Keep your most sensitive data safe — and make sure it doesn't disappear with you.
SafeTale is a digital vault for Windows. Store your passwords, your phone's unlock codes and your private writings. Name one person you trust: they only ever receive access if you stop checking in within the delay you set.
Free · Windows 7 and later · 64-bit
100% free — no subscription, no limits, no advertising
Encrypted on your machine, before anything is sent
You set the delay, you push it back, you can switch it off
When someone goes, they take their passwords with them.
An online bank account nobody has the login for. A locked phone holding every photograph. A subscription that keeps being paid for three years. Wishes nobody will ever find.
This is not about wealth, and it is not about secrets. It is about continuity: the people you love will need to know. SafeTale exists so that this knowledge does not die with you — without you having to hand it to anyone while you are still here.
Three moves, and it's done.
You put away what matters.
Install SafeTale on your PC and fill your vault: your account passwords, your phone's PIN, its PUK code and its unlock pattern, and anything you want to write down — explanations, instructions, a letter. Everything is encrypted on your computer before it is sent.
You name one person.
Just one. The person you would call at three in the morning. You enter their e-mail address and choose a delay: thirty days, six months, two years — you decide. They receive a simple courtesy message: someone trusts them. No access, no data, nothing to do.
You check in.
Your dashboard shows the time remaining, and one button resets it: "Push access back by 30 days." It's an alarm clock in reverse — as long as you keep pushing it back, it never rings. The day you can no longer push it back, it rings once, for one person.
One vault, four drawers.
Passwords
Application, username, password. As many as you like, with no cap on the number. One click to copy, one click to hide.
One person. Chosen by you. Told with tact.
When you name someone, SafeTale sends them a courtesy message: "A SafeTale user trusts you." Nothing more. They learn that somebody thought of them, and that is all they learn.
- They have no access to your vault, and will have none for as long as you keep checking in.
- They do not know what you keep in it. The message does not say.
- Nothing is expected of them. The message tells them so explicitly.
- You can change person, or name nobody at all, at any time.
And because it is the most consequential setting in the application, it never takes effect on a single click: any change is held pending and must be confirmed from your mailbox, through a link valid for ten minutes. Without that confirmation, nothing changes.
Encrypted on your machine. Not merely "at our end".
The key is made at your place.
When you sign up, your computer generates a random encryption key (AES-256). It never leaves your machine in the clear.
Your data leaves already unreadable.
Titles, text, category names, passwords, PIN, PUK code, unlock pattern: everything is encrypted before it is sent, with a different initialisation vector for each item.
Your password is stored nowhere.
We keep only an irreversible fingerprint of it (bcrypt). Twelve characters minimum, with an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a digit and a special character required.
Our back-office displays no content.
No preview, no excerpt, no "reveal" button. Metadata and counters, full stop. Every administrator action is written to an immutable log kept for five years.
What we don't claim
Most digital vaults promise that nobody — not even the company behind them — can read your data. We don't make that promise, and we would rather explain why.
For your trusted person to open your vault when the time comes, our server has to be able to send them a readable backup password. So it has to be able to decrypt it. That is imposed by the transmission mechanism itself, and no technical trick gets around it.
We wrote a whole page about this trade-off and about SafeTale's other limits. It is there to be read before you download, not after.
Free. And nothing to sell you afterwards.
No subscription, no "Pro" edition, no quota on passwords or notes. No advertising, no trackers, no data resale. Nowhere in SafeTale is there any means of charging you for anything, and that is not an oversight.
SafeTale is published by CodeCrafted. It came out of a personal need, not a business plan.
« I wrote SafeTale first for myself and for the people close to me. Too often, around me, someone was lost and those left behind stood in front of a locked phone, inaccessible accounts and a great many unanswered questions. I wanted a simple object that settles that — and a technical challenge my own size. I have been working on it for years, and I still am. »
David Meunier, founder of CodeCrafted
Read the full storyTen minutes today. A great deal of relief later.
Download for Windows.msi file · Windows 7 and later, 64-bit · Automatic updates · Free, with no paid tier
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