Wichtel.ai builds Hob, a privacy-first operating system for the home that quietly keeps your family on the same page.
Your household's quiet helper
Most families stitch their lives together across a grocery app, a shared calendar, a to-do list, a notes file and a budgeting tool, none of which talk to each other. Hob brings groceries, schedules, tasks, family coordination, finances and health into a single home that works offline and syncs the moment you're back online. It's the operating system we wished existed for our own household, built to the same standard for yours.
Every module is genuinely useful on its own, with no forced ecosystem.
Household data belongs to the household. We never sell it, ever.
Modules connect when it actually helps, never just because they can.
Helpful intelligence that stays out of the way and never blocks you.
Built offline-first so the home keeps working on a spotty connection, with role-based access so everyone, from a teen to a caregiver to an admin, sees exactly what they should.
Shared shopping lists that sync instantly, receipt scanning, barcode lookup, meal planning, and allergen blocking that protects every family member, and every pet.
Two-way sync with Google and Apple calendars, plain-language event entry, real-time conflict detection, and per-member visibility so everyone's day is clear.
Capture to-dos in plain language, organize them into projects and milestones, and let Hob suggest the prep tasks an event quietly needs.
Chore rotations, pet care, household notes, secure guest invites and birthday reminders, with thoughtful protections for teen and child accounts.
Shared budgets, sinking funds and spending insight for the whole household, designed alongside the rest of Hob and arriving next.
Gentle household health goals and routines that connect to the schedule and tasks you already keep, on the roadmap for a future release.
WIE is the quiet thread running through every module. It turns a typed sentence into a calendar event, suggests the groceries you're about to run out of, and drafts the prep tasks a busy week needs, always as a suggestion you can ignore. If the intelligence ever fails, your action still goes through. The helper never gets in your way.
Instant logic like allergen matching and expiry reminders, with no network and no waiting.
Turns your plain language into clean events, tasks and grocery items.
Thoughtful prep tasks and first-day insights, offered and never imposed.
A family's home life is among the most personal data there is. We treat it that way.
Hob is supported by the people who use it, not by advertisers. Your household is never the product.
Export all of your household's data at any time, and delete your account completely whenever you choose.
Designed with COPPA and GDPR in mind, with safeguards for children's and teens' accounts from day one.
Wichtel.ai LLC is an independent software company based in Chicago, Illinois, building Hob, a household operating system for iOS and Android.
We started Wichtel.ai because the tools meant to keep a family organized had quietly become another source of stress. Our aim is the opposite: software that earns its place in your home by being genuinely calm, useful and respectful of your data.
Hob is currently in private beta with households testing it daily, ahead of a public release on the App Store and Google Play. If you'd like to follow along or join the beta, we'd love to hear from you.
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