Some Things Are Better Said Later
There are things people mean to say and never quite do — not because they don't matter, but because there's never an obviously right moment. A birthday nine years from now isn't a moment yet. Neither is "if I go quiet for too long." Most tools for writing things down assume you want to say them today. InCase assumes you might not.
InCase is a time-triggered encrypted delivery system. You write a capsule — a message, a document, whatever you want someone to have — and it stays sealed until a condition you set is met: a specific date, or a period of inactivity on your end. Until then, nobody can read it. Not a recipient who stumbles across it, not a service provider, not us.
How the sealing actually works
Everything is encrypted on your device before it ever reaches our servers, using AES-256 with a key derived from a phrase only you know (PBKDF2, 100,000 iterations, if you care about the specifics). That phrase never leaves your device. We store ciphertext — encrypted noise — and nothing else. We can't preview a capsule, recover a forgotten key phrase, or hand over plaintext to anyone who asks, because we genuinely don't have it. The tradeoff is real: lose your key phrase and the content is gone with it. That's the cost of a system where "we cannot read your content" is a fact about the architecture, not a promise about our intentions.
What it's for, and what it isn't
A capsule can be a letter to a future birthday, a set of instructions you want a specific person to have if you can't explain them yourself later, or just something you're not ready to say out loud yet but want said eventually. What it is not — and we're explicit about this — is a legal will, a testament, or a financial instrument. InCase has no legal standing, isn't a bank or an asset custodian, and shouldn't stand in for a lawyer or a financial advisor. It's built for words and information that matter to someone, not for anything that needs a notary.
Where it stands today
InCase is live now on the App Store, with Android arriving on Google Play shortly. Deleting your account is a one-tap action inside the app — no support ticket required — and takes your capsules, your entries, and your account itself with it, immediately and permanently.