A home of your own, for your digital life.
Think about where your things live right now. The photos of the people you love are in one company's cloud. Your passwords in another's. Your tax papers in a third. You pay rent to each of them, and each of them can change the rules, raise the price, read along, or lock the door.
Eigenheim brings it all home. Your passwords, files, photos, music and the things you save live on your own phone and your own laptop, and the two keep each other up to date. No company sits in between. There's no account to create, and nobody to ask for permission.
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A day with it
In the morning you see a recipe on your phone and save it. By the evening it's on your laptop too, with the video, even if the post has long been deleted.
At lunch you sign in to a shop with your fingerprint. A second later, your laptop knows that login as well.
In the afternoon you delete the wrong folder. It's waiting for you in Recently deleted, for thirty days, on every device.
And when your laptop spends a week in a drawer, nothing is lost. If you like, a small server of your own keeps a copy and keeps everything in step while your devices sleep. Think of it as a storage room you rent, instead of leaving your things at someone else's house.
What it isn't (yet)
It's young, and it's made by one person. It works on Android and the Mac today; the iPhone is behind. It's less polished than something a trillion-dollar company builds, and it can't reach as deep into your phone as the phone maker's own cloud can. What it gives you in return: everything is yours, and it stays yours.
Why I'm building it
I live in Wuppertal. One day I tried to get my digital life off the big clouds and spent the whole day wiring eight different self-hosting tools together: one for passwords, one for files, one for photos, one for syncing them, and so on. At the end of the day it sort of worked, and I thought: this should just be one app that anyone can use. So I'm building it.
How it works, for the curious
Your devices sync directly with each other over an end-to-end encrypted connection; on different networks they meet through a relay that only passes encrypted bytes. Everything is stored as plain files where it can be, so it outlives the app. The code is open source (MIT), written in Zig, Rust, Swift and Kotlin.