KeepARU
Private by default. Public on purpose.

A private vault for everything you write.

Keep a journal that's yours alone — then turn any entry into a public, shareable page when you choose. Downgrade, go free, walk away: your words stay readable and exportable, forever.

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Your vault

New entry
  • JUN 12

    Morning pages

    A few unfiltered paragraphs before the day starts…

  • JUN 09

    Therapy notes

    Locked — only you can open this.

  • JUN 03

    Launch retro

    Published at /@aru/launch-retro.

  • MAY 28

    Reading list

    Books worth a second pass this year.

Private by default

Nothing is public until you decide

Indexed nowhere

Locked entries leave no trace to find

Yours forever

Full read & export on any plan

Private by default.
Public on purpose.

Every entry begins in your vault, visible to you alone. Sharing isn't a setting you forget to turn off — it's a deliberate, reversible step. Promote a post to a clean URL at your own @handle, and pull it back private whenever you want.

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Launch retro

Public

keeparu.app/@aru/launch-retro

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Lock it, and it leaves no trace.

Lock an entry behind a passphrase — separate from your login — and it's purged from every search index, yours and the web's. A 15-minute unlock window, dropped the moment you leave the tab. Built for the borrowed laptop.

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Enter your passphrase to unlock for 15 minutes.

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Write richly. Take it all with you.

A full WYSIWYG editor with embedded images on Pro — and an open export on every plan. One archive of Markdown plus a manifest, downloadable anytime. No lock-in, no hostage data. That's the promise: paywall the future, never the past.

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More of what makes it yours

Custom domain

Pro

Serve your public writing from your own domain.

Verified badge

Pro

A verified mark on your public profile.

Owner search

Full-text search across your own vault.

Open export

Your whole archive, downloadable anytime.

The promise

Paywall the future,
never the past.

Cancel, downgrade, or go free — you never lose read or export access to a single word you've already written. The lock is an honest gate, and the door out is always open.

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when you want more.

Either way, you always keep full read and export access to everything you've written.

Free

$0 / forever

Everything you need to keep a private journal.

  • Unlimited private text entries
  • 1 collection + unlimited tags
  • Owner-only full-text search
  • Open export any time — Markdown + JSON
  • Full read access, forever
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Share to the world, lock what's sensitive, and make it yours.

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited collections
  • Publish entries to a public URL
  • Passphrase-lock entries & collections
  • Rich WYSIWYG editor + embedded media
  • Custom domain + verified badge
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Questions, answered

Is my private writing actually private?

Yes. Every entry is private until you explicitly publish it. Locked entries are removed from every search index and are never written anywhere as plaintext we expose.

What happens to my writing if I downgrade?

Nothing is taken from you. Downgrading freezes editing on existing entries but never touches your ability to read, view, or export them. You can still unpublish or unlock anything — de-escalation is never trapped. Paywall the future, never the past.

Do I need Pro to publish or lock?

Yes. Publishing an entry to a public URL and passphrase-locking entries or collections are Pro capabilities. Free gives you an unlimited private vault — unlimited entries and tags, one collection — with full read and export forever. You just can't share out, lock, or add more collections until you upgrade.

Is the lock real encryption?

The lock is an honest access gate that keeps other people on your device out — it is not end-to-end encryption, and we're upfront about that. Gated content is still never indexed or exposed as plaintext.

Can I really export everything?

Always, on any plan. You get an open .tar.gz archive of Markdown plus a JSON manifest — your words come with you, no lock-in.

Start your vault today

Your private writing space, with a public door you control.