This is written from what the app does, not from a template. It is short because Birthed does not collect much.
Last updated October 18, 2026.
Birthed never asks for your name, email address, phone number, or a password. There is no sign up.
When you first open Birthed it silently creates an anonymous account with our account service, so that your profile can be counted and restored. The birthday, the birth year, the region and the February 29 preference are sent to that account. The account is identified by a random token stored in your phone's keychain, not by anything about you.
Four numbers about your own use of the app go to that same account, so that we can tell whether Birthed actually works for people:
That is the whole list, and each one is a single current number rather than a history. There is no record of when you opened the app, what you looked at, or what you tapped, and nothing is timestamped. Deleting the app resets all four.
The account service is Supabase, which hosts the database on servers in the United States. The covers on the songs people named on the website between October 3 and October 18, 2026 come from Apple, and the articles a suggestion names come from Wikipedia, each asked by our server and our database rather than by your browser or your phone, as described under the website below. The pictures on the hive's event tiles are copies of freely licensed pictures from Wikimedia Commons, stored with the same service and served from its address, so your browser asks Supabase for those pictures and asks Wikimedia for nothing. The website you are reading is served by Render.
The Mine tab shows specific things that happened on the day you were born, and those are found by a model that searches the web, Google's Gemini service. To ask it, the Birthed server sends the month, the day, the birth year and the region you typed, and nothing else. Your account and the token that identifies it stay behind, so what Google is asked is a date and a place, not a person.
The answers are stored under the date rather than under you, so the next person born on the same day is shown what was already found instead of causing a new search. If you tap the thumbs up on one of those facts, that is recorded against your anonymous account, which is how it is counted once and how you can take it back.
The same is true of the heart on "The world when you arrived". What is recorded there is the subject, such as Minecraft or the iPhone, and not the sentence you were shown, because that sentence is worked out on your phone from your birth year and it never leaves it. So the record says that one account liked Minecraft. It does not say what it said to you, or what year you were born.
Birthed can make you a link that asks somebody for their birthday. They open it, fill in their name and their date, and press send. This is the only feature in Birthed where one person's information passes through our server on the way to another person, and it works like this.
Nothing is sent to anybody's phone by our server, because there is no such thing here. The app checks when you open it. If you would rather nothing passed through us at all, the "send yours" link described further down does the same job with no server involved, and it is still there.
The app can tell you how many Birthed users share your birthday. That number is computed on the server from birthdays alone, is never shown below a small floor, and never exposes anyone's record.
birthed.app has no accounts, no analytics service, no advertising and no third party code of any kind. It sets one cookie, only after you buzz something, and this is all of what it is.
bt. It is not a name, an account or an address, and it is not built from anything about you or your browser. It exists so that the hive can count your buzzes against the few you get a day and so that the same browser is not counted twice on the same story. It lasts a year. Before September 10, 2026 the site also set it when you answered a remembrance question, and from October 3 to October 18, 2026 when you named a song or suggested something; those are kept as they were, described below, and none of them is asked any more.The birthday cookie is gone. Until October 18, 2026, if you told the site your birthday, it was kept in a second cookie called by, in your browser, to draw your own page. The site no longer asks for a birthday and no longer reads that cookie. It was never written down on our side. A browser that still has one keeps it until it expires, and the button on the support page clears it straight away.
The cookie is marked HttpOnly, which means no script in any browser can read it, including the scripts on this site described further down. Nothing about you is stored on our side except the buzzes themselves. A buzz is which story, that it was one buzz, when, what the story's evidence tier and support were at that moment, that it came from this website rather than from the app, and the random string in a scrambled form that cannot be turned back into it. A buzz is kept for good, because the hive it lands on is permanent; it names nobody and is shown to nobody as yours except to the browser that made it. Since September 23, 2026, the most buzzed story on a hive wears a crown, and the list under the board says at what time of day the crown changed hands and between which stories; each line is the time one of those buzzes landed, and it names nobody. That is also what lets the site show you your own buzzes back. Two places do it, and both read the same rows and show them only to the browser that made them: a year later on the same date, the story you backed on it, and at birthed.app/yours, every story this browser has buzzed with what became of each one. Both carry no number of any kind, neither says anything about anybody else, and nobody else can see either. The link to that page appears under the board only for a browser that has buzzed something, nothing else on the site points at it, and clearing the cookie empties it while the buzzes themselves stay on their hives and still count. For thirty seconds after you make one there is an Undo button beside it, and pressing it deletes that buzz outright: the record of it is gone, not marked as cancelled, and nothing is kept anywhere to say you changed your mind. After those thirty seconds a buzz stands, and so does one on a hive that has sealed. An answer to the old remembrance question, if you gave one, is a date, which row, which answer, the random string, and your birth year if you gave that; it is kept as it was. The address your request came from is never sent to our database and is never stored against a buzz or an answer. There is no profile, nothing that follows you to another site, and nothing about any of this is for sale or ever will be.
