Stonequill is a private journal sealed with a key only you hold, written to a permanent network designed to last centuries. No account. No company servers. No subscription.
Launching for Mac. One-time price. No mailing-list spam — one email when it ships.
Every journaling app rents you access to your own life: monthly fees, company clouds, terms of service. Stop paying — or they pivot, get acquired, shut down — and decades of your writing are at someone else's mercy.
Stonequill generates 24 words and walks you through writing them on paper — then proves your paper works before your first entry. The words never leave your desk. We never see them.
Journal on your Mac. Each entry is encrypted on your machine, then sealed to the Arweave permanent-storage network — where deleting isn't merely forbidden, it's impossible.
New computer? House fire? Twenty years of silence? Type your 24 words on any machine running Stonequill and your entire journal returns, byte for byte.
Don't take our word for it — we filmed the funeral.
In our demo, we destroy every local copy of a journal, then resurrect all of it from a piece of paper. That's not a feature list. That's the product.
▶ Watch the recovery drill (coming with launch)
No — and this is a promise, not a limitation. Entries are permanent by design. If you want the power to erase your history, Stonequill is genuinely not for you. (Destroying your key renders everything unreadable forever — cryptographers call it crypto-shredding — but the sealed data itself cannot be unpublished.)
Your journal becomes permanently unreadable. Nobody — not us, not anyone — can recover it. That's the same property that makes it private. The setup ceremony exists precisely so this never happens: it forces the paper backup and rehearses the recovery before you write a single word.
Nothing. Your entries live on a public permanent network, your key lives on your paper, and the file format is openly documented — any developer could rebuild a reader. Stonequill is designed to be unnecessary.
The storage layer (Arweave) is, yes — sorry. We chose it for one boring reason: it's the only storage design where data is paid for once and replicated for centuries. There are no tokens to buy, no wallet apps, no crypto anything in your experience.
You. That's the complete list. Entries are encrypted on your machine before anything touches the network; what's stored publicly is indistinguishable from random noise, padded so even the length of your entries is hidden.