Cloud Butler docs
Cloud Butler lets the AI agent you already use read and act on your iCloud Mail, Calendar and Contacts, and, with the Cloud Butler app, your Home and Shortcuts. Works with iCloud.
What Cloud Butler is
Cloud Butler is a connector, not an agent. It doesn't chat, decide or think on its own. You keep using the AI app you already like, such as Claude or ChatGPT, and Cloud Butler gives that app a set of tools for your Apple world. When you ask "What's on my calendar this week?", your AI app decides to call Cloud Butler's calendar tool, Cloud Butler fetches the events from iCloud, and your AI app writes the answer.
Cloud Butler speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard AI apps use to plug in outside tools. It reaches iCloud only through the standard protocols Apple supports for third-party mail, calendar and contacts apps: IMAP and SMTP for mail, CalDAV for calendars and CardDAV for contacts. It signs in with an app-specific password, never your Apple ID password.
What works today, and what needs the Cloud Butler app
| Area | Status | How it connects |
|---|---|---|
| Mail, Calendar, Contacts | Works today | From the cloud, with your app-specific password |
| iCloud Drive, Reminders, Notes, Photos, Find My | Off on the public Cloud Butler service | Coming through the Cloud Butler app, which uses your device's own iCloud |
| Home (HomeKit) and Shortcuts | Server side ready; the app is in development | Through the Cloud Butler app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac |
| Mac control, Safari, Siri | Planned | Cloud Butler for Mac and the Cloud Butler apps |
Details: every tool and devices and the Cloud Butler app.
Quick start
- Make an app-specific password at account.apple.com → Sign-In and Security → App-Specific Passwords. Step by step.
- Add Cloud Butler to your AI app with this address, then sign in on the Cloud Butler page:
Claude steps · ChatGPT steps · Other MCP apps
https://mcp.cloudbutler.app/mcp - Ask something. Try "What's on my calendar this week?" More in example prompts.
Connected before with the earlier address, https://icloud.hyvemind.cloud/mcp? It keeps working, so there is nothing to change. New connections use the address above.
Free and Pro
Free lets your agent read your Mail, Calendar and Contacts. Cloud Butler Pro ($14.99 a month or $119.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial) lets it act: send mail, book and change events, edit contacts, and control your Home and Shortcuts through the Cloud Butler app. One subscription covers the connector, Cloud Butler for Mac and the iPhone and iPad app. Each tool's plan is listed on the tools page.
Cloud Butler is in early access. Plan checks are not switched on yet, so every tool the service offers works on any account until checkout opens. When they switch on, a Pro tool on the Free plan answers with a short note saying what each plan allows; it never shows a price or a payment link inside your chat.
Tools
43 tools in three groups: Mail, Calendar and Contacts (always on), optional iCloud web services (off on the public service), and devices, Home and Shortcuts (with the Cloud Butler app). See every tool.
Approvals and safety
You choose what an agent may do when you connect, every tool tells your AI app whether it reads, changes or deletes, and risky device actions wait for your tap on your own iPhone, iPad or Mac. How you stay in charge.
Revoke access
Delete the Cloud Butler app-specific password at account.apple.com and Cloud Butler loses access to your iCloud at once, then remove the connector from your AI app. Full steps.
Security
Your app-specific password is checked with Apple, then stored encrypted (AES-256). Your AI app never sees it. Cloud Butler doesn't keep copies of your mail, events or contacts. What Cloud Butler stores and the privacy policy.
Something not working?
See troubleshooting or contact support.