Photograph the letter.
Understand what it says.
Amtsorakel turns German official mail into plain language, finds the deadline, and shows you which passage of the letter it rests on.
Amtsorakel is in development. There is no launch date yet.
The second option opens your email program. There is no form, no waiting list and no newsletter.
What comes next
What the app does after that — and what it does not do
Four stations. They arrive as you scroll and then stand still. Without motion they stand there complete from the start.
Quoted word for word
The instructions on appeal are located in the letter and reproduced word for word. Amtsorakel does not rephrase them and does not derive anything from them.
If the letter contains none, the app says exactly that.
The app asks you
The day the letter reached you is not in the letter. Amtsorakel does not determine that date and does not guess it — it asks you, and you enter it.
Without your entry there is no date and no reminder.
The reminder
Your date and the quoted deadline wording turn into a calendar day. Whether that becomes a reminder is your decision, one tap away.
The arithmetic uses what you entered — and nothing else.
Where to ask further
Each kind of letter comes with a list of advice centres put together in advance. It hangs on the kind of letter, not on your case — and Amtsorakel does not say whether you should go there.
General contact points, not a recommendation in your case.
The difference
One sentence, twice
Original · notice of the right to appeal
An objection to this notice may be lodged within one month of its notification; the time limit shall likewise be deemed observed if the objection is received by the body designated in sentence 1. Notification shall be deemed effected on the third day after the notice was posted, unless the notice was not received or was received at a later date; in case of doubt, the authority shall bear the burden of proving receipt and the date thereof. Attention is drawn to the possibility of restoration of the status quo ante in accordance with the applicable provisions.
Amtsorakel
You have one month to object.
Notice received on
Deadline
One-month period under § 31 (1) VwVfG in conjunction with §§ 187 f. BGB. The day of receipt does not count (§ 187 (1)); the period ends at the close of the day in the following month that corresponds to the day of receipt (§ 188 (2)), and, where that calendar day does not exist, on the last day of that month (§ 188 (3)). If the end falls on a Saturday or Sunday, it moves to the next working day (§ 193). Public holidays are a matter for the individual federal states and are not taken into account here.
The same words
Five phrases that appear in almost every decision letter
On the left, the way it stands in the letter. On the right, what it means. The German term stays next to it — you will recognise it in the next letter.
- Verfügungssatz
- The paragraph that carries the decision itself.
- Bekanntgabe
- The day the letter counts as having arrived.
- Rechtsbehelfsbelehrung
- The section at the end that names the deadline.
- Bestandskräftig
- The deadline has passed; the decision stands.
- Aufhebung
- An earlier decision no longer applies.
General explanations of words, not a statement about any particular letter. In the app the explanation sits where the word occurs. The terms stay German because the letters are.
What it does
Three things you have to get out of an official letter
What it is about. What is being asked of you. By when. An official letter is rarely complicated because the matter is — it is complicated because it was written for the file.
01
Reading
Photograph the letter, get plain language back. For every letter the analysis answers the same three questions in the same order: What is this? What does it mean for you? What happens if you do nothing.
02
Deadlines
Amtsorakel repeats the time limit stated in the letter and shows the calendar date it comes down to. Every deadline comes with the passage it was taken from — “In the letter: …” — and with how certain the detection is: confidently identified, probable, or uncertain — please check. The date is a reading aid, not an assessment of your case; the letter itself remains authoritative.
03
Replies
Templates exist independently of the letter. You choose yourself which kind of letter you need — Amtsorakel does not suggest one and does not judge whether a reply is needed at all. The templates are general building blocks and are not tailored to your case. The text stays freely editable. Sending is always done by a person — the app sends nothing.
What people arrive with
Moving house · Children & family · Tax · Jobcenter · Studying — these are the five topics the app lets you choose from on first launch. The choice stays on the device and is not transmitted.
What arrives
Eleven kinds of post, the same three questions each time
Amtsorakel works out what kind of letter is in front of it, then answers the same three questions for every kind: What is this? What does it mean? What if you do nothing.
