Etch it once.·Fetch it forever.
Etch Writer for Autonomi. etchit is how you save something to a decentralized network and share it with a single address. What you etch stays reachable as long as the network runs — addresses are content-hashes, so the bytes you publish are the bytes that get served, byte-for-byte.
Services lose your data.
Servers shut down.
Your links rot.
Not here.None of these are policies we can change. They're consequences of how etchit is built. The app is a thin client between your device and a public peer-to-peer network — that architecture is the guarantee.
etchit never holds your data, your keys, or your account. There is no etchit server. Every etch lives on a public peer-to-peer network; the app is a thin client between your device and that network.
Nothing routes through us. No account to sign up for, no terms of service that change on you, no surprise migrations between platforms. Your etches are addressable by anyone who has the address.
Private etches never publish their lookup key on the network. Your phone keeps the key locally, encrypted in the Android Keystore, behind biometric auth — fingerprint, face, or device PIN. Without unlocking your device, nobody — including us — can fetch them.
Paste text into the app. Connect your own wallet — any WalletConnect-compatible one works: MetaMask, Rainbow, Trust, OKX. Your wallet pays a small one-time fee to the storage peers.
You get a permanent address. No login needed on either end. Send it in Slack, a text, an email — the link works from any client on the network, for as long as the network runs.
Anyone with the address retrieves exactly what you etched, byte-for-byte. Fetching is always free — you don't need a wallet to fetch, only to etch. The address is the content's hash, so the bytes back out are verifiably the bytes that went in.
Android and desktop, both in beta. Text etches, private etches, encrypted backups — all verified working against the public Autonomi network and Arbitrum One.
Notes, code, long-form — anything that fits as text. You get a permanent address. Public or private; private etches stay locked behind biometric auth on your device.
Paste any address on the network. etchit auto-detects what comes back: text renders inline, files save to Downloads, encrypted backups prompt for decryption.
A 6-word passphrase encrypts your private-etch data maps and ships them to the network as one more etch. Restore on a new device with the backup address + passphrase.
etchit is a primitive, not a product vertical. It matters most to people who've been burned by services that decided what they wrote wasn't theirs.
etchit is open source and in active development. No waitlist, no email capture. Pick a build below, or star the repo to follow along.
Desktop: Mac · Windows · Linux