Our App, Save
Anyone with a phone can expose global injustice. Those with Save can preserve truth to power.
Secure
Send your media securely and lock the app with a pin.
Archive
Keep your media verifiable, safe and organized for the long term by uploading it to a server like Nextcloud, the Internet Archive, or Google Drive.
Communicate your intentions for future use by adding a Creative Commons license.
Verify
Authenticate and verify your media with sha256 hashes and ProofMode.
Encrypt
Save always uploads over TLS (Transport Layer Security) to protect your media in transit.
To further enhance security, enable Tor to prevent interception of your media while it travels from your phone to its destination.
Secure
Send your media securely and lock the app with a pin.
Archive
Keep your media verifiable, safe and organized for the long term by uploading it to a server like Nextcloud, the Internet Archive, or Google Drive.
Communicate your intentions for future use by adding a Creative Commons license.
Verify
Authenticate and verify your media with sha256 hashes and ProofMode.
Encrypt
Save always uploads over TLS (Transport Layer Security) to protect your media in transit.
To further enhance security, enable Tor to prevent interception of your media while it travels from your phone to its destination.
About Save
Save is an easy-to-use mobile app designed to help you verify, share, and preserve your mobile media while protecting your identity. It's free, open-source, and available for iOS and Android.
Our smartphone media plays a critical role in exposing global injustice every day — however eyewitnesses and human rights defenders need better tools to ensure their mobile evidence is safely shared and stored. Enter Save. Designed with and for human rights communities, the app shifts power into the hands of those on the frontlines by streamlining media workflows to facilitate rapid response and reporting. With Save, you can now safely secure, archive, verify, and encrypt your media without fear of censorship, surveillance, or retribution.
Getting Started
Download the app (iOS, Android), read our How to Use Save Guide, and watch our video tutorials.
Features
Unlike other media-sharing tools, Save offers a suite of responsive features that streamline secure preservation based on community input and our commitment to digital inclusion.
Authenticate media
With Save, you ensure your media is always authenticated because you have full control—without interference from intermediaries—from phone to archive. And, when paired with ProofMode (available now for Android, iOS coming soon), you can even add sensor data to corroborate the metadata captured alongside your media.
Secure transit
Save always uses TLS (Transport Layer Security) to ensure in-transit security and encryption. When you enable Tor for mobile (either via Orbot: Tor for Android or Onion Browser for iOS), you add an additional layer of protection to ensure no one intercepts your media as it travels from your phone to the Internet Archive or your server of choice.
Long-term Preservation
When you use Save to archive your mobile media in a trusted archive (such as the Internet Archive or OwnCloud), you ensure unobstructed access for generations to come. This is in stark contrast to popular social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, which aren’t committed to long-term media preservation.
Licensing
With Save you can communicate your intentions for future use by easily generating a Creative Commons license in-app allowing others to reuse or modify your work.
Stay Organized
Save's easy-to-use design allows teams and individuals to seamlessly streamline media from many phones into organized folders specific to each contributor.
Add Metadata
Save lets you add metadata like location, people, and notes to your archived media.
Flag Significant Content
You can flag certain media as “significant” to alert reviewers that this folder contains sensitive/violent media or just use it as a “favorites” folder.
Import Media
Save allows you to import and share media from other apps on your phone, including audio, notes, and pdf files.
Improve Redundancy
With Save you can further protect your media by creating and storing multiple copies on different secure servers. Whether hosting locally or remotely, your data can be encrypted on the backend and only accessible by who you want.
View Progress
When storing media via Save, you can view how much content has been uploaded.
Prioritize Uploads
Prioritize particular media to upload first over others (e.g., order smallest files first and largest files last).
Who We Serve
We designed Save with and for human rights defenders worldwide, including:
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Human rights organizations collecting evidence of human rights violations
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Archivists and librarians creating community collections at the Internet Archive or other digital libraries
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Academic organizations accepting targeted media from the field
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Individuals, freelance documentarians, and citizen journalists curating their own mobile media collections
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Journalists and news organizations receiving sensitive information from vulnerable sources whose identity and information must be protected from interception
