How to connect Moe to the apps and services you already use on a Mac

Jude Mercer, SEO and Content, Memoe — 15 October 2026

Open Connections, under Reach in the main window, and the list splits in two without you doing anything. The apps already on your Mac — Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Contacts, Mail, Messages — need only the macOS permission each one names, no account, no password. Everything else, Google and around 1,400 other services, connects through one broker that holds the sign-in for you, so there is no developer console to meet and nothing to paste for most of them.

What's already on this Mac needs no sign-in

Calendar reads every calendar in Calendar.app, Google ones included. Reminders sees what you still owe people, and adds one when you ask. Apple Notes is re-read every ten minutes. Contacts is who you mean when you say a name, and their number or email. Messages and Mail need Full Disk Access and then read what's already on the Mac — every account set up in Mail, not only Gmail. Google Drive reads the files the Drive app has already synced to this Mac, as files, with no Google password. Chrome's current page is the one source that's opt‑in for both learning and staying ready: Turn on and Turn off are its own buttons, and it is never your search history, only the page you were reading.

Google, and around 1,400 more, through one broker

Moe reaches Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets and the rest of Google, and around 1,400 other services, through Composio, a broker that holds the sign-in on your behalf. For most of them you click Sign in: a page opens, you sign in the ordinary way, and you're done. Slack, Notion, GitHub, Jira, Linear, Salesforce, Stripe, Zoom, Figma, Dropbox and dozens more all work this way, each with its own logo in the list. The rest give you a key from their own settings page, usually under a heading like Developers or API: click Paste a key, Moe asks the broker what that service needs, shows you where to find each field, and you paste and click Connect.

The one thing worth knowing before you start: the permission screen Google shows you says Composio, not Memoe. That's the honest truth of it — Composio is the service actually holding the sign-in, which is also why you never have to make your own developer account for any of it. Your mail and calendar requests travel through Composio's servers when Moe uses this route, rather than staying only on your Mac; see what travels where below.

A few services need no sign-in at all

Yelp, Hacker News, OpenWeatherMap, AllTrails and GoDaddy's domain search show up marked Always on — nothing to sign in to. There's nothing to connect or disconnect; Moe uses them the moment you ask ("find a coffee place near me on Yelp", "is memoe-shop.com available?").

A work account and a personal account

Once a service is connected, its button changes to Add another; sign in again there and you have a second account beside the first. Say which one you mean ("send it from my work address", "check my personal inbox") and Moe acts as that account — name one that isn't connected and it tells you which ones are, rather than guessing. Composio holds up to five accounts per service; at that limit, disconnecting one you no longer use makes room for another.

What travels where

Where a service can be reached two ways — Gmail through the broker or through an app password on this Mac, Drive through the broker or through the Drive folder on this Mac — the broker's row comes first, with the Mac-only route sitting inside it under Also. The broker route is the one that reaches your cloud computer too, if you have one; the Mac-only route never leaves this Mac, and stays the better path where privacy matters most. On the free tier, your memories and conversations stay on your Mac; what leaves is what you send to the AI you connected, the services you connect, and a short, named list — see the whole list.

What it needs

Connecting a service and asking Moe to use it, whenever you ask, costs nothing on any plan. Running on a clock — watching a mailbox for a sender, or a calendar for changes — needs a paid plan; a free Mac tells you once what it didn't do, and asking for the same thing yourself still happens right away. Hold one key from any app and say what you want; see talking to Moe from any app for the four ways to start. Full detail on every service, the paste-a-key fields and the request limits is in the docs, Connections — this page describes the mechanism, not a version number.