BurnPony Self-Destruct Notes
Kevin Stewart Utilities iPhoneiPadiPod touch
BurnPony Self-Destruct Notes is a free Utilities app for iPhone and iPad by Kevin Stewart. Requires iOS 18.6. Updated August 10, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 1 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 10
- 2026 · v1.1
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About BurnPony Self-Destruct Notes
Write a secret. Share one link. It reads once and burns. BurnPony encrypts your note on your phone before anything is sent. The server stores only ciphertext it cannot read, the decryption key travels in a part of the link that browsers never transmit, and the recipient needs nothing but a browser. No app on their side, no account on yours. WHAT IT DOES One link, any recipient, any device with a browser. View limits from 1 to 100, expiry from 5 minutes to 30 days, an optional auto-hide timer after reveal. Optional passphrase as a second factor, shared through a different channel than the link. Read receipts, honestly: the recipient is told before they open. No silent tracking, ever. Labels that never leave your phone: name a note "wifi password for mom" and the read notification says so, while the server knows nothing. Sent Notes: live status, view counts, change the expiration after sending, burn early with a swipe. The recipient page speaks nine languages, following the reader's browser. WHY YOU CAN CHECK INSTEAD OF TRUST The entire system is open source: this app, the server, and the recipient page, with a written protocol specification and cross-implementation test vectors. The note page is byte-reproducible from its published source, so View Source is a real audit, not a gesture. You can even run your own server and point the app at it from Settings. HONEST LIMITS Self-destruction limits exposure; it cannot un-share. A recipient can always copy or photograph a revealed note, and BurnPony says so on the note page itself, because a privacy tool that overpromises is worse than none. From NorseHorse, maker of PGPony, CarrierPony, AgePony, RelayPony, and QuorumPony.
What’s new
Version 1.1 · Updated August 10, 2026
New in this update: A guided walkthrough for first time users. Five steps, with a skip button on every screen, and it ends by sending a real burn note, encrypted on your device, so you have used BurnPony before you finish setting it up. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use now live inside the app. Both are bundled and readable offline, with a link to the web copy from Settings. An in app language picker. BurnPony now speaks English, Deutsch, Espanol, Francais, Italiano, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, and Simplified Chinese, and switching takes effect right away, no restart needed. A new Discourage copying option when composing a note. Turn it on and the viewer disables text selection and hides the copy button for that note. It is a speed bump, not protection, a screenshot still works, but it is one more layer for notes you would rather not see copied around. Replay the walkthrough any time from Settings.
App privacy
The developer, Kevin Stewart, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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