Dial something in
Your data is your car.
theuniversal is the GPS.
Dialin works just like driving with GPS. The car is yours. The GPS helps you find the way.
🚗 Your car: Dialin
It's yours
Nobody gets in without your permission. Not us, not a company, not anyone.
You're in control
You pick the music and set the temperature. Change anything, or turn it off, any time.
Bring anything
Photos, songs, files, places, and how you feel about them. It all rides with you.
🛰️ The GPS: theuniversal
Tell it where you're going
Tell Dialin what you like and what you want to do, like typing a place into GPS.
It sees everything at once
GPS sees every road. theuniversal sees every offer, song, video and taste at the same time.
It finds your way
It matches you with what fits and points the way. It only sees what you choose to share, blurred so no one knows it's you.
Nobody owns GPS. theuniversal is public and free to use; we intend to hand it to a non-profit. Dialin is one car, and anyone can build another. We're building it so your trust, your points and your tastes can go with you to other apps.
How you use it
Dial something in
Point your phone at anything — a coffee, a song, a view — and say how it feels. It's saved in your car, at that place.Get a point
Every real dial-in at a real place earns a point. It shows you were really there.Follow the GPS
Places send you offers that fit what you like. Go, and your phone checks once that you're really there — that's another point.
New to dials? What a dial is · The Dial Dictionary
The fine print, in plain words
Worth more than money
We don't pay you for your data and we never sell it. Points aren't cash. They're a relationship: a place that knows you came back, a table held, an invitation.
Never a copy
When you share a photo, a file or your number, the other person gets a link back to your car, not a copy. Change your mind and take the link back.
What's open
theuniversal is public. DIOS and the Dial Dictionary are being opened as source, so anyone can check them and build on them (developers). Dialin itself is private.
Pricing
- 2 GB free, forever.
- More room when paid plans open after launch: 200 GB for $3.99 a month, 1 TB for $11.99, 3 TB for $29.99, 10 TB for $99. What each plan includes, and why it costs this
- Businesses pay for tools, never for your data. The business dashboard is coming.
Making offers and earning points are free for everyone. Storage details
Questions people ask
Who is behind Dialin?
deep, the founder, building it as DIAL IN LLC, a Delaware company. You can write to him at deep@dialin.io.
Where does my data live today?
In Dialin's cloud. Your files are on Storj, spread over many independent drives and encrypted at rest with our keys. Your dials sit in our database. In Dialin, only you and the people you share with can see them. To suggest dials, our AI provider (Anthropic) looks at each item you add, and it doesn't train on it. No ads and no trackers. Next, we want your originals to live on your phone, with only locked copies in the cloud. If you've built that kind of thing, help us at seekers@dialin.io.
Is any of it open source?
theuniversal is public and free to use; we intend to hand it to a non-profit. DIOS, the dial engine, and the Dial Dictionary are being opened as source; the dictionary is readable today through the developer API, under CC BY 4.0. The Dialin app itself is private.
What is a point?
A point is a record that you were really somewhere. You earn one by dialing in at a real place.
You can use it to say yes to an offer from a place that takes points. That's all it does.
It can't be bought, sold, cashed out, or sent to another person. There's no market and no price. We never pay for data, and we never sell it.
When you say yes to an offer, your phone checks once that you're within about 200 m of the place. We don't keep that location with the visit.
How we make money: storage plans, and later tools for businesses. Never your data, and never points. That's why a point doesn't need a price.
My kid wants Dialin. What does a place see?
In Settings, under Family, tap Add a child to link their account to yours. A place then sees them only as "A young guest": never a name, photo or score. Set their age range there too, and new contacts wait for your OK. Points work the same for them: they can't be bought, sold or sent.
Can I export or delete my data?
Yes, any time, from your account. Export downloads your data, with links to every file; delete removes all of it.
Is Dialin for me?
Yes if you want to remember the things you love, share them when someone asks, and keep them in a space that's yours. Not yet if you want cash for your data, or need everything stored only on your phone today.
Who's behind it
I'm deep. The internet runs backwards: what we notice and feel flows out to platforms that keep it and sell it. Dialin turns that around. Your data stays yours, and the world comes to you by invitation. Music is here too: your songs, and mixes from your friends.
A welcome from deep · 4 min · more on our mission
Founder · deep@dialin.io
Opens your camera. No account needed. Anything near you works.