How It Works
One Identity.
Many Apps. All Yours.
Sign in, sign your work, and run apps you actually own — all from one identity that lives with you, not in a company's database. You decide what connects, what's shared, and what stays yours.
Your Identity, Finally Yours
You've probably seen the headlines — passwords leaked by the million, accounts locked overnight, AI trained on people's work without asking. Different stories, one root cause: your identity is rented. Every login lives in a company's database — to be breached, sold, or switched off. Flowsta flips it: your identity is a key you hold, not an account someone grants.
No database to breach
There's no central store of your data to leak, sell, or subpoena. Your information is encrypted and spread across a distributed network — not sitting in one company's database.
No one can deplatform you
Your identity isn't a company's to suspend. It's yours, on a peer-to-peer network nobody owns and nobody can switch off — including us.
Not even we can read it
Zero-knowledge by design. Your data is encrypted with keys only you hold — derived from a password we never see. It's mathematically impossible for Flowsta to read it.
Your sovereign identity is the foundation of all of this. Explore Flowsta Identity →
What You Can Do With It
One identity. Three things you can do today — with more arriving.
Sign in with Flowsta
Sign in anywhere
Click 'Sign in with Flowsta' wherever you see it. New here? The same button creates your identity in seconds. Returning? You're in instantly — no separate accounts, no extra passwords. Thanks to zero-knowledge cryptography, the site never sees your password. Sites like The NOW Times already use it.
Try it — the button works right here
Powered by Sign It
Sign your work
Your identity also signs files. Prove you made something, declare how it can be used, and let anyone verify it — forever, with no central authority. In an age of AI and deepfakes, that's how you prove what's real and what's yours.
A Growing Ecosystem
Real apps and sites already build on Flowsta — and the list keeps growing. A few examples:
The NOW Times
A news and trending-topics platform. Readers sign in with their Flowsta identity — no new account, no password to leak.
ProofPoll
Verified polls where one vote means one real person and no one can rewrite the result. Runs in Vault, owned by the people who use it.
Your app here
Anyone can build on the open standard — add sign-in, the Sign It API, or ship a Holochain app. The ecosystem grows with every one. Yours could be next.
How It Actually Works
Under the hood — in plain language.
A key, not an account
Your identity is anchored by a 24-word recovery phrase you set up and keep — held by you alone. It rebuilds your account on any device, and nobody can reset it for you, because nobody else has it. Set it up early and store it safely.
Zero-knowledge by design
Your password is checked without ever being seen, and your data is encrypted with keys derived from it. Flowsta stores none of it in the clear — we couldn't read it if we tried.
Lives on a network, not our servers
Flowsta is built on Holochain — a peer-to-peer network where everyone has their own chain. There's no central database to breach, and no off-switch.
Verification works without us
Anyone can verify a Flowsta login or signature independently. If Flowsta disappeared tomorrow, your identity and your signed work would still stand.
Curious what it's built on? Flowsta runs on Holochain — an independent, open-source project (not a blockchain, no token, no gas). More on the tech →
How Flowsta Compares
See how Flowsta stacks up against the alternatives.
| Feature | Flowsta | Traditional SSO | Password Managers | Web3 Wallets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One login everywhere | ||||
| Zero-knowledge privacy | ||||
| Censorship resistant | ||||
| You own your data | Depends | |||
| Sign your work / files | ||||
| Verify file authorship | ||||
| AI disclosure metadata | ||||
| Offline desktop logins | ||||
| Two-factor auth | ||||
| Local-first storage |
Build on Flowsta
Three ways to plug in — pick one or combine them. Your users bring their own identity; you never store a password.
Add Sign in with Flowsta
Drop our login button on your site. Your users bring their own identity — you never store a password again.
Use the Sign It API
Add verifiable signing and content-rights declarations to your app, backed by the same identity layer.
Build a Holochain app
Ship a desktop app that runs in Vault and works with users' Flowsta identity. Fork ProofPoll to start with the hard parts already solved.
Common Questions
Your Flowsta Identity is the foundation — your sovereign account that works everywhere. Sign It is a Flowsta app that uses your identity to cryptographically sign files. Flowsta Vault is the optional desktop app that holds your keys locally and lets you run Holochain apps. One identity, many apps.
No. Creating your identity, signing in to sites, and signing files all work right in your browser. Flowsta Vault is an optional desktop app — install it when you want offline desktop logins or to run Holochain apps like ProofPoll, where your private keys stay on your own machine.
Yes. Creating an identity, signing in to sites, downloading Vault, and verifying signed files are all free — and always will be. Optional Premium tiers unlock shorter usernames, larger Sign It quotas, and priority support. See Premium pricing.
Your 24-word recovery phrase is the master key to your account — and you create it; it isn't generated automatically. Soon after you sign up, set it up from your dashboard (we'll keep reminding you until you do). Flowsta shows the phrase once — write it down and store it offline, in more than one safe place. If you forget your password, those 24 words are the only way back in; no one, not even Flowsta, can reset your account without them. That's the deal with truly owning your identity: your keys, your data; not your keys, not your data.
Yes. Your data is encrypted with keys derived from your password on a decentralized network. Even Flowsta staff cannot read it — it's mathematically impossible without your password. This isn't a privacy-policy promise; it's built into the zero-knowledge architecture.
Holochain is the open, public technology Flowsta is built on. Instead of one shared ledger like a blockchain, every user has their own chain and apps validate data peer-to-peer. There's no token, no coin, no mining, no gas fees — nothing to buy to use Flowsta. Because it's an independent open-source project, apps built on it keep working even if Flowsta itself disappears.
Yes — that's the whole point. Add 'Sign in with Flowsta' with our OAuth SDK, integrate the Sign It API, or build a Holochain app that runs in Vault. Start at the Developer Portal.