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Getting started
What is Toldari?
Toldari is an app for staying close to the people who matter. You add the people you care about, and for each one you keep the things that are easy to forget: how you met, their interests, important dates, open follow-ups, and a log of your past catch-ups. You choose how often you'd like to stay in touch, and Toldari reminds you when it has been too long. After you see someone, you can note how it went and plan the next get-together. It is not a social network or a CRM, and everything stays private on your device.
Do I need an account to use Toldari?
No. Toldari has no account system for its core experience and requires no sign-up, so you can download it and start adding the people who matter right away. Signing in is only needed if you choose Premium.
Where is my data stored? Does it work offline?
Your people, notes, plans, and reminders are stored locally on your device, so the core experience works offline. Except where noted for Premium features, we never store your data on a server. Even then it is encrypted with a recovery code that we never store off your device, so we still can't read it.
What devices can I use Toldari on?
Toldari is live now on Google Play for Android. An iOS version for the Apple App Store is coming soon, and web access for Premium users is on the roadmap.
How do the check-in nudges work?
Toldari taps you on the shoulder when it has been too long since you connected with someone, never a guilt trip. You decide how often you want to be nudged, and notifications are optional, used only if you enable them.
Pricing
If I buy Standard, is it really mine forever?
Yes, actually forever. Standard is a one-time purchase. Subscribe to Premium later, cancel it whenever, and your Standard access doesn't budge. The full heart of Toldari stays yours, for good.
Is Standard a stripped-down version?
Not even a little. Standard is the complete, feature-rich heart of Toldari: the whole experience of staying close to your people. It's not a trial or a teaser. Premium just adds a few extra options on top, if you want them.
Why is Premium a subscription instead of a one-time purchase?
Because Premium leans on things that cost a little to run every month: web servers, storage, address autocomplete services, etc. A subscription is just the honest way to keep work going that never really stops. It starts with 7 days free and can be cancelled any time.
Privacy & data
Do you collect or sell any of my data?
Never. Toldari is built so your life here stays yours, never mined, never sold, never handed to anyone. We earn a living when people buy the app, not by turning you into the product. (Even Premium's cloud backups stay encrypted, so we can't read them.)
Can you read my Premium backups?
No. Premium backups are end-to-end encrypted, so they stay private to you and we can't read them. Premium is the only part of Toldari that involves any server-side processing, and only for the specific feature you choose to use.
What happens to my data if I cancel Premium?
Your data comes home untouched. Everything still lives on your phone first, and any cloud copies from backup are purged on a schedule. Cancelling Premium never affects your Standard access.
Premium
How does private profile sharing work?
You pick what you want to share and Toldari creates a private link on your phone to send however you like. Only someone with the link can open it, it expires automatically, it can only be opened a few times, and it is never searchable or public. Everything is locked before it leaves your phone, so even we can't see what is inside.
Want to get more technical?
Behind the scenes, a share moves like this:
- Your phone makes a one-time code and uses it to encrypt your profile, right there on the device.
- Only the encrypted blob goes to our server, never the code. The server stores it with an automatic expiry and a limited number of opens, then returns a share link with a reference ID that points to it.
- Your app tacks the code onto the end of that link as a URL fragment, the part after the # symbol, which browsers keep on the device and never send when they request data.
- You send the full link to your person however you like: text, email, any channel you choose.
- When they open it, our server checks the share is still live, not expired and within its open limit, before handing over the standalone share page and your encrypted profile.
- That page reads the code from the link and decrypts everything locally, right in their browser.
The code never reaches us, so all we ever hold is a blob we can't read.