Red Witch
Private cycle tracking and reproductive data stewardship
Red Witch is a privacy-first cycle tracking project built around consent, local ownership, and reproductive data sovereignty.
An incubating project within the Pancakes ecosystem.
Most cycle-tracking applications collect intimate information and transmit it to remote services. Red Witch begins from a different premise: information about menstruation, fertility, symptoms, and reproductive health belongs to the person who generated it.
What makes Red Witch different?
Red Witch is designed to help people understand their cycles without requiring them to surrender control of their most intimate records.
It can identify patterns, provide predictions, and offer educational guidance while keeping those interpretations connected to the observations they came from. Users should be able to understand why an insight was produced, how certain it is, and which method or framework it reflects.
Different fertility-awareness methods, health perspectives, and cultural frameworks may interpret the same records differently. Red Witch preserves the underlying data, clearly distinguishes observation from interpretation, and lets each person choose which forms of guidance are useful for their own body, circumstances, and goals.
Core Principles
- Privacy by design
- Local-first storage and encryption
- Explicit, revocable consent
- User ownership of records and meaning
- Support for diverse identities, cultures, and reproductive goals
- Protection against surveillance, coercion, and data extraction
Current Status
Red Witch is an incubating project. Current work focuses on privacy architecture, threat modeling, data sovereignty, accessibility, fertility-awareness support, and user-controlled interpretation. Product development also depends on establishing the working Pitchfork infrastructure that will support secure records, permissions, and user-controlled data exchange across the broader ecosystem.