# ✨ Digital team mates for everyone With OpenMates you have a team of specialized AI chatbots that can not only inspire you & teach new knowledge but also fulfill various tasks using apps. Making the power of AI truly accessible for everyone. ## A team of specialized AI chatbots Different AI chatbots have different strengths and weaknesses. OpenMates combines the best of all worlds by giving you a team of specialized AI chatbots (called "mates"), each with their own set of skills, focus modes, and memories. ## Apps: the superpower of OpenMates What makes OpenMates different from other AI apps is that your mates can use apps - tools that give them superpowers like browsing the web, reading scientific papers, generating images, analyzing videos, tracking your fitness or nutrition, and much more! ## Privacy & encryption OpenMates is built with privacy in mind. Your chats, titles, app settings, and memories are **encrypted in your browser before being sent to our servers** — and are stored only as ciphertext. When you need an AI response, our servers briefly decrypt your content in memory, use it, and discard the plaintext without ever writing it to disk. Before your prompts reach any third-party AI model, real names, emails, and addresses are replaced with placeholders on your device. This is not end-to-end encryption (our servers can decrypt your content transiently to serve you), but it is a much stronger guarantee than encryption-at-rest alone — and when you delete your account, destroying your encryption key cryptographically shreds every encrypted field we still hold. ## Pay-per-use - no subscription required Unlike other AI apps, OpenMates does not require a subscription. You only pay for what you use. Start for free and only add credits when you need them.