Every family has a person who somehow keeps track of everything. The permission slips, the dentist appointments, the thing that's due Thursday. What if that person had help?
You know the feeling. School sends an email about picture day — buried under twenty other messages. The dentist appointment you swore was next week is actually tomorrow. Somewhere in a group chat is the address for Saturday's birthday party, but good luck finding it. You're not disorganized. You're just one person managing a household that runs on a dozen different apps, inboxes, and calendars.
In Game of Thrones, while everyone else fights for the throne, the Maester is the one who actually keeps things running — managing the messages, tracking the records, knowing what needs to happen and when. Quietly competent. Always paying attention.
That's exactly what we built. Mæster connects to your family's email, calendars, school portals, and messages — then watches for the things that matter. A permission slip arrives? Surfaced. A flight confirmation comes in? On the calendar. The pediatrician sends a reminder? You'll see it before it's buried.
It runs on a Mac in your home — no cloud, no subscription, no one else reading your family's data. Just a quiet, always-on presence that catches what you'd miss and organizes what you don't have time to.
The æ in the name is Old English — the original spelling of "master," from a time when the word meant someone trusted to care for a household. We thought that fit.
Maester organizes your household into five clear areas, so nothing important gets lost in the noise.
Maintenance schedules, vendor contacts, package tracking, and repair reminders.
School events, activities, permission forms, and after-school schedules in one place.
Birthdays, anniversaries, travel plans, and family events you don't want to miss.
Civic obligations, memberships, renewals, and everything outside your four walls.
Patterns, habits, and gentle reminders of the things that matter most over time.
No complicated setup. No cloud accounts. Just your Mac and a few minutes.
Install Maester on any Mac. It runs quietly in the background, always ready when your family needs it.
Link Gmail, Google Calendar, Apple Messages, school portals, and other services your family already uses.
Important items surface automatically. Permission slips, appointment reminders, package deliveries — all organized and ready.
Maester runs entirely on your hardware. Your family's information never leaves your house.
All reasoning and decisions happen on your Mac. Nothing is sent to external servers for processing.
Sensitive data is encrypted and stored in your macOS Keychain — the same security your Mac uses for passwords.
Maester works without any cloud subscription. Your household data is yours alone — always.
Maester runs on any Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) and at least 16 GB of memory. It runs quietly in the background — you won't even notice it's there.
Maester is free to download and use during early access. We'll announce pricing before any paid features launch, and early access users will always get the best deal.
Right now, Maester works with Gmail, Google Calendar, Apple Mail, Apple Messages, Apple Calendar, and Apple Contacts. We're adding support for school portals, package tracking, and more.
Maester processes your email locally on your Mac to find important items like appointment confirmations, school forms, and delivery updates. Your email content never leaves your home network.
Yes. Maester is designed for households. Every family member can access the dashboard from any device on your home network.
Uninstall the app and all your data is gone. Since everything is stored locally on your Mac, there's nothing to delete from any cloud service.
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