Honey 1.0 · Android

An AI chat that
shops with you.

Ask a question and you get an answer. Ask about something on the shelf and the same thread turns into product cards, a basket and a checkout, without opening another app.

Play listing is in review. The 1.0 test build installs today.

12
model providers
AES-256
chat history at rest
0
analytics SDKs
hands-free streaming encrypted

What it does

One thread, four jobs.

Chat with any model

OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, OpenRouter, Ollama or your own server. Switch provider mid-thread and keep the history.

Talk, and it talks back

Dictate or record. Replies are spoken by the system voice, Whisper or Deepgram. Hands-free mode runs the whole loop and stops when you interrupt.

Shop from the chat

The shelf is read live from the merchant's MCP server, so price and stock match the store. Cards carry an add button and the basket stays in the thread.

Pay with guardrails

A monthly limit, a per-purchase cap and a freeze switch, checked before the payment sheet opens. Biometrics sign a device-bound consent that the backend verifies. The wallet keeps the brand, last four digits and a receipt, never the card number.

  • Stripe test mode in 1.0
  • Optional USDC rail over x402
  • Receipts on the device

Inside the app

Built for one hand.

Honey home screen with the bee mascot, a prompt field and the three-tab menu bar
Home
A chat reply with three product cards from the live shelf
Shelf answers
Hands-free voice mode with the honey ring animation behind the bee
Voice mode
Basket sheet with line items, age confirmation and a payment button
Checkout
Wallet screen with monthly budget and spending limits
Wallet
Settings screen listing connected model providers
Providers

Hands-free

Start talking. It stops to listen.

Hold the honey button and the composer folds into a small voice bar. Honey listens, answers, reads the reply out loud, then opens the microphone again. Talk over it and playback stops mid-sentence.

  • Android speech recognition, or cloud transcription
  • OpenAI and Deepgram voices, streamed as audio
  • Works with the screen off and the phone in your pocket

Privacy

Your keys stay on your phone.

Honey has no account system, no analytics SDK and no ad SDK. What it stores, it encrypts, and what it sends goes only to the provider you chose.

Keystore vault

API keys and OAuth tokens sit in AES-256-GCM encrypted preferences behind an Android Keystore master key.

Encrypted history

Chats live in a SQLCipher database. The passphrase is generated on the device and never leaves it.

Biometric gate

Optional unlock and payment approval through an AndroidX Biometric prompt with a Keystore crypto object.

No cloud backup

The vault and the database are excluded from Google backup and from device transfer. A new phone starts clean.

Bring your own keys

  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Google Gemini
  • Azure OpenAI
  • DeepSeek
  • Moonshot Kimi
  • MiniMax
  • Groq
  • OpenRouter
  • Ollama
  • LM Studio
  • Any compatible server

Questions

Before you install.

Do I need an account?

No. Paste a provider key or point Honey at a local server and start typing. There is no sign-up screen, and nothing about your usage is sent anywhere except the provider you configured.

Which models work?

Anything that speaks the OpenAI chat completions API, plus native Anthropic, Gemini and Azure OpenAI clients. Twelve providers are listed in the app, and the list is editable.

Does Honey charge me?

Not for the app. Model usage is billed by whichever provider you connect, at their rates. Payments in the shop run against the merchant's Stripe test backend in this build, so no real money moves.

What happens to my chat history?

It is written to a SQLCipher database on the phone. Each request sends the recent turns that fit the model's context window to the provider you chose. Lines about the shop go to the merchant's server instead, so it can price the shelf. Delete the app and the data goes with it.

Is there an iOS version?

No. Honey is built on Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, and the voice loop leans on Android's speech recogniser.

Honey 1.0 is nearly here.

Android 8.0 and newer. Bring a key or a local model.

The listing is in review. The 1.0 test build installs from an APK today.