac controls for volume, dark mode, opening folders and finding files.
Calling the web (Pro): a task with a day and time can call a REST API or a webhook when it's due, such as a webhook every Monday at 9:00, a deploy hook at 5 pm, or a message to your team's chat. Or type a call in the chat (GET https://…
) and see the reply there and then. Calls go straight from your Mac to the address you chose, never through our servers, and they can change things at that address. What's sent, and where.
Tools
Handy, too.
Ask in plain words. It does the Mac chores, with a bit of a show.
Close and quit
It shoots a window’s close button with a bow (the default), a slingshot or a rifle. It can quit an app and answer its “Save changes?” for you.
Windows, arranged
Two apps side by side, one snapped to half the screen, one filling the screen or shrunk down. It pulls a big lever and every window glides into a grid, columns, rows, or one main window with the rest beside it; “put my windows back” undoes it. Or keep just Notes on your screen and put the rest away.
Desk setups
Say “save my windows as coding” and it snaps a picture of your desk and rolls it into a blueprint. Later, “set up for coding” opens the apps and glides every window back into place, and tucks the rest into the Dock. Your setups are saved only on your Mac.
Gadgets
A screenshot, keeping your Mac awake, a colour picker (the hex is copied for you), “what was I working on?”, finding your cursor, volume and mute.
Tidy up
Desktop screenshots swept into a folder, Downloads untouched for 30 days moved aside, desktop icons hidden while you present. Files are only moved, never deleted, and “put it back” undoes it.
Stickies, timers, a spotlight
Sticky notes that stay put, an hourglass timer, and a spotlight that dims everything except one window, or rolls after whichever window is in front. Sitting in a window’s corner, it may offer a hand: tidying when windows pile up, saving a layout, or the spotlight just before a meeting.
Say it your way
Talk to Buenjo the way you talk. It understands plenty of ways to say things, all worked out on your Mac. For example:
- “put Notes and Calendar side by side”
- “close TextEdit without saving”
- “tidy my desktop”
- “swing it!”
- “show me your moves”
- “catch some z’s”
Most tools are Pro, and a Free account gets daily tool tries. Some ask for a macOS permission the first time (Accessibility, Screen Recording, or access to a folder). Buenjo never moves your mouse.
Signing in
Signs you in, when you let it.
Say “log me into github” and Buenjo opens the site in your browser and fills in your username and password for you.
Beta. The vault hasn’t been reviewed by an independent security firm. Whether to use it is up to you.
- Off until you turn it on. Switch on “Let Buenjo sign me in to websites from my vault” in the vault’s Settings. Until then, it won’t.
- Only on the right site. It fills in a login only on the site saved with it (or one of its subdomains), over https. Never a look-alike address, a frame from another site, a search box, or a “Sign in with Google” button.
- Kept on your Mac. Your logins are kept in a vault encrypted on your Mac (Argon2id and XChaCha20-Poly1305), unlocked with your passphrase or Touch ID. It’s never uploaded, and it works offline.
- In your browser. Works with the Mac’s built-in browser and the other popular Mac browsers. If a site in the built-in browser ignores the filled-in password, it’s copied for you to paste instead, and cleared after 30 seconds.
It fills the page through macOS Accessibility, on your Mac: no keys are typed and the mouse isn’t moved. It can’t tell whether a site at the right address has itself been compromised. It opens only with your passphrase, your recovery key, or Touch ID if you’ve turned it on. Buenjo’s support holds none of them, so it can’t open your vault or get its contents back for you.
Focus time
Shh. Focusing.
Start 25 minutes of focus and Buenjo sits quietly in the top corner of your window, with a little “Focusing” sign. With Pro, it also nudges you back from distracting apps.
In a meeting? It goes quiet by itself while a meeting app is on screen or a calendar meeting is on, and waits it out at a little beach.
Three modes
As busy as you like.
Pick a mode to suit the day. Switch any time.