- Bewilligungsbescheid
- Änderungsbescheid
- Aufhebung und Erstattung
- Minderungsbescheid
- Wohngeldbescheid
- Rentenbescheid
- Kindergeldbescheid
- Bußgeldbescheid
- Mahnbescheid
- Vollstreckungsankündigung
- Widerspruchsbescheid
The classification concerns the document, not your case. Tax assessments are excluded: help in tax matters falls under the Steuerberatungsgesetz, and Amtsorakel is not built for it.
What it costs
Three letters a month, free
These prices are planned and will only be final at launch. Find the line that describes you — there are no other cases.
- One letter, now and then
The authority writes twice a year, and both times you stand there understanding half of it.
Free.
Three letters per calendar month. The counter runs on the server and starts over at the beginning of each month. Plain language, deadlines, amounts and the reply templates are included — the templates are not tied to Premium.
- A matter that drags on
More post keeps arriving, and four or five letters are on the table in the same month.
€39.99 a year. Or €4.99 a month.
Both planned. The annual plan is meant to come with 14 days to try it out. The monthly limit falls away; a high safety ceiling per day remains, today 20 analyses.
- You read for somebody else
The post belongs to your parents, your neighbour, the person you care for — you photograph it with your own device.
The same three letters a month, the same price above that.
There is no carer tariff and no second account. What else matters in this situation is on its own printable page, in German.
To this day there is no store product that could be bought. Billing would run through the App Store or Google Play; both accounts are still missing, and as long as they are, there is nothing to buy.
Afterwards
What happens to the photo
Four stations, in this order. They describe what the app and the server do — not what you should do.
The photo leaves the device
You photograph the pages; the image travels to the server encrypted with TLS. Account, letters and analyses are held in the EU, in Frankfurt am Main. The pages sit in a non-public storage area there and can only be fetched through short-lived, signed links. A letter may have five pages and weigh 15 megabytes in total.
The analysis
For the analysis the page images go to our AI provider; processing in the United States is not ruled out in the process. It is covered by EU standard contractual clauses. The images are not used to train AI models. What comes back is visibly marked as an AI analysis.
Where the deadline sits
A deadline only appears in the deadline watch once you have put it there. Reminders are scheduled and fired on your own device — there is no push service and no push token, so no external server knows about your deadlines. A recognised date cannot be edited by hand; adopting, ticking off and deleting it can.
How it goes away again
You delete a single letter in the vault; the page images, the analysis and the deadlines attached to it go with it. The account can be deleted in full, with everything attached to it. Both at any time, without asking us.
Do you read letters for somebody else? For relatives and helpers (in German)
Where things stand
When can I use it?
Not yet. Amtsorakel is built but not published — and until then, things are missing that do not depend on the software: the developer accounts at Apple and Google, the start of business operations on 1 September 2026, and a consent step in the app without which it must not ship.
Preview — not available yet
This is what the code that will later lead to the app is going to look like. It already carries the right address — amtsorakel.de — but there is no app behind it yet: scan it today and you land back on this page. There is no download button, no waiting list and no store badge, because there is nothing behind them.
If you would like to hear about the launch, write a line to info@amtsorakel.de. The message is read and answered; it is kept only for as long as that takes.
Questions
What people want to know first
- Which letters does it recognise?
- Official decisions, payment reminders, and letters from authorities and companies — the kind of letter where it is unclear what it means and what you are supposed to do. You photograph it with your phone; multi-page notices work too, up to five pages and 15 megabytes in total.
- Is this legal advice?
- No. Amtsorakel helps you understand a letter and offers templates for helping yourself — it is not legal advice on your individual case. For complicated matters, or ones with serious consequences, turn to a lawyer or an advice centre.
- What happens to my letters?
- Account, letters and analyses are held in the EU (Frankfurt am Main). For the analysis, the page images go to our AI provider; processing in the USA cannot be ruled out there and is covered by EU standard contractual clauses. They are not used to train AI models. Transmission is encrypted with TLS, the pages sit in a non-public storage area and can only be retrieved through short-lived, signed links. Deletion is possible at any time — single letters, or the account with all its data.
- How do I know the explanation is right?
- You do not know it from the explanation alone — which is why every deadline and every amount comes with the passage of the letter it was taken from. What the app cannot read, it does not invent: it leaves the field empty and adds a warning. Every analysis visibly carries the note that it was produced by an AI.