Eyes. Ears. Memory. Hands.

Your AI, now
in your pocket.

Walk through your kitchen and tell it to add eggs to the list. Glance at a prescription bottle and ask when you last refilled. Snap a receipt and file the line items under business meals. Schedule a Tuesday follow-up with the contractor — and it's already done.

Mac, VPS, or Raspberry Pi. Free on unlimited gateways. A friend's onboarded in five minutes.

Download for
macOS — v1.9.39
Download on the
App Store — Free
VPS / Linux / Raspberry Pi · layers on top of OpenClaw
1 curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash
2 curl -fsSL https://carapace.info/install.sh | bash
Two commands · ~8 min · non-destructive on existing OpenClaw
Full Linux guide → · All platforms ↓

Cognition

A brain, not a history buffer.
Modeled on actual brain regions.

Most "AI memory" is a vector database of past chats with cosine similarity slapped on top. Yours runs deeper — a layered cognitive model that takes what your iPhone perceives, files it the way a brain would, and surfaces the right context the moment it's relevant.

🧠

Hippocampus

Episodic memory of specific moments — the wine you photographed in Sonoma, the rash you asked about Tuesday morning. Retrieved by time, place, or topic.

🗺️

Place Cells & Grid Cells

Learns the shape of rooms, blocks, and routes you visit. Knows the difference between "your kitchen" and "a kitchen" without being told.

❤️

Amygdala

Tags emotional weight. Notices when you correct an answer or push back on a take, and quietly weights future recall so the same mistake doesn't repeat.

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Default Mode Network

Consolidates raw experience into stable schemas in the background — like sleep does for you. The bridge gets quietly smarter between turns, not just during them.

👂

Auditory Cortex

Every chat and voice turn flows in here. Not just the message — the cadence, the corrections, the things you didn't have to say twice.

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Thalamus

Per-turn relay. Pulls only the memories that actually matter for what you just asked, packs them into the prompt, and gets out of the way. Nothing irrelevant ever reaches your AI provider.

Out of the box

→Web search →Browser control →Code execution →Cron jobs →Persistent memory →Multi-agent orchestration →Image generation →File management

Toggle in Settings → Rumination on iPhone — off the moment you want vanilla AI back.

Real things you can do

A Tuesday with CARAPACE.
Camera, voice, memory — all working at once.

Kitchen

"What can I make for dinner?"

Open the fridge, ask. Carapace scans what's there, cross-references your pantry log, and names three things you can cook right now — not 40-minute recipes that assume you have saffron.

Vision Memory Voice
Thrifting

Good-Will Hunting, priced in real time

Walk the thrift-store aisle with Carapace live. Point at anything interesting — instant eBay sold-listing average, Mercari range, resale spread. "That midcentury lamp? $12 here, $180 sold last week."

Live vision Web search
Everyday

"What am I looking at?"

Landmark in a new city. Plant at the nursery. Error code on a dishwasher. Mushroom in the woods. Engine noise you can hear but can't describe. Point, ask, get a real answer with sources.

Vision Audio
DIY

Home-repair co-pilot

Point at the leak. Carapace walks you through the fix while watching your progress. It remembers your house — "that's the same water heater we looked at in March; the pilot light's on the lower-left panel."

Vision Long memory Guided voice

Four examples. Yours will be different. Build the routine that fits your life — every capability is already in the box.

What's under the shell

Not just a chat wrapper.

Real project tracking. Live agent orchestration. Status, in your pocket.

CARAPACE — Projects view Force-press to dive in

Project Board

Every project your agents are touching, with live progress and per-workstream status. Force-press any project to drill into workstreams — granular progress, active blockers, who touched what last.

CARAPACE — Agents view

Spinal Map

Live view of your running agents — main orchestrator, subagents, what they're chewing on. When something breaks, you see it. When something finishes, you know.

CARAPACE — Scheduled Jobs view Force-press to open payload

Cron Tracker

Every scheduled job in one list — next-run ETAs, last-run results, RED / YELLOW / GREEN health at a glance. Force-press a job to open its payload, edit the schedule, or fire it now.

Pricing

Mac and Linux: always free. iPhone scales with you.

Run CARAPACE on as many Macs, VPSs, and Raspberry Pis as you want — zero cost. The iOS tiers below unlock how many of those gateways a single iPhone can connect to. One-time purchase, no subscriptions.

Solo

Free forever

$0

iPhone pairs with 1 gateway. Mac & Linux always unlimited.

All apps, all features
Voice, vision, chat
Your own hardware
Get iPhone app — Free

Household

Friends & family

Popular
$4.99

iPhone pairs with up to 5 gateways.

Everything in Solo
Pair iPhone with 5 gateways
Home + work + cabin
No subscriptions
In-app purchase — $4.99

Power

Heavy homelab

$7.99

iPhone pairs with up to 10 gateways.

Everything in Household
Pair iPhone with 10 gateways
VPS fleet, Raspberry Pis
One-time, forever
Meta Ray-Ban beta — first 500, later this year
In-app purchase — $7.99

Corporate

Small team

$24.99

iPhone pairs with up to 50 gateways.

Everything in Power
Pair iPhone with 50 gateways
Dev, QA, production fleets
Still no subscription
Meta Ray-Ban beta — first 500, later this year
In-app purchase — $24.99
Mac & Linux apps are free. Tiers are iPhone-side in-app purchases.

Install

Pick your device.
One brain across all of them.

Each guide is a 3-to-5 step walkthrough. Send the link to a friend — they'll handle the rest.

Response speed depends on your setup. A beefy Mac with a fast provider answers in 1-3 seconds; a $5 VPS with a reasoning model can take 60-180 seconds on a cold start. Pick hardware + provider with the latency you can live with — you control both.
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macOS

Ventura and later

  • Menu bar app — always one click away
  • Guided setup wizard — installs OpenClaw + Tailscale
  • Tailscale integration for secure remote access
  • Project tracking, agent grid, cron monitoring
  • Free — unlimited devices, no login
Download DMG — v1.9.39 Full install guide →
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Linux

Headless / VPS

  • One-liner install — paste and go
  • Runs on any VPS — or a Raspberry Pi
  • Always-on headless daemon
  • Free — no license required for headless
Two commands — Carapace layers on top of OpenClaw:
1 curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash 2 curl -fsSL https://carapace.info/install.sh | bash
Non-destructive on existing OpenClaw setups — your chats, keys, and identity files are preserved.
Full install guide →
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iOS

iPhone companion

  • Chat, voice, and photo input
  • Live camera vision — AI sees what you see
  • CarPlay + Bluetooth device support
  • Control any gateway from anywhere
App Store — Free Full install guide →