If you're in crisis
Vitni isn't the right place. In the United States, call 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline on 988, any hour. If it's an emergency, call 911. They're trained for this.
Not in the United States? Find a line in your country
Vitne isn’t a startup. It’s a tool I wrote because I needed it, and then kept writing because a few other people did too.
I built Vitne because the apps I tried either wanted me to log my mood on a scale of one to five, or wanted me to pay a subscription to talk to a chatbot that called me buddy. Neither one is what’s actually happening at 2 AM when you can’t sleep and you don’t want to wake anyone up.
What helped me was writing. Not journaling in the hashtag-journaling sense. Opening a blank file and putting down what was actually in my head. The AI part came later, and only because a specific kind of question, asked at the right time, made me notice things I was avoiding.
So the product is narrow on purpose. It’s a page. It asks one question. It doesn’t remember yesterday unless you tell it to. It can’t be a friend, so it doesn’t pretend.
The privacy thing isn’t marketing. It’s the only way this works. If I could read what you write, I’d be a liability the moment someone asked. So I made it impossible. The keys are on your device. The server holds locked boxes. I hold nothing I can read.
If Vitne helps you, tell me. If it doesn’t, tell me that too. fredrik@vitne.so. I read every message myself.
— Fredrik
"Vitne" is Norwegian for witness. It replaced the old name, Mune, in July 2026, after another company turned out to hold that word. The forced move was the better one. Watching is what other apps do, a camera on your behavior, counting and scoring. Witnessing asks for nothing back. It lets the thought have happened. And the witness is you: what you write is encrypted on your device before it leaves it, so you see your own thinking, then decide what it was worth.
I live in Oslo. That’s the simplest reason. Norway also has strong privacy law and strong personal-data protection. For a tool that holds the things you wouldn’t say out loud, that’s a useful place to be domiciled. I’m not going to oversell this. Most of the protection is the cryptography. The jurisdiction is the second line.
Public beta right now. Things will break. Decisions will be reversed. The product won't look exactly like it does today by the time it settles. If you want to use it while it finds its shape, read about the public beta.
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The product never tries to re-engage you. Coming back is your choice, not a notification’s.
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The AI has no name, no avatar, no pretend personality. It’s a tool, and it’s honest about being one.
Feedback, questions, or press. Same address. I answer within a few days.
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Your words don’t improve a model. Mine, anyone else’s. Ever.
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Export in one click. Delete in one click. The exits are always where you left them.
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Vitne isn’t therapy and won’t pretend to be. If you need care, it says so and steps back.
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The business is small on purpose. One person, no investors. Nothing about the product is optimised for growth metrics.