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Your Affordable Digital Vault: Own Your Content Again

Tired of services that get worse, pricier, and less user-friendly with every update? It feels like innovation is often replaced by just taking more from you.

And when it comes to digital content, good luck storing what you actually own, let alone ensuring its long-term availability for a reasonable price.

What if there was a digital archiving service designed with affordability at its heart?

Imagine a community dedicated to giving you real ownership and control over your digital assets, built through true collaboration with content creators. This isn't just another platform; it's your personal vault, focused on you and strengthened by collective action.

Consolidate all your digital media in one secure, low-cost personal storage solution designed for you.

Our goal is simple: to empower your community

We're dedicated to building the tools that put true digital ownership back in your hands. This means enabling seamless sharing of resources, direct support for creators, and collaborative datasets. We believe in a future where your digital life is genuinely yours.

Features

Your Media, Your Rules

With a builtin video/audio player that supports virtually anything FFmpeg can handle, your entire collection, from obscure home videos to high-fidelity audio, plays seamlessly. No more wrestling with incompatible formats or relying on multiple apps. This is your personal media hub, ready for anything you throw at it.

Uncompromised Privacy & Security

Your privacy isn't an afterthought here. All your data is encrypted using a key managed by you or the community the data came from, ensuring the service itself zero-knowledge. We can't see your data, and we don't want to. It's yours, and only yours.

Community-Powered Economics & Simplified Storage

And the cost? This is where the community truly shines. We flip the script on traditional cloud pricing. Storage costs are shared between users who upload identical content, identified by cryptographic content hashes. This means if ten people store the same popular content, only one copy needs to be stored, and everyone benefits.

Whether you leverage community public preshared seeds to contribute to and benefit from shared, common archived data, or you opt for a personal/private one for truly unique content, the underlying principle is the same: collective effort drives down individual burden. Importantly, for completely personal and private data we charge you what it costs us to store the data and process your payment, ensuring you're never overpaying for your unique digital assets.

Its simple: traditional services charge you for every single gigabyte, regardless of how many other people have the exact same content. We share those cost savings with you.Providing 2 TB at just $4 is significantly cheaper than services like Dropbox, Apple Cloud, or Google Drive, which often cost a minimum of $10 for far less and without any shared benefits. This is collaborative archiving, making digital preservation genuinely affordable and sustainable for everyone, and finally making online storage simple by removing the hidden complexities and inflated prices. Even better it allows you to offload that storage from your device but continue to be able to access it transparently when its needed.

Direct Creator Support

But we go further than just affordability for you. We believe in fair compensation for those who create the content you love.

That's why higher subscription tiers will provide content creators direct compensation each month, based on the percentage of time you spent watching their content within that month.

No more opaque algorithms, no more minuscule payouts from platforms that take the lion's share. Your engagement directly supports the artists, educators, and creators who enrich your digital life.

Secure Sharing & Distribution

Speaking of sharing, remember those frustrating moments when you wanted to show a friend something cool you created but didnt necessarily want to upload it to a third party?

Not here. You have the ability to share access to your library with friends, directly from your personal vault, on your terms. No more jumping through hoops, paying extra, or giving up your rights to your content for basic functionality.

Beyond storage, we embrace true digital freedom. The largest cost with digital distribution is bandwidth with builtin torrenting capabilities we directly avoid those costs.

It also allows you to easily manage and distribute the content you produce for free, globably, without having to setup complicated servers or sign away the rights to your content.

And to ensure everything remains private, we've integrated WireGuard VPN.

Critically, the VPN only deals with traffic from the application, keeping your general browsing separate and network unaffected, which dramatically simplifies the setup process.

It’s designed to work with any Wireguard service, offering you maximum flexibility and control over your network identity when sharing.