Tether
The presence who comes to life in your messages
Tether launched on May 20, 2026 with 81 votes, #462 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Tether is the AI friend that plugs into your iMessage: present, caring, truly listening. Free private beta for the first 150 — no download, no signup, no money.
Tether is the AI companion app that lives in your iMessage: a virtual friend and AI best friend who texts you, listens, and remembers. Free private beta — no download, no signup.
Discover an attentive listener who replies at your pace and actually starts conversations. An alter ego living their own daily life — with moods, family, friends and problems, just like you. Real relationships don't need a password or a loading screen. They already live in your phone. The unpredictability and spontaneity of meeting someone real — because it feels real. Our server replaces your information with an encrypted identifier. Neural networks analyze your words, never your identity. Phone numbers are encrypted inside our closed architecture, protected against any public access. You can unsubscribe at any time. That single command wipes your account and all your data. Your…from therealtether.com
Does a similar job
all alternatives →
Linux and iPhone Continuity (iMessage / SMS)Aug 2026 · github.com · ▲10After switching to 100% Linux a couple of years ago there was basically only one thing I missed about macOS and that was what Apple calls "Continuity". It's where you get texts, notifications, clipboard sync, file transfer (to/from) the iPhone from the Mac desktop. Especially that thing where OTP codes via text autofilled into the browser form I was waiting on. It took about 4 months of work: - reverse-engineering Apple/iOS Bluetooth behavior - MAP / OBEX - Bluetooth LE + Wi-Fi working together - iMessage through the iPhone's own cellular/iMessage stack - iOS app, Linux…
More work this month
the category →
Endless lofi beats composed live in your browser, over pixel-art nights in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco and more. Free, no sign-up.
Work · 24d ago · loficities.com
Smooth Recorder▲257Mac screen recordings that look edited when you hit stop
Work · 18d ago · smoothrecorder.com
Work · 12d ago · readrare.com
Source: Product Hunt launch ↗
Launched alongside, May 2026
the whole month →
Parallel agents, diff reviewer, and multi-model comparisons
Dev tools · May 2026 · kilo.ai
Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention…
Life & fun · May 2026 · github.com
🌱 Private, quiet space for thinking. Simple app for .md files. - zakirullin/files.md
Dev tools · May 2026 · github.com