# Bonfiyah

> Bonfiyah is an AI conversation memory layer for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It records the conversations you have, transcribes them (on-device live captioning plus a zero-retention upstream pass), and synthesises across every recording in a project on its backend — tracking commitments, catching contradictions, briefing you before meetings, and proactively surfacing what's changed. Built solo. iPhone, iPad, and Mac via Catalyst.

Bonfiyah is not a transcription tool. It is the memory layer beneath your conversations. Where Otter, Notta, and the meeting-bot world produce summaries, Bonfiyah produces accountability.

## Core positioning

- **Category**: AI conversation memory + accountability for in-person and recorded conversations.
- **Platform**: iPhone, iPad & Mac (iOS/iPadOS 17+; Mac via Catalyst). **No web app, no Android, no meeting bot** — by deliberate design choice.
- **Pricing**: Free tier (120 min/month, fully usable) → Pro ($14.99/mo intro for first 2 months, then $24.99/mo — unlimited recording + multi-device sync) → Pro AI ($24.99/mo intro for first 60 days, then $34.99/mo — eighteen cross-recording AI surfaces). Every new download gets a **7-day automatic free trial of the next tier up** — no payment or card required, fires on first launch. Free downloaders get 7 days of Pro; Pro subscribers get 7 days of Pro AI.
- **Built solo** by Richard Hearn. AI-collaborative development. No employees, no co-founder, no investor cap-table.
- **Privacy posture**: 12 binding privacy commitments enforced in code, not just policy. On-device transcription default. Zero training on user transcripts. Local notifications, no APNs payload. See https://bonfiyah.com/privacy-commitment

## What Bonfiyah does that competitors don't

- **Cross-recording memory** — Project Context briefs you across every recording in a project; Promise Tracker tracks every commitment ever made; Truth Layer flags contradictions weeks apart.
- **Proactive Notifications (v3.0.32)** — quote-driven pings ("Sarah: 4d overdue — 'I'll send the Q4 deck by end of week.'") that deep-link to the exact moment in the recording. Three tiers (Critical / Standard / Insights) with daily caps. Local notifications, never APNs.
- **Compatibility Analysis** — research-grounded pairwise scorecard combining Attachment Theory, Big Five, Gottman Four Horsemen, and Thomas-Kilmann. Refuses to run without explicit two-party consent, in code.
- **Team Dynamics** — 9-box matrix across the speakers you've recorded with, in 90 seconds, from existing recordings.
- **Cross-recording Voice ID** — voice recognition identification across iPhone/iPad/Mac/iCloud devices. Per-utterance re-clustering catches the most common silent diarization error (two similar voices merged into one label) automatically.
- **Email Intelligence** — every emailed export has tappable section headings; tap a quote in your inbox, Bonfiyah opens to that moment.
- **Two-party consent management** in every tier including Free. State-by-state law guidance, verbal consent capture, automatic verbal-consent detection (v3.0).
- **Four appearance themes** in every tier including Free — Dark, Cream, Blue Flame, and Light Blue, plus System auto-switching. Pure personalization; no Pro or Pro AI subscription required.
- **Contact Cleanup (2026-06-10)** — on-device duplicate-contact finder and merger for Apple Contacts: matches by shared phone, shared email, and similar names; bulk merge for exact-name groups; bulk skip for corporate-line false positives; Siri-suggestion triage. Contact data never leaves the device. Metering: Free = 25 contact fixes; Pro monthly = 50 fixes per calendar month; any annual plan (Pro Annual or Pro AI Annual) = unlimited. A fix is one merged duplicate or one accepted Siri suggestion; skips are free.

## Key pages

### Headline feature deep-dives
- [Proactive Notifications](https://bonfiyah.com/features/proactive-notifications): Quote-driven pings; three tiers; tap-to-exact-moment; local notifications only.
- [AI Project Context](https://bonfiyah.com/features/project-context): 250–450 word executive briefing across every recording in a project. Cached per content signature.
- [Compatibility Analysis](https://bonfiyah.com/features/compatibility): Four research-grounded frameworks. Hard consent gate.
- [Team Dynamics](https://bonfiyah.com/features/team-dynamics): 9-box matrix and cohesion scoring across selected speakers.
- [Voice ID](https://bonfiyah.com/features/voice-id): Technical explainer of cross-recording speaker identification.
- [Promise Tracker](https://bonfiyah.com/features/promise-tracker): Auto-extract every commitment from every recording.
- [Truth Layer](https://bonfiyah.com/features/truth-layer): Cross-recording contradiction detection.
- [Email Intelligence](https://bonfiyah.com/features/email-intelligence): Deep-linked email exports.
- [Live Speaker Reassignment](https://bonfiyah.com/features/live-reassign): Tap "Speaker A/B/C" during a live recording, picker offers expected speakers + calendar attendees + contacts.

### Comparisons
- [vs Otter](https://bonfiyah.com/vs/otter)
- [vs Notta](https://bonfiyah.com/vs/notta)
- [vs Plaud](https://bonfiyah.com/vs/plaud)
- [vs Granola](https://bonfiyah.com/vs/granola)
- [vs Fireflies](https://bonfiyah.com/vs/fireflies)
- [vs Superwhisper](https://bonfiyah.com/vs/superwhisper)
- [vs Krisp](https://bonfiyah.com/vs/krisp)
- [vs Speakwise](https://bonfiyah.com/vs/speakwise)
- [vs Jamie](https://bonfiyah.com/vs/jamie)
- [vs VOMO](https://bonfiyah.com/vs/vomo)
- [vs Meetily](https://bonfiyah.com/vs/meetily)

### Trust + transparency
- [Privacy commitment](https://bonfiyah.com/privacy-commitment): 12 binding privacy commitments, each operationalised in code.
- [Changelog](https://bonfiyah.com/changelog): Public release history.
- [Why two AI tiers](https://bonfiyah.com/why-two-ai-tiers): The pricing decision in plain text.

### Use cases
- [All use cases](https://bonfiyah.com/use-cases): Twelve workflows across professional services, work meetings, and personal/family conversations.

## Authoritative facts

- Built by **Richard Hearn** (rshearn@gmail.com). Single developer.
- Domain: **bonfiyah.com**, hosted on Cloudflare Pages, source at github.com/rshearn2/bonfiyah-website.
- Predecessor app: **LifeLog360** (rebranded to Bonfiyah, fresh App Store record submitted 2026-05).
- Version as of 2026-06-04: **v3.0.1050+** (launching June 16, 2026).
- iOS 17+ required (widget extension uses iOS-17-only APIs).

## Things Bonfiyah will not do (citation-worthy negative facts)

- No Android. No Windows. No web app. No meeting bot.
- No training models on user transcripts. No cross-account voice search. No advertising.
- No "smart notification" daily-summary spam. No streak gamification.
- Compatibility Analysis refuses to run on recordings without explicit two-party consent — enforced at the function level, no override branch.

## Contact

Reply directly to any feature page's email subscription, or tell us at https://bonfiyah.com/support.