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Security, Privacy, and AI

How we encrypt your data, protect your keys, handle AI privately, and keep your beans safe — with full transparency.

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🔒 Security, Privacy, and AI 3 min read

🔗 Your beanies Magic Link

A link or QR code, made on the spot by someone already signed in, that opens your family file on a new device with just your PIN. It lasts 15 minutes.

🔒 Security, Privacy, and AI 3 min read

🚪 What Happens When You Remove a Family Member

Removing someone stops their sign-ins, links and file access from then on. Anything already on their own device stays with them.

🔒 Security, Privacy, and AI 5 min read

🔐 How Your Data Is Encrypted

AES-256-GCM encryption with PBKDF2 key derivation. Your data is encrypted before it ever leaves your device.

🔒 Security, Privacy, and AI 4 min read

📦 The .beanpod File Explained

Your entire family's data in one encrypted file. Understand the v4 file format and what's inside.

🔒 Security, Privacy, and AI 3 min read

👀 Zero-Knowledge Architecture

We can't see your data. Period. Learn about the zero-knowledge design that keeps your family finances private.

🔒 Security, Privacy, and AI 5 min read

🗝️ Your Recovery Kit (and Other Ways Back In)

Your recovery kit is what gets you back into your family’s data. Learn how to store it, the family passphrase option, and every other way back in if a PIN or device is lost.

🔒 Security, Privacy, and AI 3 min read

👁️ Unlock With Biometrics (Face ID & Fingerprint)

In the installed iPhone and Android app, Face ID or a fingerprint signs you in with a tap. Everywhere else, your 6-digit PIN is the way in.

🔒 Security, Privacy, and AI 5 min read

🫘 Magic Beans: How beanies Reads Your Photos & Documents

Hand beanies a "magic bean" — a photo or booking — and it sprouts the details for you. Here is exactly what we send, where it goes, and what we keep (which is nothing).

🔒 Security, Privacy, and AI 3 min read

💾 Knowing Your Data Is Saved

The save indicator in the sidebar shows everyone — not just the family owner — that your latest changes were saved, and quietly flags it if a save is struggling.

🔒 Security, Privacy, and AI 5 min read

📅 How beanies Syncs Your Activities to Google Calendar

Connect a Google calendar and your family activities appear there automatically — one-way, with beanies as the source of truth.

🔒 Security, Privacy, and AI 3 min read

📅 Clash Warnings From Your Other Calendars

beanies can gently warn you when a family activity overlaps something on a connected calendar — reading only when your events are, never what they are.

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