TinyTrove

A private, encrypted timeline for life’s small moments.

Productivity

Privacy

Photography

Hey Product Hunt 👋 — I’m the maker of TinyTrove, and this is our very first PH launch. ## What inspired me to build this I’m one of those people with 50k+ photos in the camera roll. But the moments I actually go back to are tiny: a random street shot, three lines I wrote that day, a place I’d already half-forgotten. They don’t belong on social media, but they get drowned in screenshots, memes and receipts inside the system gallery. I wanted a place where [time + place + photo + a short note] could be saved together, and where I — not a platform — owned the result. Most apps I tried were either social-first, cloud-note-first, or quietly held the data hostage on their servers. So I started building TinyTrove for myself. ## The problems we’re trying to solve 1. Private memories should belong to you first, not to a platform. 2. Your data should be portable — switching phones, reinstalling, or uninstalling should never erase what matters. 3. “Be private” shouldn’t require users to read a cryptography glossary to use it correctly. ## Why v2026.5.2 felt like the right moment to launch on Product Hunt - All three migration paths — recovery key, local backup, and WebDAV sync — are now battle-tested across real device-switching flows. - Smarter backup gates: we now verify “recovery key is backed up” before upload, so you don’t discover the gap on the day you actually need to restore. - A privacy shield in the background and a re-auth on timeout, so a casual glance can’t leak your private timeline. - A dedicated Settings toggle for photo EXIF / GPS location, plus a per-publish opt-out. - A long tail of polish: subscription screen, share/import flow, thumbnails, and iOS review-related fixes all landed in this release. ## How my approach evolved while building this The hardest part wasn’t writing the encryption. It was **letting a non-technical user use encryption correctly without ever needing to understand it**. We rewrote the recovery-key flow three times and finally moved PDF generation off the main thread before it felt smooth enough to ship. If you’re someone who doesn’t want their whole life on a feed — but doesn’t want the small stuff to quietly disappear either — I’d love for you to try TinyTrove. Brutally honest feedback on private journaling, personal memory management, and migration UX is exactly what would help us most. Upvotes, critique, and bug reports all very welcome. 🙏 — Made with a lot of late nights and a lot of respect for your data.