Classical Rigor Meets Local Intelligence.

Angrove is a private, local-first companion for the rigorous study of philosophy, history, and theology. The app answers on your iPhone and does not send your questions to a model server.

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What does it mean for knowledge to become wisdom?

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Knowledge and Wisdom

Aristotle separates knowing that a thing is so from grasping why. In Thomism, wisdom orders what we know toward its highest causes. Knowledge becomes wisdom when it governs how you live, the life the ancients called eudaimonia.

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QUESTION OF THE DAY:

“What does it mean for knowledge to become wisdom?”

Thomism

Eudaimonia

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Why I Made This

Over the past few years I’ve noticed that it is accentuating a crisis of meaning in many people. The world is advancing faster than ever and so many people are unsure where they fit into it. AI is a powerful tool to increase productivity, but as it advances some are afraid that they might get optimized out of a job, streamlined out of their future. I wanted to be on the side of AI that is not meant to replace our humanity but enhance it.

When I first saw that there were AI models small enough to run on mobile hardware, the technical side of me was enamored by the possibilities. As I started to poke around I realized the potential for leveraging AI in a way only a local model could, true privacy. How could I use this technology in my larger goal of addressing the crisis of meaning? That’s when I began to conceptualize this project. This app is a space for you to explore some of life’s biggest questions in a place that is private, offline, and free forever. I have a moral responsibility to use all my skills and abilities to achieve the highest possible good I can, and this project is one expression of that.

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What Angrove
Stands On

Human thought is increasingly harvested, analyzed, and stored by centralized entities. Private reflection isn't private anymore and some of the most important questions a person can ask, about faith, meaning, existence, and truth, are too contentious or too personal to ask openly. So they go unexamined, for lack of anywhere safe to bring them.

Privacy

This app runs a fine tuned model that runs on-device. Your questions and conversations never leave your phone.

Performance

Performance has been optimized to bring the best reasoning possible on mobile hardware. Paired with a curated library of texts, Angrove is ready for your most difficult questions

Personalization

Angrove does more than just answer your questions, it prompts you to go deeper and connect ideas to facilitate true understanding

A Map of Your Own Thinking

As you explore a question, Angrove can add broader subjects to that conversation's Insight Tree. Definitions become saved Insights only when you choose to keep them. Together, they form a map of the ideas you've pursued.

Aristotle's whole picture of reality is teleological — everything has a telos (end/purpose) built into its nature, and things are understood by grasping what they're for. This isn't unique to ethics; it's how he explains nature generally (an acorn's telos is to become an oak, an eye's telos is to see). Eudaimonia is just this same framework applied to human life as a whole: if everything has a proper end, what's the proper end of a human being, considered as a whole life? Ethics, for Aristotle, is really a branch of his natural philosophy — the study of human nature's proper functioning, not a separate domain of "moral rules."

Terms, Defined and Saved

Answers can highlight terms worth a closer look. Tap one for a definition in the context of your conversation. If you save it as an Insight, it joins that conversation's tree and your Insight Library.

Nodes Take Shape As You Talk

After the first answer, Angrove can create a Node Concept for the subject of your question. As your ideas develop, new subjects may be added, and related concepts cluster together.

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Study Them All in One Place

Your Insight Library brings together the definitions you've saved across conversations. When you choose to update its global tree, related Insights cluster around broader subjects so you can explore their connections in one place.

Aristotle's whole picture of reality is teleological — everything has a telos (end/purpose) built into its nature, and things are understood by grasping what they're for. This isn't unique to ethics; it's how he explains nature generally (an acorn's telos is to become an oak, an eye's telos is to see). Eudaimonia is just this same framework applied to human life as a whole: if everything has a proper end, what's the proper end of a human being, considered as a whole life? Ethics, for Aristotle, is really a branch of his natural philosophy — the study of human nature's proper functioning, not a separate domain of "moral rules."

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The Library

Answers You Can Trace to the Source.

Angrove grounds its answers in a Library of primary sources: Scripture, the Church Fathers, Thomas Aquinas, the councils and catechisms, and the classical philosophers and historians. All 37 works and 51,836 passages are searched on your phone.

Passages, not paraphrase. Answers draw on real passages from the Library, and scripture citations link straight to the text.
Reference, not training data. Fine-tuning shapes how Angrove reasons and admits uncertainty. What it cites is looked up in the Library when you ask.
Honest about its limits. When a question depends on a source the Library doesn't hold, Angrove should say so rather than invent a quotation. A phone-sized model can still misquote, so check anything that matters.
Read the whole work. Every source can be opened and read in full, not just quoted.

Thomistic Theology

Summa Theologica

17,783 passages
Sacred Scripture

World English Bible

5,973 passages
Early & Medieval Christianity

City of God

2,801 passages
Philosophy

Nicomachean Ethics

443 passages
History

History of Rome

5,937 passages
Councils & Creeds

The Ecumenical Creeds

63 passages
Early & Medieval Christianity

Confessions

655 passages
Catechisms & Confessions

Heidelberg Catechism

88 passages
Political & Economic Thought

The Prince

213 passages
History

Parallel Lives

2,103 passages

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Scripture and Creeds

World English Bible
The Ecumenical Creeds
The Didache

Fathers and Doctors

Summa Theologica
City of God
Confessions
Against Heresies
On the Incarnation
First Apology
Proslogion
Ecclesiastical History
Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Councils, Catechisms, and Confessions

The Seven Ecumenical Councils
Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent
Catechism of the Council of Trent
Baltimore Catechism No. 3
Heidelberg Catechism
Augsburg Confession
Belgic Confession
Westminster Confession of Faith
Thirty-Nine Articles

Philosophy

History

History of Rome
Antiquities of the Jews and The Jewish War
Parallel Lives
The Histories
History of the Peloponnesian War
Annals and Histories
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Founding Documents

Magna Carta
Declaration of Independence
Constitution of the United States

On your device

Your Questions Stay Yours.

The model, the Library, and your Insight Tree all live on your iPhone. There's no account to create, no server listening, and nothing to sync, so you can ask the question you'd never type into a search bar.

No accountThere's nothing to sign up for or log in to.
No cloudAnswers are generated by the model on your phone.
Works offlineInquiry works the same with or without a connection.
FreeNo subscription and no paywalled features.

Built for the Questions You Keep to Yourself

Some questions are too personal to ask casually and too important to leave alone. Angrove was made with a few people in mind.

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The Curious and the Doubting

For questions you feel you can't ask out loud, and the room to explore them honestly.

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Students

For working through faith, identity, and meaning, with somewhere safe to bring the hard questions.

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Missionaries and Remote Workers

A theological resource and study companion that works far from libraries, and far from signal.

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Anyone Who Has Kept a Question

If you've ever held on to a profound question because you didn't know where to take it, this is for you.

Coming to iPhone

Bring the Question You've Been Carrying.

Angrove is free, private, and in active development. Check launch status for updates as development continues.