Why Aeternum
Protect your memories with a real digital legacy
Photos and video scattered across clouds and phones do not add up to a record of a life. Aeternum gives them one home, built for permanence, privacy and connection.
What Aeternum is
A private, secure, inheritable vault for the things that make up a life — and for the context that gives them meaning. Think of it as a digital heirloom rather than another storage bucket: easily shared with the connections who belong in it, never exposed to anyone else.
Secure
Encrypted in transit and at rest, with long-term access planning and your files downloadable from your Archive whenever you want them.
Digital inheritance
Plan the hand-off with confidence, across generations.
Private by design
Connection-only, with granular permissions on every memory.
Safe interactions
No public content, no ads, no algorithmic feed.
The problem
Most memories quietly disappear
Billions of moments are created every day and most vanish into a feed or die with a hard drive. Not because anyone decided they did not matter, but because nothing was built to keep them.
- Scattered memories
- Photos and video spread across a dozen apps, phones and drives, with no single home.
- No inheritance plan
- Almost no platform accounts for what happens to your account when you are gone.
- Privacy as the price
- Big tech owns the data and profits from your engagement with it.
The difference
Built for people, not for algorithms
- Elsewhere: Optimised for engagement
- With Aeternum: Optimised for meaning
- Elsewhere: Your memories sell ads
- With Aeternum: Your subscription pays for storage
- Elsewhere: An algorithm decides what resurfaces
- With Aeternum: You decide what is kept and shown
- Elsewhere: Accounts are deleted or memorialised
- With Aeternum: Vaults are inherited, intact
- Elsewhere: Public by default
- With Aeternum: Private by default
Worth reading
The legal view on digital legacy
We sat down with Akash Purewal of Bennett Jones to ask what actually happens to your digital life in an estate — and where a vault fits.
Read the interviewStart your vault today
Free to begin. No ads, no data mining, and your memories stay yours.
Aeternum works in any browser today. Native iOS and Android apps arrive with our Beta in Q4 2026.