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 separates observation from interpretation.
Your cycle records remain your records. Fertility-awareness methods, educational tools, and cultural frameworks are implemented as optional overlays that can be enabled, disabled, or ignored without altering the underlying data.
The goal is not to tell users what their experiences mean. The goal is to help them keep records, understand patterns, and make decisions on their own terms.
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.