our system has been building for the past year and a half, and we're finally ready to share:
Prism is a plural system tracking and communication app. free, open source, and end-to-end encrypted. the server literally cannot read your data. we built it because we wanted something we could actually trust with our own system's history, and nothing that existed felt like enough.
fronting logs with nuance — co-fronters, confidence levels, notes per session. view your history as a list or a full timeline. there's a press-and-hold Quick Front for when you just need to log a switch fast and don't want to bother with a whole form.
an actual chat for talking to each other — reactions, replies, voice notes, proxy tags, images, GIFs. 1:1 DMs and custom channels. unread messages are tracked per-member, so nothing gets missed between fronts.
polls for when the whole system needs a say — anonymous or not, multiple choice, expiring. decisions feel collective instead of unilateral.
habits that are fronting-aware — streaks, assignments, and notifications follow whoever's out. sleep logging with quality ratings. analytics that show the shape of your days across the whole system.
there's more — member profiles, journals, analytics, and importing from Simply Plural and syncing with PluralKit so your history comes with you. PluralKit proxy tags even work in Prism's chat.
Prism is free and will stay free. no subscriptions, no paywalled features. it's local-first — your data lives on your devices, and the relay only moves encrypted blobs between them. and because it's fully open source, if we ever can't keep running it, anyone can spin up their own relay and keep it alive. plural tools have a bad track record of disappearing and taking years of data with them, and we didn't want to do that to anyone else.
private beta opens soon. if you want early access:
https://prismplural.com/beta/
come hang out on Discord too if you want:
https://discord.gg/32Qfhd6jMM
About AI: we used AI coding tools while building Prism. we're a designer and developer with over a decade of experience, and it let us build something that would have otherwise taken an entire team. we know that's not everyone's favorite thing to hear and we get it — if you want to see exactly what's in the codebase, it's all public.
We really hope you'll try Prism if you think it'll be a good fit for your system, it has been for ours.