Alcove a quiet place for your life
An end-to-end-encrypted journal that writes itself, and an atlas that clears wherever you walk. Only you can open it.
Coming to iPhone and iPad · 2026
Built so no one else can read it
Not us. Not Apple. Not anyone who picks up your phone. Privacy here is architecture, not policy: there is no server, and nowhere for your journal to go.
Encrypted, always
Sealed with AES-256 before it touches disk, under keys only your devices hold.
On your device
Your words, your places, and the AI that reads them never leave the phone. No cloud model, ever.
No account, no tracking
No sign-up. No analytics, ad identifiers, or third-party SDKs. The App Store label reads Data Not Collected.
Sync is yours
Optional, and it runs through your own iCloud as ciphertext Apple can't read. Never a server of ours.
Leave with everything
Full export and full erase, any time. Your journal was never ours to keep.
Honest by design
Our privacy story describes the code as built, and names its own seams. Nothing aspirational.
A warm place that fills itself
Keep a moment
Open the chest, keep what matters
A line, a voice note, a feeling. Light from the seam, a quiet “Kept.” as it closes, and what you said is sealed.
It gathers for you
Your days, arranged without a word from you
Photos, walks, workouts, plans: gathered onto the day's page on their own. Dates and places only, never a pixel.
Your world, revealed
Watch the fog clear as you move
The world starts fogged. Walking clears it. Yours alone to see: kept on your device, backed up only as sealed code if you choose.
On-device intelligence
An assistant that never leaves your phone
Ask about your own life. Every answer is written on the phone by Apple's on-device model. Nothing is sent away to be understood.
Make it yours
Nine looks, one warm home
Nine hand-tuned looks, day and night, each with its own icon. The chest stays wooden in all of them.
Small things, done with care
A card a day
A hand-written deck deals one small invitation each morning. Turn it over, live it, and it seals with the day.
Twelve feelings
Mark how a day sat with one of twelve quiet words, and watch them thread through your seasons.
Voice, kept whole
Keep the sound of a moment. The audio is sealed on your device, and its words are written down there too.
Bring your history
Import GPX paths or a whole Fog of World backup, and let photos, workouts, and plans backfill on their own.
Widgets and Siri
The chest, the day's card, and your explored world sit on the home screen. Keeping a moment is one sentence to Siri.
Locked to you
App Lock puts Face ID over everything, and what's on screen hides the moment you switch away.
There is no server we run. No account. Nowhere for your journal to go but with you.
Privacy isn't a setting in Alcove; it's the architecture. Read the whole story →
Asked, answered honestly
Is Alcove really private?
Yes, by architecture rather than policy. Everything you keep is encrypted on your device with keys only you hold, the AI runs on the phone itself, and there is no server of ours anywhere in the design. The privacy story explains every detail, including its honest caveats.
Can the developers read my journal?
No. Your journal is sealed with AES-256 under a key that lives in your iCloud Keychain. It never reaches us, and Apple's servers only ever hold ciphertext. There is no account with us and nothing for us to look at.
What ever leaves my device?
Very little, and nothing readable: encrypted sync to your own iCloud if you turn it on, an optional Apple Weather lookup you can leave off, and any export you choose to make. The complete list is published in the privacy story.
Do I need an account or a subscription?
Neither. There is no sign-up at all. Alcove is free to try for 3 days, then one small one-time unlock keeps it yours for good. Capture, sync, and export stay free forever.
What happens if I lose my phone?
Sign into iCloud on a new device and your journal returns on its own, end-to-end encrypted. You can also keep a self-contained backup file that restores everything, anywhere, even without iCloud.
Can I bring my existing history into Alcove?
Yes. Alcove gathers your existing photos, workouts, and calendar onto the timeline on its own, and the Atlas can import GPX paths or a whole Fog of World backup, so the map starts with everywhere you've already been.
When is Alcove coming out?
Alcove is coming to iPhone and iPad in 2026. The App Store link will appear right here the day it's live.
A private alcove for your life
Coming to iPhone and iPad · 2026