Press

Vellichor is a PDF Q&A app powered by Apple Intelligence on-device. This page collects everything media and writers need to cover it. For interview requests or anything not answered here, please email [email protected].

Fact sheet

  • Name: Vellichor
  • Etymology: from John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (2014) — "the strange wistfulness of used bookstores"
  • Category: Productivity
  • Platforms: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch (universal). visionOS deferred.
  • Languages at launch: English, Spanish (Spain and Latin America). Brazilian Portuguese and German deferred to a v1.x update.
  • Pricing: Free tier with limits + one-time $24.99 (USD) unlock. No subscription. Family Sharing on by default.
  • Privacy: 100% on-device AI via Apple Intelligence Foundation Models. Content is never uploaded to our servers or any cloud LLM; optional sync uses the user's own encrypted iCloud. Zero analytics. Zero third-party SDKs.
  • Sync: User's own iCloud (CloudKit Private Database + iCloud Drive). No KhassinX servers involved.
  • Status: Coming soon to the Apple App Store. Target release window: 2026 H2.
  • Studio: KhassinX, an independent studio building privacy-first apps for Apple platforms
  • Website: vellichor.khassinx.com

One-line description

Vellichor reads, summarizes, and answers questions from your PDFs using Apple Intelligence — entirely on your device.

One-paragraph description

Vellichor is a PDF Q&A app for Apple platforms that uses Apple Intelligence Foundation Models running on your device to summarize documents, search them semantically, and answer your questions with citations to the source page. Every answer is grounded in the document. Nothing is uploaded to us — no PDFs sent to our servers, no queries logged, no analytics; sync, if enabled, uses only your own encrypted iCloud. Vellichor is universal across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, with Apple Pencil annotation that transcribes your handwriting on-device. Pricing is a single one-time unlock, no subscription. For researchers, lawyers, engineers, clinicians, and anyone whose documents shouldn't be uploaded to a chatbot company.

What makes it different

  • Genuinely on-device AI — uses Apple Intelligence Foundation Models, not a cloud API with a privacy promise
  • Citation-required answers — every response links to the source page; no hallucinated facts
  • Universal Apple-native — designed for each device, not a stretched iPad app
  • Apple Pencil transcription — handwriting is transcribed on-device, never sent to a server or cloud AI
  • One-time price — no subscription, no data harvesting business model

Brand assets

Logo, app icon, and screenshots will be available in this section closer to launch. For early access, please email [email protected] with a brief note about the outlet and the angle.

About KhassinX

KhassinX is an independent studio building privacy-first apps for Apple platforms. The portfolio includes other apps sharing the same principles: on-device intelligence where possible, no advertising, no third-party data brokers, no subscriptions when a one-time purchase fits the value delivered.

Contact

Press inquiries: [email protected]
General: [email protected]
Security disclosure: [email protected] (policy)