A breach can’t leak what was never uploaded.
We champion desktop software that keeps your data on your own machine, and the developers who build it. No cloud. No brokers. Nothing to spill.
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The cloud is somebody else’s computer, and it keeps getting broken into.
Uploaded by default.
Ordinary desktop tasks like writing, accounting, journalling and photographs now ship your files to a server you will never see. That is the business model, not something the software needs.
Breaches are routine.
A record 3,322 data compromises were tracked in the United States in 2025, and 80% of people surveyed had received a breach notice in the previous twelve months. Every large collection of personal data is a target. Aggregation is the vulnerability. Source: Identity Theft Resource Center, 2025 Annual Data Breach Report.
Local software breaks the chain.
Data held in a local database, on one person’s laptop, is not a dataset anyone can steal at scale. The more software works this way, the less there is to breach.
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Every pledge is public, dated, and revocable. We do not audit source code, and we do not pretend to. What we do is make the promise checkable, and keep the receipt.
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