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The check-in loop

A switch is armed as long as you keep checking in. Each check-in is a deliberate action — you confirm it with a PIN (or your device biometrics) so a check-in is never an accidental tap. Checking in resets the deadline to the full interval. You pick the rhythm with a safety preset, or set your own:

The grace window

If a deadline passes, the switch does not fire immediately. It enters a grace window and starts warning you — across push, email, and (on Pro) SMS. Every warning has a one-tap “I’m here” that instantly re-arms the switch. Only when the grace window fully elapses — after all the warnings — does the switch fire.
There is a hard safety floor: a switch can never fire less than 48 hours after its deadline, and it must always warn you on at least two channels first. No custom setting can lower that.

Actions

A switch fires one or more actions, delivered to the recipients you chose:

Message

A text message or farewell letter. Send it end-to-end encrypted, or — if it’s low-stakes — as a normal readable email. Your choice, clearly labelled.

Encrypted file or secret

Release a file, a set of credentials, or instructions. Always zero-knowledge — encrypted on your device, opened only by your recipient with the passphrase you shared out-of-band.

Private page

A hosted page that opens for your chosen recipients via a private link. Same encryption options as a message.

What fires a switch

In this version, a switch fires on inactivity only — a missed check-in plus the elapsed grace period. That already covers what matters: if you’re gone, you stop checking in. There is no way for anyone else to trigger your switch early.