About Haven
Haven is an Android app designed to protect personal spaces and belongings without compromising privacy. Using on-device sensors, it monitors motion, sound, vibration, and light to detect intrusions. Ideal for journalists, activists, and at-risk individuals, Haven leverages Signal and Tor for secure notifications and remote access. All data is stored locally, ensuring privacy and control.
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You can install Haven by downloading it from Google Play, installing F-Droid and adding the Haven Nightly repository, grabbing the APK files from the GitHub releases page, or building the app yourself from source.
Haven is not currently available for iPhone, but you can use an inexpensive Android phone as your Haven device and configure it to send encrypted notifications to your iPhone via Signal or access logs remotely using the Onion Browser app.
Haven only records when triggered by sound and motion and stores everything locally on the device. It uses encrypted messaging and onion routing technologies like Signal and Tor to secure communications.
Haven monitors the accelerometer (phone's motion and vibration), camera (motion in the phone's visible surroundings), microphone (noises in the environment), light (change in light from ambient light sensor), and power (detect device being unplugged or power loss).
Notifications can be sent through SMS or Signal if configured. You can set a phone number to receive messages when sensors are triggered. Signal notifications are end-to-end encrypted.
Yes, you can remotely access all event logs and captured media through a Tor Onion Service. This requires configuring Haven as an Onion Service and having Orbot: Tor for Android installed and running on the device.
The application's main view allows you to select which sensors to use and adjust their corresponding levels of sensitivity. You can customize the settings to best detect intrusions into your environment.
Yes, a security code is required to disable monitoring. This code must be provided by the user to ensure that monitoring cannot be easily turned off by unauthorized individuals.
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