Hearth is a private Android app where you write down what your family will need to find: the will, the accounts, the policies, the people to call. It opens for the person you choose only after your check-ins stop.
For Android. Pay once (no longer applies) Free for a limited time. No subscription. Works fully offline.
The usual first guess is a place to keep documents, like Google Drive. It’s closer to a handover note that knows where everything is.
A map of the loose ends your family would otherwise have to hunt down: what exists, where the originals are, who to call, and what to deal with first.
You can attach a policy PDF or a photo of a deed to an entry, so your family can find the proof. The attachment backs up the entry. It isn’t the point of it.
Start with the essentials: where the will is, one bank account, one insurance policy, and the people to call. Add the rest whenever you get to it. Everything you enter is encrypted on your phone.
You choose how long Hearth waits between check-ins: two weeks, four weeks, or three months. While you keep checking in, nobody else can open anything.
Once your check-ins have stopped for the time you chose, the person you named can open your records. They unlock it with a recovery sheet you printed and keep with your will. There’s no company, support ticket, or server in the middle.
Organized by when your family will need it, so no one has to face everything at once.
Hearth works fully offline. There’s no account to create and no server holding a copy of your information.
Your entries and the files you attach are encrypted, and unlocked with your PIN or your phone’s biometrics.
There’s no subscription, so there’s nothing to lapse and lock your family out later.
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Because no server holds your data, nobody can reset access for you, including us. That’s why the printed recovery sheet matters, and why we ask you to keep it with your will.
No. Drive stores files. Hearth records what exists and where it is, and who to contact, so your family can act. You can attach a document to an entry, but the entry is what makes it findable. Nothing is uploaded or synced anywhere.
Hearth gives you a recovery sheet to print. Keep it with your will, and tell the person you named where to find it. Without it, the data can’t be opened by anyone, so it’s worth the five minutes.
You pick the window: two weeks, four weeks, or three months. Choose a longer one if you travel or are often offline.
No. Hearth helps your family find the proof: the will, the policy, the deed. It isn’t part of any legal process and doesn’t give legal advice.
Any. You can tag a record to whichever country it belongs to. US and India have local terms built in, and other countries use general labels, with notes for anything that doesn’t fit.
Not yet. Hearth is Android only for now.
Hearth is free for a limited time on Google Play. After that, you pay once. There’s no subscription and no account.