hearth.
Software that feels like home

Your life. Your identity. Your home. Hearth.

An identity, payments, and communications platform that lives on your devices, not in the cloud.

Download Hearth Windows · Android · iOS soon
What it is

The internet was built around networks. Hearth is built around you.

Your identity is a key generated on your phone. It never leaves. Every action you take — sending a message, signing a payment, hosting a website, watching a film — derives from that one key, on your hand, in your pocket.

No accounts. No passwords. No email signup. No cloud holding your data hostage. No company between you and the people you talk to.

What it does

Six pillars. One key.

Everything Hearth does derives from the same Ed25519 key generated on your phone. Lose the phone, recover the key. Compromise nothing.

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Identity

Your IRK lives on your phone. The world identifies you by a key, not a username. No password ever again.

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Payments

Wallet addresses derived from your key. Stellar, Solana, more on the way. Pay anyone, anywhere, no Visa, no Stripe.

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Messaging

End-to-end encrypted, signed by you, relayed without your data being stored. LAN-direct when you're on the same network.

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Media

Watch, listen, go live, discover. HearthMedia turns every device — phone, desktop, TV — into a sovereign creator and audience.

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Business

Invoicing, point of sale, subscriptions, CRM — persona to persona. Replaces Xero, Square, Stripe, Salesforce. Your data stays local.

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Hosting

Every persona can serve a website from their own device. Mini Node + Site Relay + IPFS publishing. No AWS. No Cloudflare. Your persona is the host.

What's shipping

The apps that live in your hearth.

First-party Hearth apps, each leveraging the same persona identity, the same wallet, the same encrypted channel. Install one, log into all of them.

Live 🖥️

Hearth Desktop

Tauri-based shell for Windows. Frameless, persona-switching, dark/light, sovereign omnibar. The command centre.

Live 📱

Hearth Authenticator

The phone app that holds your IRK. Biometric approval for every sensitive operation. Pairs with desktop via QR.

Building 📺

HearthMedia

Watch, Listen, Live, Discover. Four pillars of sovereign media on desktop, mobile, and Android TV. Distributed via the Hearth App Store.

Live 🌐

HearthSync

WordPress plugin for managing client sites from Hearth Desktop. First commercial deployment in use today.

Building 📣

Broadcaster

Cross-platform sovereign social publisher. Nostr, Farcaster, Bluesky, X — one persona, every network.

Designed 🫂

HearthFund

GoFundMe alternative. Zero-fee donations via Stellar USDC or AUDD. Milestone-based escrow, persona-verified campaigns.

Why we're building this
Your identity is a key.
Your key never leaves your device.
Everything else follows from that.

The internet was built on the assumption that identity would be solved later. It wasn't. Instead we got passwords, data brokers, surveillance capitalism, and trillion-dollar companies whose entire business model is knowing everything about you.

Hearth is the alternative. Not a replacement for one company, but a different starting point for the whole thing.

Come home.

Download Hearth Desktop and the Authenticator. Pair in under thirty seconds. No accounts to create. Nothing to remember but yourself.