Maple
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveEnd-to-end encrypted AI chat where even the operator cannot read your conversations
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $5.99/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Vendor blog lists a free tier (10 chats/week), a Starter tier at $5.99/month, Pro at $20/month, and Team at $30/seat/month; not independently confirmed against the app's own pricing page, which was blocked during this review.
Use tool ↗About Maple
Maple is a privacy-focused AI chat assistant that encrypts conversations on the user's device before sending them to the server, then processes them inside hardware-isolated secure enclaves so that, per the vendor's claim, not even Maple's own engineers can read the plaintext. It runs only open-source and open-weight models rather than proprietary ones. The product has grown into three parts: Maple Research (a document- and web-search workspace), Maple Agent (long-term memory across conversations), and Maple Proxy (an encrypted API for developers). It is built by Maple Privacy Labs Inc. on top of the OpenSecret encrypted backend platform; direct access to the main app site was blocked for this review, so the pricing below comes from the vendor's own blog rather than the app itself. Desktop apps exist for macOS and Linux alongside web and iOS.
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Describes the on-device encryption and secure-enclave architecture, and the three-product Maple platformblog.opensecret.cloud ↗
- Confirms the operating company name (Maple Privacy Labs Inc.) and the three-product platform structureblog.trymaple.ai ↗
Is Maple legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Sep 16, 2024 (2 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Cloudflare, Inc, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Jan 11, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Maple Privacy Labs Inc.Our research, card verified Sep 1, 2026
Pros & cons of Maple
Maple's core claim - conversations encrypted on-device and processed in secure enclaves the operator itself cannot read - is a genuinely different architecture from most AI chat products, and using only open-weight models backs that privacy pitch instead of undercutting it. The main app was blocked from direct verification during this review, so the pricing and some feature claims here rely on the vendor's own blog rather than the live app.
Pros
- On-device encryption plus secure-enclave processing is a concrete, named architecture, not just a privacy claim
- Runs only open-source/open-weight models, which is checkable in principle
- Desktop apps for macOS and Linux exist alongside web and iOS
- Ships a developer-facing encrypted API (Maple Proxy), not just a consumer chat app
Cons
- The main application site was not directly reachable during this review
- No confirmed headquarters or country for the operating company
- Free tier is capped at 10 chats per week, quite low for daily use
Best for
- Users who want to discuss sensitive material with an AI assistant without trusting the operator to keep it private
- People who specifically want open-weight models rather than closed proprietary ones
Not for
- Users who need access to closed frontier models directly
- Anyone who wants to verify the app's current pricing without relying on the company's own blog post
Watch out: Pricing here comes from the vendor's blog, not the live app pricing page, which could not be reached directly - confirm current prices before subscribing.
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