AI Footprint is a friendly way to understand the electricity behind your AI chats.
Open your existing conversations, “Wattle” them, and instantly see
estimated energy impact in plain language. AI Footprint will be released soon
on both the Apple App Store and Google Play for Android.
AI is powerful — and it uses real electricity. AI Footprint offers a calm,
judgment-free way to understand that impact, one chat at a time.
Turn chats into energy estimates
See your AI activity translated into microwave minutes, phone charges, and more.
“Wattle” your history
Open past or current chats and instantly view an estimated watt-hour impact.
Watch patterns over time
View your estimated impact by day, week, month, or all time.
Wattling city visualizationIcon used in the AI Footprint app
How AI Footprint works
AI Footprint sits alongside the AI tools you already use. Whether you chat with
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity in another app or inside AI Footprint’s
optional built-in browser, you can open those sessions and see a simple energy view
of what happened.
1. Open your chats
Browse to your existing chat histories or start a new conversation using the
built-in browser. AI Footprint looks only at lightweight details like character
counts and how many images were generated — never the content itself.
2. “Wattle It”
Tap to “Wattle” a conversation and see an estimated watt-hour
total for that session. The app translates the estimate into clear, relatable
comparisons such as microwave runtime and full phone charges, helping you see
what your AI activity means in the real world.
3. Watch your Wattling city grow
Your estimated totals are visualized through a tiny animated Wattling city that
grows and brightens over time. The city is a playful backdrop that gives you a
sense of scale, while the main focus stays on clear electrical comparisons you
can understand at a glance.
What AI Footprint can show you
AI Footprint focuses on simple, understandable metrics instead of complicated charts.
You can view your estimated impact by day, week, month, or all time and see how your
AI usage changes over time.
Energy estimates for AI chats with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.
Clear real-world comparisons such as microwave runtime and full phone charges.
“Wattle” existing conversations to see their estimated energy impact.
Optional built-in browser for real-time estimation as you use AI models.
Day, Week, Month, and All Time energy views so you can spot patterns.
A playful Wattling city that reflects your general usage over time.
Private by design
AI Footprint is built to be calm and private. It does not require an account and does
not track any activity outside its own interface. All estimates are generated locally
on your device.
No content analysis
AI Footprint never analyzes, stores, or transmits the contents of your conversations.
It uses only lightweight metadata such as character counts and how many images were
created to produce estimates.
No accounts or tracking
There is no sign-up, no cloud account, and no third-party analytics. The app does not
track what you do outside of its own interface.
Local, clear, and optional
All calculations run on your device, and you can clear your stored energy data at any
time from within the app.
In addition to AI Footprint, we also develop HardKey™, an open-source SDK
(with commercial licensing options) for developers. HardKey offers a small, focused API for
creating and verifying Trust Tokens that are signed by a key held in a
device’s secure hardware (e.g., Secure Enclave / Android Keystore) when available.
These tokens are designed to answer a narrow question: “does this same device still hold
its protected key?” — not “who is this device?” and not “is this device trustworthy in
isolation.”
Hardware-backed signing – keys stay on-device; only signed tokens leave the device.
Trust Tokens – compact, signed payloads with purpose, expiry, and optional metadata.
Cross-platform SDK – TypeScript / Node, Web (browser), iOS (Swift), and Android (Kotlin) bindings.
Offline verification – verify tokens without a central issuer or online checks.
Simple licensing – free for non-commercial, open-source, and academic use;
a one-time $20 Indie Commercial License for revenue-generating apps; and
custom enterprise licenses for larger organizations.