Companion mode: Stays on your active window, with little gestures, visitors and dancing to music.
Work mode: Sits at its desk and keeps quiet. Reminders, meetings and to-dos carry on, and nothing fun happens of its own accord.
Play mode: Roams free around the screen and never gets onto windows on its own. About twice as many surprises, leaning to the big shows.
The shows
14 shows and counting.
Every so often, Buenjo puts on a show. Some start on their own, and you can ask for any of them in Fun → Shows and moves, or in the chat.
BMX show
Ramps, backflips and tailwhips across all your monitors, with a score at the end.
Tornado
A tornado spins Buenjo up, then pinballs them off your window edges.
Eagle
It circles, it dives, and off they go, dangling across your screens.
Diving show
Five dives off a springboard, scored by three judges. Belly flops splash.
Tightrope walk
A rope strung between two of your real windows. Move a window and the rope follows.
Human cannonball
A crash-test dummy goes first. Then BOOM: across every monitor, aiming for the bullseye.
Magic show
The Great Buenjini: a rabbit from a hat (or a pigeon), levitation, and sawing Max in half.
Skydiving
Out of a plane, a freefall flip, the parachute, and a landing on the bullseye.
Rock concert
Guitar, a drum solo, pyro on the speakers, and a stage dive into the crowd.
Rocket launch
A cardboard rocket, a countdown from ten, lift-off, and back with a moon rock.
Kaiju attack
A giant monster foot stomps across your screens. A cookie saves the day.
Oops! The Stone
A stone bounces, flies at you and “cracks” your screen. (It doesn’t really.)
Bandit chase
A bandit snatches something and runs, over your windows and across your monitors.
Buenjo Swing
Buenjo suits up as a superhero and swings from window to window: a grin on the swing, a look of surprise on every flip.
More shows on the way
And then some
Weather, games and homes.
Snow on your desktop, games you play with the mouse, and six places to call home.
Weather
Snow
And yes, they build a snowman.
Rain and storm
Up goes the umbrella.
Fireworks
Cheering and clapping.
The UFO
An abduction. Briefly.
Also autumn leaves, fog, a rainbow, wind, meteors, confetti, bubbles, balloons, disco and an earthquake. Seasonal ones arrive in their season.
Games
Catch the Stars
Lead them with the mouse.
Balloon Pump
Let go before it pops.
Fishing
Click when the bobber dips.
Ball games
Aim at soccer, golf, basketball and bowling.
Plus Sky Shooter, Bandit Bonk and Dogfight, and rides: skateboard, skiing, snowboarding and surfing.
Homes
The bench
The nipa hut (bahay kubo)
The lookout tower
The campfire
The moon swing
The hot-air balloon
Six home bases to pick from, the nipa hut among them. Between outings, Buenjo heads home for a sit.
The long way back
Sometimes the walk back across the screen becomes a trip: a convertible, a biplane that catches fire (then a parachute), a swim with a shark fin behind, or a hot-air balloon.
Plus dances (the groove, the backslide, the arm shuffle), a dog and a cat, a broom that tidies the desktop, a lasso, desk gadgets, and window antics like hide and seek. You can even steer Buenjo like a platform game with the arrow keys.
Private by design
Your day stays on your Mac.
It goes online only for updates, What's new, your account and plan, feedback you send, and API calls you set up or type out (Pro), which go to the address you chose.
No AI service
Its replies are rule-based, and they stay on your Mac.
Worked out on your Mac
What you say to it is understood on your Mac, not sent to a server.
Never watches your typing
The helpers read only local things: your to-dos and reminders, your calendar if you allow it, your battery, and the front app's name.
No ads
And no selling data. Ever.
It speaks its lines with macOS's built-in voices, on your Mac. It can even use your own Personal Voice, if you've set one up.
