How Owlka works.

What is Owlka?

Owlka puts the power of Claude in your pocket. Build websites, build apps, set up monitors, connect your tools and data, and build the thing in your head, all from the comfort of your sofa, no coding background needed.

Wrapped in a powerful app with memory that lasts across sessions, automatic reviewers that check the work, guardrails that ask before anything risky touches your Mac, and much more. Owlka turns a phone into a place where real things get built, not a chat toy.

How does authentication work?

Owlka is bring-your-own Anthropic. You already have, or will sign up for, an Anthropic account with Claude enabled. You authorise Owlka against that account using Anthropic’s OAuth flow, the same kind of “Sign in with” screen you have seen for Google or GitHub.

Your Claude subscription is what powers your sessions. Owlka never sees your API key. Anthropic issues an OAuth token to your device, the token sits in the iOS Keychain, and every model call is billed to your Anthropic account, not ours. If you cancel your Anthropic plan, your sessions stop. Owlka itself is free to download.

This means Apple’s reviewer, your IT team, and you all have a clear answer to “where does the AI bill go?”, straight to Anthropic, on your account, under your control.

Getting started

1. 1

   Create an Anthropic account

   Head to console.anthropic.com and sign up. Anthropic is the company that makes Claude, the AI model that powers your Owlka sessions. You will sign in with this account whenever you authorise a new device.
2. 2

   Enable Claude on your account

   Owlka runs on top of your own Claude plan from Anthropic, so you need an active Pro or Max subscription before you can start a session. See anthropic.com/pricing for current plans and pricing. Pro and Max both work with Owlka.
3. 3

   Open Owlka and tap Connect Anthropic account

   Install Owlka from the App Store, open it, and on the first-run screen tap Connect Anthropic account. Owlka will hand off to Safari to start the OAuth flow.
4. 4

   Authorise Owlka in the Anthropic OAuth screen

   Anthropic will show you exactly what Owlka is asking for. Approve, and you will be bounced back into the Owlka app. The token Anthropic issues is stored in the iOS Keychain on your device. Owlka never sees your API key.
5. 5

   Start your first session

   You are in. Type a prompt, ask Claude to build something, and watch it work. Your session runs on Owlka’s secure host and streams output live to your phone. Close the app and reopen it later, the session is still there.

What can I do with Owlka?

The kind of things you used to need a developer for. A non-exhaustive list:

• Build websites.
• Build apps.
• Set up monitors that watch things for you.
• Connect your tools and data.
• Build the thing in your head, all from the comfort of your sofa.

What you get

Owlka is free to download and use. No card on file, no charge, no usage meter on you. You bring your own Claude Pro or Max subscription from Anthropic.

• Owlka iPhone app, paired with your Mac.
• Owlka Mac companion app that runs Claude on your machine.
• Encrypted middleman between phone and Mac. It cannot read what you send.
• Your Anthropic OAuth token stays on your devices. Owlka does not see it.
• Persistent on-device memory.
• Priority email support.

More detail on the pricing section of the home page.

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