Consciousness is built to be private by default. The whole app is designed around one
idea: your inner life is yours alone.
On your device first
Everything works locally. Your name, streak, journal, saved thoughts and settings live in
your browser and work fully offline — no account required, no tracking, no third parties,
no analytics.
End-to-end encrypted sync
When you sign in to sync across devices, everything you write — your journal entries,
reflections, gratitudes, moods, saved thoughts, settings and stats — is encrypted
on your device with a key only you hold (AES-256). It is decrypted only
inside the app, on your devices. The server stores nothing but an unreadable blob.
What anyone running the service can see
Only the minimum needed to run your account and contact you:
- Your name and surname
- Your email address
That's it. Your journal and everything you write is never visible — not to an
administrator, not to anyone with access to the database. Not even we can read it.
Your recovery key
Because only you hold the key, a forgotten password can still be reset to sign in — but
your encrypted journal can only be recovered with the one-time recovery key
shown when you sign up. Keep it somewhere safe. We can't recover it for you; that's the
point.
You're always in control
- Export your full journal any time (Settings → Backup).
- Sign out everywhere to revoke other devices.
- Delete your account and its synced data permanently.
Passwords are hashed with scrypt; sessions are httpOnly cookies. There is no third-party
tracking anywhere in the app.