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Selvum — Absolute digital sovereignty

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Your digital life<br>deserves a bunker.

Selvum is the 100% offline digital vault for storing passwords, cards, secure notes and seed phrases without depending on the cloud or paying subscriptions.

No cloud

No tracking

No subscriptions

Your data will still be yours even if Selvum disappears

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100% Offline

9:41

Good evening

My Vault

Export

8 items

Search vault…

Banks

Social

Subscriptions

Coinbase

john@email.com

BBVA

Online Banking

Netflix

jane@email.com

MetaMask

Crypto wallet

Vault

Generator

Settings

THE PROBLEM

The cloud turned

your privacy into a target.

Most managers store millions of vaults in the same infrastructure. When all secrets live in the same place, that place becomes a target.

A single breach can affect millions of users

Cloud managers store millions of vaults in the same place. If they break in, everyone’s passwords leak — yours included.

Renting your passwords

Stop paying and you may lose access to your own passwords. You’re paying every month just to log in.

Constant tracking

Other managers track what you open, when, and from where. Your activity becomes part of their product.

Using the same password everywhere is like using the same key for your house, your car, and your safe.

THE SOLUTION

Selvum breaks

the domino effect.

Every account becomes a sealed compartment. A unique key per service. A vault that lives only on your device. If a random forum gets hacked, your bank account and your email stay sealed shut.

forum.io

bank

mail

github

apple

stripe

notion

linear

aws

01

Unique keys

Selvum creates a unique, strong password for every account. No repeats, ever.

02

Total isolation

If a site you use gets hacked, your bank accounts and email stay 100% safe.

03

Local only

Your passwords live on your device. Since they’re not on the internet, hackers can’t reach them.

RECOVERY KIT

When everything fails,

you still have everything.

Designed to keep working even if we shut down tomorrow. Your vault generates an emergency file you can keep on a USB — open it on any computer, today or 20 years from now, with no internet and no extra software.

What happens when you need to recover your passwords?

Cloud-based managers

Offline desktop managers

Selvum

ONLY ONE

Works without internet connection

Always offline

Works if the company shuts down

Forever. By design.

No account needed to recover

Zero dependencies

The backup itself contains its decryptor — nothing to install

RESCATE_OFFLINE.html

Works in any browser, any year

2026. 2040. Always.

BIP-39 seed phrase — unbreakable standard

2^128

Overall Recovery Independence

Requires servers

Requires compatible software

100% Independent

Any browser.<br>Any computer.<br>Any year.

2026. 2040. 2060. It doesn't matter.

&ldquo;<br>Unlike traditional cloud-based password managers, Selvum's Recovery Kit works without servers, without accounts, and without us.

Selvum Security Architecture

Download Selvum

Android & iOS · One purchase · All future updates included

FEATURES<br>Built like a vault. Quiet like a tool.

01

100% Offline

Nothing ever leaves your device. Not a password. Not a note. Not a key.

02

12-word seed phrase

Your master key, derived from twelve words only you hold. Sole-owner cryptography.

INSIDE THE APP<br>Four screens. Nothing more.

Restraint is a security feature. Every additional surface is an additional risk. Selvum is intentionally small.

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Selvum

My Vault

Enter your 6-digit PIN

123<br>456<br>789

Use biometrics instead

01<br>Unlock

Unlock instantly with your PIN or biometrics. No loading, no waiting.

9:41

Good evening

My Vault

Export

8 items

Search vault…

Banks

Social

Subscriptions

Coinbase

john@email.com

BBVA

Online Banking

Netflix

jane@email.com

MetaMask

Crypto wallet

Twitter/X

@johndoe

Visa Principal

**** 1234

Vault

Generator

Settings

02<br>Vault

Your entries, organised by collection. Search is local. Reveals are a manual toggle — you control what's shown. The seed and master key are wiped from memory after use.

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Generator

Create secure passwords

Password

Passphrase

Pin

K#9mP@xL2$vQ8nR5wB7&

Strength<br>Strength 98% · 98%

Regenerate

Copy

Options

Length<br>20 chars

Uppercase

Lowercase

Numbers

Symbols

03<br>Generator

Cryptographically strong passwords. Generated using your device's CSPRNG — the random bytes are created and consumed locally, with no network call at any point.

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Export Vault

Secure offline backup

Store your kit in more than one safe offline location. To restore you need the kit's vault file and RESCATE_OFFLINE.html — plus your 12-word seed phrase, which is deliberately never included in the kit.

Generate and Share

04<br>Export Recovery Kit

A 4-file bundle: your encrypted vault, the offline decryptor, a plain-text README and a checksum. Restoring takes the first two plus your 12-word seed phrase, which the kit...

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