With Pro, you can talk instead of typing. Apple's speech recognition turns your words into text on your Mac: nothing is sent to Apple or to us, nothing is recorded, and the mic is on only between your two clicks. It works where your Mac can recognize your language on its own.
Plans
Free to start.
Buenjo is free, with or without an account. Pro unlocks everything, with a 14-day free trial.
Without an account
Nothing to sign up for
Free
- The companion
- Everyday helpers: reminders, to-dos, focus time, nudges, Mac controls, alerts
- A few shows, weather, games and tools to try
Free account
Sign up in the app
Free
- Everything without an account
- More of the shows, weather, games and tools, with daily tool tries
- A calendar heads-up a day
Pro Everything
For the full Buenjo
$3.99 / month
Or $29.99 a year (save 37%).
- Everything in the free account
- Morning briefing and evening wrap-up
- Dated to-dos, meeting prep, focus nudges, history and wellbeing
- Unlimited calendar heads-ups, and Work mode's working hours
- Talk instead of typing (mic)
- API calls from tasks and the chat (webhooks, REST)
- Every show, weather, game, ride, trip, dance, pet and home, plus capes and special hats
14-day free trial. Start it in the app. It needs a confirmed email and no card.
Subscribing happens in the app: open Account → Subscribe. You pay through Stripe, and you can manage or cancel any time from Manage subscription. Prices in USD.
Questions
Is it free?
Yes, to start. Buenjo is free without an account, and a free account adds a little more. Pro unlocks everything for $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year. Pro comes with a 14-day free trial, with no card needed. Compare the plans.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Buenjo runs on your Mac and works offline. It goes online for update checks, What's new, your account and plan checks (your plan keeps working for up to 3 days offline), and feedback when you send it; with Pro, also the API calls you set up or type out.
Does it use AI?
No, and that's on purpose. Buenjo's replies are rule-based and worked out on your Mac. There's no AI service, and what you say to it isn't sent anywhere, except an API call you type out yourself (Pro), which goes to the address you give.
Can I talk to it instead of typing?
With Pro, yes. Click the mic beside the chat's message box and speak; your words appear as you talk. Click again, press Return, or just stop talking for a moment to send. It uses Apple's speech recognition on your Mac, so your voice never leaves your Mac and nothing is recorded. It needs a Mac that can recognize your language on its own; if yours can't, the mic doesn't start.
What does it see on my Mac?
Only what its helpers need: your to-dos and reminders, your calendar if you allow it, your battery, and the name of the app in front. It never watches what you type. Read the privacy policy.
Which Macs?
Any Mac with macOS 11 Big Sur or later, Intel or Apple silicon. Buenjo is built natively for the Mac, and it's Mac-only.
Can I use it on two Macs?
An account works on one Mac at a time. You can move it to another Mac.
How do I cancel?
In the app, go to Account → Manage subscription. You can cancel any time. See the refund and cancellation policy.
Does it slow my Mac down?
It's made to keep out of the way. If you want it to settle down, switch to Work mode, where it sits at its desk, or mute its sounds, any time.
Can I turn the fun off while working?
Yes. In Work mode, Buenjo sits quietly at its desk and nothing fun happens of its own accord, while reminders, meetings and to-dos carry on. In any mode, it also goes quiet by itself during meetings and focus time.
Has the vault had a security review?
Not an independent one. The vault is a beta: it hasn't been reviewed by an independent security firm, and whether to use it is up to you. The app says so too, before you make a vault and in its settings.
Do my vault logins ever leave my Mac?
The vault itself doesn't: it's a file encrypted on your Mac, never uploaded, and nothing in it goes to Buenjo's servers. A login you use does go to its own website: when you let Buenjo sign you in, it fills in that site's sign-in form in your browser, as if you'd typed it. And a key you pick for an API call (Pro) goes to the address that call is sent to. Neither happens unless you've set it up or asked. The details.
Say hi to Buenjo.
A tiny friend for your Mac, keeping your day on track. Privately.
Free to start