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A private AI memory assistant that lives on your Mac — it remembers your email, meetings and documents so you stop re-explaining your work. Mac only: Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later, no Windows version.
For a Mac-based founder whose day is scattered across email, meetings and docs, ShogunAI is the memory layer that makes every AI answer start from your work — at a premium price, and only if your work life is on a Mac.
ShogunAI is a Mac-only AI assistant that remembers your work — email, meetings, documents, calendar — in an encrypted memory on your own machine, then spends that memory on meeting prep, recall and approved replies.
You work on an Apple-silicon Mac, your context is scattered across apps, and you want AI that starts from your week instead of from zero — with sending always under your approval.
You use Windows or an Intel Mac, you want a free or cheap chatbot, or the idea of an app capturing your screen history — even encrypted and local — is a hard no.
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Starts A meeting approaches on your calendar
You get A meeting that starts from the whole story
Prep becomes a read, not a research project
Starts A meeting happens
You get A searchable record with decisions and follow-ups attached
What was promised stops depending on anyone's memory
Starts You need to know what was decided and why
You get The answer plus the original context behind it
Verification is one click, not an archive dig
Starts An email or message needs an answer
You get A reply that took seconds to finish instead of minutes to start
Approval Nothing sends or posts without your explicit approval
The blank reply box is where solo founders lose their afternoons
Download the Mac app; the trial carries Pro features. If it lapses, capture stops and memory locks but is not deleted.
Allow the apps and sources you want in memory; password managers, banking and private windows are excluded by default, and capture can be paused.
Use a supported assistant subscription or bring an API key — its charges, if any, are separate from ShogunAI.
Memory builds as you work; meeting prep, recall and drafts get useful as the record grows.
Time to first useful result: Same day — download the Mac app, connect your accounts, memory builds as you work · no-code 4/5
Two plans, both billed per person. Standard: $49/month billed annually ($588/year) or $62 billed monthly. Pro: $99/month billed annually ($1,188/year) or $124 billed monthly. Prices in USD before tax. A 7-day free trial includes Pro features. AI services you connect (a supported assistant subscription or your own API key) may charge separately and are not included in these prices.
$49/month billed annually ($588/year); $62/month billed monthly
Per seat / month · $49/mo for one person
$99/month billed annually ($1,188/year); $124/month billed monthly
Per seat / month · $99/mo for one person
| Plan | Published price | Solo monthly | Billed by | Limits & overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StandardSolo pick | $49/month billed annually ($588/year); $62/month billed monthly | $49/mo | Per seat / month | Mac only — no Windows version · Connected AI services may charge separately · Memory API and direct approved sending are Pro features |
| Pro | $99/month billed annually ($1,188/year); $124/month billed monthly | $99/mo | Per seat / month | Mac only — no Windows version · Connected AI services may charge separately |
The only jump is Standard to Pro ($49 to $99 a month billed annually), and it buys the Memory API and direct approved sending — not more memory or usage. The quiet extra is your connected AI service: its subscription or API charges are yours and sit outside ShogunAI's price.
Price record · 2026-11-05: First listing check, 2026-11-05, on shogunai.si (English homepage, which carries the plans and pricing FAQ; there is no separate pricing page): Standard $49/month billed annually ($588/year) or $62 billed monthly; Pro $99/month billed annually ($1,188/year) or $124 billed monthly — stated verbatim in the page's pricing FAQ and plan cards. The page's comparison section (ten separate subscriptions totalling $185.48/month versus ShogunAI Standard) is a selected-cost comparison the vendor itself flags as not feature-for-feature, and was not used as a price. 7-day free trial with Pro features. Launched on Product Hunt on October 23, 2026.
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ShogunAI is a general AI employee with one hard boundary stated up front: it is Mac-only. It requires a Mac with Apple silicon running macOS 14 Sonoma or later; there is no Windows version, only a waitlist. What it does on that Mac is different from a chatbot subscription: it builds a private work memory from the email, meetings, documents, calendar and apps you allow it to see, stores that memory encrypted on your own machine, and uses it to prepare meetings, take meeting notes, recall decisions with their sources, and draft replies that already contain the relevant context. A visual recall feature keeps encrypted screen images for a period you choose (3 days by default, then they delete themselves), meeting audio itself is never saved — only the transcript — and you can pause capture, exclude apps, and delete time ranges. The control model is explicit: reading and remembering are automatic, but anything that sends or posts waits for your explicit approval. Pricing is equally plain: Standard is $49 a month billed annually ($588 a year) or $62 billed monthly, covering memory capture, natural-language recall, meeting notes and AI answers and drafts through a supported AI service you connect (a subscription or your own API key — no key is required, and connected AI services may charge separately). Pro is $99 a month billed annually ($1,188 a year) or $124 billed monthly, adding the Memory API so other AI apps on your Mac can use your memory, sending approved emails directly from ShogunAI, and priority support. A 7-day free trial with Pro features starts the relationship; if it lapses unpaid, capture stops and memory locks but is not deleted. It launched on Product Hunt on October 23, 2026.
Solo Fit stays the public score: the qualitative roll-up of these four published inputs under the How We Rank method. Setup is a normal Mac install plus account connections and capture permissions, so it is not quite the zero-setup of a web chatbot; pricing is two flat published plans, with the connected AI service's separate cost the one caveat.
The difference: ChatGPT is the everywhere chatbot at a lower subscription price that starts each chat near zero; ShogunAI is Mac-only and pricier because it maintains a private memory of your actual work between chats.
The difference: Claude is the model-first assistant you bring context to; ShogunAI is the memory layer that gathers the context itself on your machine and can work through the AI service you connect.
The difference: Manus is a cloud agent that executes tasks autonomously on credits; ShogunAI lives on your Mac, remembers rather than roams, and never sends without your approval.
Standard is $49/month billed annually ($588/year) or $62 billed monthly; Pro is $99/month billed annually ($1,188/year) or $124 billed monthly, per the official site's pricing FAQ checked on 2026-11-05. AI services you connect may charge separately on top.
No. ShogunAI is Mac-only: it requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14 Sonoma or later. The vendor offers a Windows waitlist and states plainly that joining it is not a purchase or a commitment to a release date.
On your Mac, in an encrypted database that is not uploaded as a whole. Only the context slice a request needs goes to the AI provider serving it; screenshots are encrypted on-device and auto-delete after the period you choose (3 days by default), meeting audio is never saved, and every request is written to a log you can read.
Only with your explicit approval. Reading and remembering are automatic, but sending an email or posting a message always waits for you to review and confirm; on Pro, approved emails can then be sent directly from ShogunAI.
A 7-day free trial with Pro features, yes. A free-forever plan, no — the vendor's model is paid-only. If a trial ends unpaid, capture stops and your saved memory is locked rather than deleted, and returns when you pick a plan.
ShogunAI is not in a published stack yet — stacks are edited buying guides, and memberships are added only when the combination has been worked through.
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