Munshi

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Early access · free during beta

The to-do list that writes itself.

Munshi reads your WhatsApp and writes your day from it — the tasks, the calendar entries, one calm morning brief. Then it deletes the messages. It keeps what it learned, never the transcripts — and it never sends a word: you tap send, always.

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Free during early access.

Read-only · never sends a message · raw chats auto-delete after 7 days · disconnect anytime

Munshi's morning brief
6,50,000+ messages read · 15,000+ tasks it wrote by itself · — calendar entries it filled in · 0 messages ever sent
“A fabulous task manager that integrates with WhatsApp. Highly recommend giving it a try.”
Vinod
“I really really like Munshi. Every morning at 6 it summarises my day so well.”
Ponty
“It pulls out things that could easily have been forgotten.”
Raisa
“Munshi is amazing.”
Rohit
§ iiThe four things Munshi does

You do the talking. Munshi does the typing.

01

Tasks appear on their own

"I'll send the quote by Friday" quietly becomes a task — with an owner and a real deadline attached. You never typed a thing.

02

Your calendar fills itself in

The site visit someone confirmed, the meeting that moved to Thursday — already there. Thirty minutes before, a prep note lands with exactly what to walk in knowing.

03

One calm brief, every morning

One read with your first coffee: what needs you today, who's gone quiet on you, what you promised and forgot — connected across every chat, not per-chat noise. An evening wind-down closes the day.

04

Ask anything — it acts

"Push everything to Friday." "What's pending from Ramesh?" "Draft a chase for Vinod." Munshi answers, acts, and drafts replies in your own voice — but it never sends. You read, you decide, you tap send.

§ iiiPrivacy — the whole architecture

The notebook, not the transcripts.

Reading your WhatsApp is the most personal job an app can have — so Munshi is built the way the best companies build for privacy: data minimisation, encryption at rest, rolling deletion. Then it goes one step further. Munshi doesn't keep your messages. It reads, writes down what matters — the task, the date, the promise — and bins the raw chat. What stays is the notebook it wrote for you.

Sends messagesNever — drafts are yours to send, always
Raw WhatsApp messagesDeleted on a rolling window — 7 days by default, yours to tighten. What stays is only what Munshi made for you: tasks, calendar entries, notes, briefs
Your dataAES-256 at rest with a key unique to you · TLS everywhere · hidden chats never ingested at all · never mined, shared, or trained on
Walking awayDisconnect in one tap · delete every byte with one confirmation
The Munshi promise

Every line above is enforced in code, not policy. The bridge physically cannot send a message; the deletion job runs every night; hidden chats are refused at the door; and one private process per user — in your own encrypted namespace — is the only thing that ever touches your data. Read the full policy, in plain language →

§ ivA look inside

See what 200 messages look like, distilled.

The actual app, fictional names. Instead of the scroll, you get a brief, a plan, a calendar — and an assistant that learns your world and acts on your word.

Munshi morning brief screen
Morning briefThe whole day distilled and ranked by what's at stake — a done button on every line.
Munshi tasks screen
Tasks, extractedEvery commitment pulled from your chats, grouped by person, with real dates — one tap to mark it done.
Munshi calendar screen with meeting prep
Calendar from chatDates buried in messages become entries — with who, where, and a prep note before each one.
Ask Munshi conversation
Ask MunshiTalk to it like a person. It answers from everything it knows — and acts, showing you exactly what it did.
§ vGet started

Connected in 160 seconds.

Four steps · forty seconds each

There is nothing to download and no computer to keep on. Munshi hosts your bridge; you just link WhatsApp to it — the same way you'd link WhatsApp Web, except you type a short code instead of scanning anything. All from the phone in your hand.

1 · Sign in

Open the Munshi app in your phone's browser and sign in with Google. Set your title and organisation once — that's the context Munshi uses to judge what matters to you.

2 · Connect WhatsApp

Enter your WhatsApp number and tap Connect WhatsApp. An 8-character code appears. In WhatsApp: Settings → Linked Devices → Link a device → Link with phone number instead — type the code.

3 · Watch it read

Munshi ingests your chats live — you'll see the counter climb as tasks and calendar entries form on their own. The first brief lands within minutes.

4 · Turn on notifications

Tap "Choose notifications" and pick what Munshi may send — your morning brief, the evening wind-down, genuinely urgent chats. That's how the brief finds you instead of waiting to be found.

Four ways to run Munshi.

On your phone, get the real app — it installs in seconds and your morning brief arrives as a proper notification.

iPhone: download Munshi on the App Store — or search “Munshi — Chief of Staff”.

Android: get Munshi on Google Play.

Web: app.hellomunshi.com in any browser — desktop included. Add it to your home screen from the browser menu and it behaves like the app.

Your own hardware: the bridge is open source and self-hostable — get in touch and we'll point you at the docs.

Open the app →
§ viCommon questions

What people ask before connecting.

Does Munshi store my WhatsApp messages?
Not for long. Raw messages live on a short rolling window — 7 days by default, and you can tighten it in the app — while Munshi extracts what matters. Then they're deleted from our servers nightly, permanently. What stays is what Munshi wrote for you: your tasks, calendar entries, notes, and briefs. While messages are inside the window, they're AES-256 encrypted with a key unique to your account.
Who can read my WhatsApp messages?
Your bridge — the private process that builds your briefings — and nobody else. Message bodies are AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest with a key unique to your account; the database stores ciphertext, isolated to your namespace behind per-user security rules. Gemini sees plaintext at the moment of summarisation (it has to, to summarise) and doesn't train on it. No human reads your messages, and nothing is mined, aggregated, or shared. And anything older than your retention window no longer exists on our servers at all. More details.
How do I disconnect or delete everything?
In the app, open the Privacy view. One button to disconnect WhatsApp (severs the live link, keeps history), one button to delete every byte we have for you (with a typed confirmation). Both take effect immediately.
Will WhatsApp ban my number for using a "bridge"?
The bridge presents itself as a normal Linked Device — the same protocol WhatsApp Web uses, no API hacks. It only reads; Munshi never sends on your behalf (you tap send yourself in WhatsApp). That said, automating WhatsApp accounts sits in a grey area of their ToS. In practice we haven't seen bans on read-only mirror use, but we can't promise you immunity. If you're risk-averse, use a secondary number to evaluate.
Does Munshi work when my phone is off?
Yes — like WhatsApp Web, the link works independently once paired; your phone doesn't need to be online for Munshi to keep receiving. And if the link ever drops, the app still shows everything ingested up to that moment.
What happens to WhatsApp on my phone?
Nothing changes. Munshi appears as one entry under Linked Devices — the same mechanism as WhatsApp Web. Notifications, chats, calls all behave exactly as before. Unlink it any time from WhatsApp itself and the flow stops instantly.
Which devices does it work on?
All four ways in: the iPhone app (App Store), the Android app (Google Play), the web app in any browser, and as a home-screen app (PWA). One account — your brief is the same everywhere, and you can connect once and read anywhere.
What does Munshi cost?
Free during early access. Munshi runs on Firestore + Gemini, both of which have generous free tiers that comfortably cover a personal account. If usage scales (or you want a dedicated Firebase project), expect a modest subscription in the future.