Aerie
Claim your Aerie

One place for the files you cannot lose. Yours for $12.99, once.

Aerie is a private vault for the things that would hurt to lose: wills, deeds, medical records, IDs, and the photos of the people you love. Encrypted on your own device before it uploads, so nobody running Aerie can read them. One payment, no subscription, and no hunting through five different clouds for the one file you need.

20 GB  ·  $12.99  ·  paid once
Claim your Aerie · $12.99
20 GB. Charged once. Export everything whenever you want.

What you actually get

20 GB that belongs to you

Enough for documents, scans, and the photos that matter. Not a film collection. Sized so that one payment can genuinely keep it going.

Zero-knowledge encryption

Your root key is created on your hardware and never leaves it. Aerie stores ciphertext it cannot open. Not a marketing promise, the ownership model.

One home, not five accounts

Everything that matters in a single place you open from any device, instead of remembering which cloud held which file in which year.

Your files back out, any time

One export, original formats, nothing locked inside a proprietary container that only Aerie can read.

The honest answers

These are the questions people ask before they trust anyone with family photos. Better to answer them here than in a support email.

What happens if Aerie disappears?
Every file is encrypted with a key only you hold, and export is always available. If Aerie ever winds down, exports stay open for twelve months and the last twelve months of hosting are paid in advance out of a reserved fund. I would rather publish the exit than pretend there isn't one.
How can one payment cover years of storage?
Twenty gigabytes of encrypted storage costs about a dollar and a half a year to keep, and the payment sits in a reserve that covers it roughly nine times over at today's rates. Storage keeps getting cheaper, so that margin grows rather than shrinks. I would rather give you twenty gigabytes that genuinely keeps going than a terabyte that quietly stops being true.
Can I read my files on my phone?
Yes. The key lives on your devices after you claim your Aerie, so any device you have paired opens decrypted files locally. Nothing readable ever leaves your hardware.
Is this a replacement for my whole photo library?
No, and it is not priced like one. Aerie is for the small set of files that would genuinely hurt to lose. Big media libraries belong on drives you own. Being honest about the limit is why the price can stay at $12.99.

Who is behind it

RE

I'm Robert Ernst. I built Aerie because I got tired of my own life being spread across five services that could change the rules whenever they liked. You can reach me at aeriehomecloud@gmail.com, and I answer.

Your digital life was never meant to be temporary.

Claim your Aerie · $12.99
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