Stings, since October 19, 2026. A sting is the other button: "this does not matter". It is kept exactly the way a buzz is and for the same reason: which story, when, that it came from this website, and the random string from the bt cookie in its scrambled form, so the hive can hold you to one sting a day and to buzzing or stinging a story, never both. It names nobody and is shown to nobody as yours except to the browser that made it. The count of stings on a story is public, because three of them put the story on trial and both sides see the score; who stung is never shown. The same thirty second Undo deletes a sting outright, and a story the hive buries stays in the graveyard under that day's board for good.
The song in your head and suggestions, from October 3 and October 5 to October 18, 2026. For those two weeks today's date page asked "What song is in your head today?" and "What else mattered today?", and you answered by picking a real song from Apple's catalogue or a real article from English Wikipedia. Both came off the page on October 18, 2026, and the site no longer searches Apple or Wikipedia for anybody. The answers already given are kept the way a buzz is, because each one was one: which song or article, the date, when, that it came from this website, and the random string from the bt cookie in its scrambled form, with a mark saying what it was. The words on those tiles are Apple's and Wikipedia's, never anything a person typed, and nothing anybody typed into either search was ever written down. A song's cover is still fetched from Apple by our server and passed on to you from this site, so your browser asks Apple for nothing.
The person who runs Birthed can see how many buzzes there have been, how many different browsers and phones made them, and how many of those came back on another day. Those are counts of the buzzes already described above, worked out in the database when the page asking for them is opened, and they are not stored anywhere afterwards. Nothing was added to the site to make them possible, and no buzz is ever shown as anybody's. There is still no analytics service, no tracking service and no third party code of any kind on this site.
The server counts requests per address, in memory, for one minute at a time, so that a script cannot make thousands of writes in a minute. Those counts are never written down and vanish when the server restarts. Like every website, the machine serving this one keeps ordinary access logs, which include the address your request came from, for a short time for operational reasons. Those logs are not joined to buzzes and nothing in this site can join them.
A few pages run a script, and each is described here. The first is worth explaining because it looks like the opposite of what it is. When somebody shares a birthday with you, the birthday travels in the part of the web address after the hash symbol, and browsers never send that part to a server. The page at birthed.app/add reads it in your browser to show you the date and hand it to the app. So that page is sent to everybody identically, our logs record only that somebody opened it, and no birthday you send or receive that way ever reaches us.
The second is the full screen hive of a date that is open, the one at birthed.app/the-date/hive/, since September 11, 2026. Its script keeps the board moving while you watch: it opens a connection to our database, Supabase, carrying the same public key the app carries, and the database sends it each buzz as it lands so the board can grow that tile. What it is sent is the buzz as described above, which names nobody. Your own buzz from that page goes to our server the same way a buzz from any other page does, with the same cookie, and nothing new is kept about you. Every page on this site, this one included, draws its headings in a typeface served from this site rather than from a font company, so no font company hears from your browser.
The third, since September 22, 2026, is the Share and Copy link buttons on a story's own page. The script opens your phone's own share sheet, or copies the page's address, and that is all it does. It sends nothing to us or to anybody else. The security header names that one script by its fingerprint, so those pages can run it and nothing else.
Every date page runs nothing. From October 3 to October 18, 2026 today's date page ran two more scripts, for searching songs and suggestions as you typed, and both came off with those boxes.
The same page has a second job. If you arrived through a link somebody used to ask for your birthday, the page shows a send button, and pressing it does send what you typed to our account service, to wait for them. That is the one case above, and the page says so on it before you press anything. The code identifying whose request it is also travels after the hash symbol, so our website's logs never see it either.
In the app, open Settings and tap "Delete my account and data." That deletes your profile from the account service and clears the app's own storage. Deleting the app from your phone removes everything else, including the people list and any reminders. If you would like us to confirm a deletion, write to support@birthed.app.
Birthed is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has created a profile, write to us and we will delete it.
Names, years and descriptions of notable people come from Wikidata under Creative Commons Zero. Chart weeks come from Wikipedia's year lists under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike, and every one carries the page it came from. The title and short description on a suggestion come from English Wikipedia under the same licence, and every one links to its article. Birthed is not affiliated with Wikipedia, Wikidata, the Wikimedia Foundation, Billboard, or Penske Media.
The things found about your day are found by Google's Gemini service searching the web, and each one shows the page it came from so that you can open it and check. Birthed is not affiliated with Google.
If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. Since Birthed collects so little, changes should be rare and small.