Observed arrival · 2026-10-31
Units: a ruler with a concealed vault
Units is presented as a phone app that looks and works like a ruler, with a hidden-pattern entrance to an on-device vault for photos, videos, files, and notes.
○Open
⊠Login
$Paid
†Ads
✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
- For
- People seeking an on-device private file vault
- Worth noticing
- The site says forgetting the pattern permanently strands the vault; it offers no recovery phrase, email reset, or developer key.
Field notes
The page maps the unlock route as a sequence: open the ruler, tap Gear and About, then draw a pattern of at least four dots and one turn. It says leaving the app relocks the vault and returns the ruler to view. The site identifies AES-256-GCM encryption and links to an encryption-design page that it says includes the system’s limits; those implementation claims are not independently verifiable from this extract.
Observed signals
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
○OpenPublic substance visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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