iOS Personal Cloud
  • Client: DialIn
  • Duration: 2021 (Multi-phase program) — continuing
AI/ML DevelopmentMobile App Development

Project overview

A privacy-first personal cloud app for iOS organizes photos, videos, links, and files into interactive Spaces with semantic dials, delivering an infinite-canvas workspace and algorithm-free sharing where users—not platforms—control access and visibility. A decentralized storage layer underpins the experience, ensuring portability and verifiable data ownership.

Replace ad-driven, surveillance-style feeds with a system that prioritizes data ownership and consent; deliver granular permissions and predictable syncing; introduce on-device AI for dials so classification happens privately at the edge; and operate content on decentralized storage nodes so data remains portable—and erasable on demand.

Scope of work

After mapping creator workflows, the team delivers an iOS personal cloud that unifies Spaces+dials organization, algorithm-free sharing, and decentralized node storage with purge-on-delete—backed by a privacy-first sync layer and a roadmap for on-device AI classification at the edge.

  • iOS app & Spaces/dials: Designing and shipping the Spaces + dials model for capture, tagging, and infinite-canvas organization; roadmap includes on-device AI for private enrichment.
  • Private sharing & permissions: Implementing linkless, user-controlled sharing with granular access and no ad algorithms.
  • Decentralized storage: Operating user data across distributed nodes with a strict purge-on-deletion guarantee covering content and interactions.
  • Subscriptions & billing: Managing scalable storage tiers via in-app purchases with clean plan lifecycle flows.
  • Operations & releases: Maintaining telemetry, diagnostics, and App Store assets to support an iterative, privacy-respecting roadmap.

Key deliverables

  • iOS personal cloud application with Spaces, dials, and infinite-canvas organization
  • Granular permissioning and private, algorithm-free sharing
  • Fully functional decentralized storage with user-controlled deletion (content + interactions)
  • In-app subscriptions for scalable storage tiers
  • Operational toolkit for privacy-respecting analytics, diagnostics, and releases

Technical challenges

Keeping an infinite-canvas UI fluid on mobile, synchronizing large libraries across decentralized nodes, making permissions intuitive yet robust, and planning edge-first intelligence without exposing raw data.

Project outcome

The app consolidates personal content into a single, privacy-centered hub and introduces a visual grammar—Spaces and dials—that turns media into meaning while keeping control with the user. Early indicators show 0 third-party ad trackers, 90%+ shares set to private by default, ≈40% fewer duplicate uploads with dial-based organization, and ≈25% faster retrieval via node-level caching; account deletion triggers a full purge of data and interactions across storage nodes.

Planned on-device AI continues to shift intelligence to the edge, strengthening privacy and reducing server dependence.

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