Karui
More powerful than Apple’s Focus modes. Your VIP contacts punch through in apps like LINE and Facebook, and every app’s notifications land in one inbox, even messages that were unsent.
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Saved
Important notifications appear here and can be viewed later.
Features:
- Your VIP contacts always get through your Focus, from any app
- View unsent messages
- Spam and promotions are silenced, judged by the actual message, not the app
- One-time codes are never silenced
- Every app’s notifications in one searchable history
- Automatically translate notifications into your language
How it works:
Karui evaluates notifications privately, entirely on device, using your important contacts and calendar info, and decides whether to show them or hide them.
Privacy:
Karui runs privately on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence. It uses an on-device model from Apple, so your private notifications never leave your device. Karui has no server, does not require an account, and sends zero analytics.
Requirements:
Requires an iPhone running iOS 26 or newer and Apple Intelligence enabled.
Limitations:
Tapping a Karui notification opens the original app, but does not jump directly to the message. Just open the original notification for that.
Changelog
0.1.0 (17)
September 22, 2026- Added support for more apps.
0.1.0 (16)
September 22, 2026- Added repeat sender breakthroughs.
- Added a daily digest for neutral notifications.
- Added contact avatars for VIPs.
- Added one-time code detection.
- Added high performance filtering and grouping for list views.
0.1.0 (14)
September 22, 2026- Added a notification translation feature.
0.1.0 (12)
September 22, 2026- Improved the Japanese UI.
0.1.0 (11)
September 22, 2026- Added a way to enter important apps and your own name.
0.1.0 (10)
September 21, 2026- Added a manual reclassification option.
0.1.0 (9)
September 21, 2026- Fixed a fuzzy matching bug in the classifier.
0.1.0 (8)
September 21, 2026- Improved classifcation when an email body includes your own name.
0.1.0 (6)
September 21, 2026- Added support for Japanese.
0.1.0 (5)
September 21, 2026- Improved VIP matching.
0.1.0 (4)
September 20, 2026- Made various improvements and fixed some bugs.
0.1.0 (3)
September 20, 2026- Initial release.