The stance, not the feature list
Zero cloud by default
Every journaling app defaults to cloud sync — it's their business model. We don't have one. No server storage, no account required to run the core app.
Grounded in your archive
Readings reference your own dream history through retrieval, not a static symbol dictionary. A single dream is read as part of a series it belongs to.
Honest about mechanism
Never a verdict. Every reading is framed as a question back, every reference as further reading — never proof. You see exactly what the model can and can't know.
Capture it before it fades
Dreams dissolve within minutes of waking. The mobile companion lets you speak a dream the instant you surface — transcribed entirely on-device, never leaving your phone, synced to your vault on your own terms.
Why this exists
"Self-knowledge shouldn't come with a privacy policy." Ask your mum which she'd rather have: her dreams interpreted by a server she's never seen, or kept entirely her own. That's the whole pitch, in one sentence.
Symbols, explored — never defined
A snake in your dream has shown up in Egyptian, Jungian, Vedic, and Norse material for thousands of years — as transformation, as shadow, as the body's own wisdom, as warning. None of these is "the" meaning. AnimaVault surfaces that cross-cultural material as a prompt for your own reading, not a substitute for it — the dreamer's own words always outrank the corpus, every time.
Aboriginal Dreamtime material is deliberately held out — it needs a community-consulted decision before it's added, not just a copyright check. Alchemical texts were considered and nothing met the bar yet.
Built to run entirely on-device — tuned and improving, not a finished system.
How it's built
In active development
AnimaVault is being built in the open with a hard rule: no fake features, ever. If it's shown here, it works.