Almond

Almond draws its power from the crowdsourced Thingpedia, an open collection of Web and Internet of Things APIs. Anyone can contribute support for the favorite service, with few lines of code and a handful of natural language sentences.

Thingpedia supports more than 40 different services, accounts and IoT devices.

Almond is free software, and is available on Github. You can download, distribute or modify Almond as you see fit.

When the Bitcoin price reaches $20,000, search for a “Bitcoin” picture, and tweet it with caption “I am rich!”

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monitor @bitcoin.get_price() on price ≥ $20000 ⇒ @bing.image_search("bitcoin") ⇒ @twitter.post(@bing.picture, "I am rich!")

Almond is the world first virtual assistant to support compound commands in natural language.

In Almond, you can combine multiple services into a single command, with powerful filtering and passing of data from one to another. Do away with the complex UIs of IFTTT or Zapier - in Almond the power is ready for you to type.

Almond is the world first Communicating Virtual Assistant: through Almond you can interact not only with your services, but also access that of your friends, family and colleagues.

To protect your privacy, Almond allows you to set flexible access control policies, based on time of day, on your location, on the content of the request, or really on any information available to Almond. For example, your parents can monitor your security camera, only if you're not home, or only at a certain time of the day.

Finally, to guarantee your privacy, Almond runs all its actions and computation locally. If you so choose, you can have your own installation of Almond in your phone or your laptop. If you use Web Almond, your data is encrypted and stored in a secure enclave not accessible by anybody else.