on-device vault · open source · zero-knowledge
Tap to read. A few seconds later it blurs back,
before anyone else can see it.
MyGlimpse keeps the WiFi password, a photo of the back of your router, the company ID number you blank on at a gas station register. It opens with the same Face ID or fingerprint as your phone, shows a secret for eight seconds, then blurs it back on its own. The vault lives on your phone, encrypted, and nowhere else: no cloud copy, no server of ours ever touches it. The keys are made on your device and never leave it. Your data stays yours to take with you, exported any time as a single password-protected file. There is no account to make and nothing to sign into.
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0 servers that can read your data0 accounts1 view before a shared link burns$0
offline, always. that's the whole point.
8 glimpses · on this device only
[ 01 ] what it is
It is not a password manager. A password manager can hold almost anything now, from logins and passkeys to cards and SSH keys, but every entry has to be filed and kept in order. Nobody does that for a bike lock combo, so the small stuff stays in your head instead, which works right up until the day it doesn't.
- WiFi password
- Door keypad
- Alarm code
- Company ID
- Bike lock combo
- Garage remote
- Airbnb lockbox
- Car registration
- Gym locker
- Router admin
[ 02 ] the first run
Open it once, and you have a vault in about a minute.
There is no sign-up, no email, no code sent to your phone. You open the app, it makes a vault right there on the device, and you unlock it the same way you unlock the phone itself. Three screens, then you're in.
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Make a vault
No account to create. A tap makes the vault, encrypted, on the phone.
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Lock it to you
Your fingerprint or face for speed, a passphrase as backup. The key is sealed in the phone's secure chip and never leaves.
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Keep a way back
A 24-word code, plus optional encrypted backup file. It is the only offline copy, because nobody, us included, holds your keys.
What happens under the hood: the app generates an encryption key on your device and seals it in the phone's secure hardware (Android StrongBox, iOS Secure Enclave), where your fingerprint or face unlocks it. Your passphrase and the 24 words are your offline way back in. Nothing is uploaded, and no server ever sees a key. The full cryptography →
[ 03 ] how it works
The whole loop, in four frames.
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Save it once
Type the code, or photograph the sticker. It is encrypted before it ever touches the disk.
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Locked in your phone
The key sits in the secure chip, behind the fingerprint you already use. No account, no cloud.
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Tap to reveal
The value shows big and grouped while a countdown runs. Hold to pause it when you need a moment longer.
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It blurs back
Eight seconds later the screen re-blurs on its own. Nothing left for the person behind you.
[ 04 ] the gesture
The screen is where a secret gets read over your shoulder. So it shows for eight seconds, then blurs.
Encryption keeps a secret safe while it sits on your phone. It does nothing in the one moment the secret is actually exposed: lit up on a bright screen in a queue or on a train, where the person behind you or a nosy neighbour can read it in a single glance. So you tap the card, the value appears, a countdown runs, and it blurs back on its own. Because that window is short on purpose, a long value is shown grouped into blocks of four, the rhythm your eye already knows from a card number, so you read it right the first time instead of revealing it twice. Eight seconds is the default, not a rule. Every glimpse is yours to tune: a tighter five seconds for the bike lock, a longer window for the WiFi you read aloud, or no countdown at all for the ones you would rather leave open until you dismiss them yourself. Holding the pill pauses the countdown when you need a moment longer, capped so a secret can't be pinned on screen. The safe behaviour is the default; the control is yours, glimpse by glimpse. The same instinct runs through the rest of the app: it locks itself the moment you switch away, and a value you copy is wiped from the clipboard a moment later.
the screen is the weakest link. so that's the part I built the hardest.
[ 05 ] beyond four digits
Photograph the router sticker, or your bike lock combo.
Not every secret is something you can type. Some you would rather just photograph and read back later: the label on the back of the router, the bike lock combo, a serial number, or your passport and ID when you travel. The photo is stored encrypted like any other glimpse and hidden behind the same tap to reveal, so a picture of your passport never sits in your camera roll syncing to the cloud, and you find it in a second when a check-in desk asks for it. No more pulling the router out from behind the TV every time you need the password printed on it. And when you keep saving the same shape of thing, you can turn it into a template so the fields are ready the next time.
[ 06 ] travelling
Both sides of your ID, ready before the desk asks for them.
The app ships an ID Card template for exactly this: photograph the front, photograph the back, done. Both sides live encrypted behind the same tap to reveal instead of loose in your camera roll, syncing to whatever cloud your phone backs up to. At the check-in desk, the border, the rental counter, you find them in a second, flip between the sides, and send either one straight into WhatsApp or whichever chat the clerk is already staring at.
hotels always ask for the back. always.
[ 08 ] price
- $0
- forever
- 0
- accounts
- 0
- emails collected
- 0
- trackers
There is no Pro tier and no "Family plan." It's free because something that never phones home costs me almost nothing to run. The heavy lifting happens on your phone, not on a server I'd have to pay for. If that ever changes, it changes in the open, in the repo.
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I built it because of a gas station register. The cashier asked for my company's ID number, the one I type often enough to assume I know it, and my mind went blank. It was in my email. My email needed internet. The internet, of course, chose that exact moment to drop. So I stood there, tired and holding up the line, hunting for digits I'd have recited in my sleep the day before. I wanted something trivial sitting on my phone that needs no signal, no login, and no waiting. I never actually checked whether something like it already existed. I'd been wanting to build something of my own for a while, and this was a good enough excuse to finally scratch the itch, in Zagreb, under the Converge name. If you find a bug in the crypto, open an issue. I'd rather hear it from you than from someone quieter.
[ from converge ]
A small thing from a studio that builds bigger ones.
MyGlimpse is made by Converge, a product studio in Zagreb. Most of the work here goes into Workplace.hr, the operational system small businesses run on: documents, contracts, the team, time off, equipment, a role-gated vault, expenses, and the insights that surface once all of it lives in one place. MyGlimpse is the same hands on a smaller problem. If you like how this one is built, that is where the larger version lives.
same hands, same care. just a bigger surface.
Converge · Zagreb