Tomo

Tomo is a consumer personal-AI product that operates primarily as a phone number users text over iMessage, supplemented by a companion iOS app. Users tell Tomo what they want to accomplish — fitness, saving money, building habits, finishing delayed tasks — and Tomo retains that context across conversations, proactively messages users with check-ins and reminders, and helps with day-to-day accountability. Reported use cases include food photo tracking, budgeting from screenshots of bank statements, screen-time accountability, reminders, and motivational messaging.

Beyond conversational support, Tomo can search the web, join group chats, watch videos, edit photos, and connect to a user's calendar, email, Notion, and Google Drive. A recently launched companion app, made available to users who text Tomo more than 20 days per month, generates personalized software interfaces tied to individual goals — for example a workout tracker that adapts to a user's habits, a budgeting view built around a savings target, or daily games that unlock during an intended morning routine. The company frames the product as sitting at the intersection of engineering, psychology, and anthropology, focused on when to intervene and when to stay quiet.

The iOS listing for "Tomo: Your Personal AI" is published by developer Mapo Labs and is rated 4.9 from 180 ratings in the Productivity category, describing over 250,000 users; the company's own site cites 500,000+ users.

Founding story

Tomo was co-founded by CEO Justin Quan and CTO Raymond Chen, who had previously built agentic app platforms and viral consumer apps; the founding team also includes people with experience from Harvey and MrBeast. The founders' stated rationale is that while AI has become effective for work, the areas that matter most personally — exercise, diet, relationships, and personal hobbies — remain underserved, so Tomo was built as a personal AI aimed at helping people live healthier and happier lives outside of work. The company says team members left large compensation packages and partnerships with established companies to build it.

Business model

Direct-to-consumer subscription for access to the AI assistant, sold from the company's own portal with payments processed via Stripe, plus in-app purchases through the iOS app.

Subscription pricing with a base plan at $19.99/month and additional tiers offering larger messaging limits; subscriptions are cancellable in the user dashboard, and the company states pricing may vary by user due to promotions and discounts. A free tier exists with message limits (reported by one App Store reviewer as 75 messages per day and without proactive outbound texts).

Traction

More than 10,000 paying customers reached in roughly three to three-and-a-half months while in stealth; users reportedly engage with Tomo on 20 of 30 days per month. The App Store listing cites over 250,000 users and holds a 4.9 rating from 180 ratings; the company website claims 500,000+ users.

Latest developments

In June 2026 Tomo emerged from stealth with a $5 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures (Accel, Align Fund, Basis Set Ventures, Conviction, Pear VC and angel investors participating), to be used to grow the product engineering team and expand the recently launched mobile companion app.