Where your writing lives

Two places

Every entry is written to your device first — which is why Dayspring works on a plane and never makes you wait for a spinner before you can type.

It’s then synced to our servers so it can reach your other devices and so you don’t lose your journal with a lost laptop.

Who can read it

Your entries are yours. We don’t sell them, we don’t share them, we don’t train anything on them, and we don’t read them for interest.

Encryption — the honest version

Your writing is encrypted in transit and encrypted at rest on our servers.

It is not end-to-end encrypted. That means we hold the keys, and in principle we could read your entries. We don’t, and access is restricted — but you should decide based on what’s true rather than what sounds reassuring.

This is a real trade-off, not an oversight. End-to-end encryption would rule out everything Dayspring does when you’re not looking: no Lamp, no Altar, no Ascent, no asking a question of your own journal. Those need the server to be able to read your writing.

We think that trade is worth it for what you get, and we think you’re entitled to know you’re making it. If it isn’t the right trade for you, that’s a completely reasonable conclusion.

Sharing a device

If two people use Dayspring on the same computer, signing in as one clears the other’s cached writing first. One person’s journal never appears under another person’s account.

Anonymous usage

There’s a Share anonymous usage switch in Settings → About, on by default. It counts which features get used — that the Lamp was opened, that an import ran. It never includes anything you wrote. Turn it off and nothing else changes.

Leaving

You can download everything at any time, in plain Markdown with your photos as real files. Not a proprietary format, not an export queue, not an emailed link that expires.

We’d rather be a place you stay because you want to.