Chitti: Your Call Assistant

Chitti is a friendly cat with a headset that answers your phone when you can't.

Asleep? In a meeting? Switched off for the evening? Turn Chitti on, and calls stop interrupting you. Chitti picks up, talks to the caller kindly, and leaves you a note: who called, what they wanted, and a one-tap way to act on it.

THE PEOPLE WHO MATTER STILL GET THROUGH
• Pick the people who always ring through, like family. Their calls ring your phone as usual.
• If anyone calls twice within 3 minutes, Chitti lets it ring too, in case it's urgent.
• An emergency on the line (an accident, a hospital) sets off an alarm-style alert straight away.

WHEN CHITTI ANSWERS
• Sleeping: on a schedule, every night.
• Busy: for an hour, or while your calendar says you're in a meeting.
• Off the grid: until you're back.
• Strangers only: Chitti answers numbers that aren't in your contacts, any time.

WHAT CALLERS HEAR
Callers always hear that they're talking to Chitti, your AI assistant. People you know hear where you are and when you'll be back. Strangers only hear that you can't come to the phone, so nobody learns that a home is empty. Sales calls, loan offers and scams are politely turned away.

THE NOTE
Every call lands in your note as Needs you, Handled or Blocked, with what you need: Call back, Send the reply Chitti drafted, a reminder at the time they asked, or Add to calendar for a plan.

WATCH IT LIVE
While Chitti is on a call you can read along, tell Chitti something the caller can't hear ("ask them to leave it at the door"), or take over the call yourself.

WHAT YOU NEED
• Shizuku, a free app from Google Play. Chitti uses its shell access to call protected or hidden Android APIs so it can answer, hear and speak on calls; availability varies by device and Android version. No root needed. Shizuku has to be started again after the phone restarts.
• A Gemini API key, free from Google AI Studio. Chitti's voice is Google's Gemini. Without a key, Chitti can still check that the call audio works.

PRIVACY
Your notes, people and call history stay on your phone. Call audio and caller and owner context are sent to Google's Gemini using your key. Starting in version 0.3.13, Gemini voice requires your consent, which you can withdraw in Voice settings. Optional usage and crash reports default off in that version unless a previous choice was saved. There is no Chitti account.

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