A secure reminder app for journalists and professionals
Standard reminder apps were built for groceries and gym sessions, not source protection. They sync plain text to the cloud, show reminders in widgets, and leave confidential meetings visible to anyone who glances at your lock screen. For an investigative journalist, a lawyer, or a doctor, that default is a quiet liability.
Henkq takes a different starting point. Everyday work lives in Today in Morning, Afternoon, and Evening. Sensitive meetings, source contacts, and leaked document reviews live in a biometric Vault. From the outside, sensitive rows appear as a single Protected Reminder. After Face ID, the real details appear.
Protected Reminder looks ordinary on Today. Unlock with Face ID to see the real title and notes. Vault items never appear in Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen widgets, Spotlight, on Apple Watch, or on Vision Pro.
A daily workflow you can actually trust
For most professionals, a private reminder app only works if it is faster than a notebook and quieter than a cloud planner. Here is how a typical day looks in Henkq:
- Morning: open Henkq on iPhone, glance at Today. Public meetings, deadlines, and personal items are visible in the Morning segment. Sensitive items show as Protected Reminder.
- New sensitive contact: type the reminder in plain language, then drag the vault icon onto the row. Protect in one drag moves it into your vault with one gesture.
- On the move: open the medium Home Screen widget to see your next three reminders. Protected rows are not in the widget, so a glance never reveals a source.
- At your desk: open Henkq on Mac, unlock the Vault with Touch ID, work through the protected items, lock the folder again when you are done.
- End of day: close any open sessions. The vault locks automatically when the app or your device locks.
What Henkq does not collect
- No analytics SDK. Henkq does not include any third party analytics, attribution, or session replay tool.
- No ad networks. There is no advertising surface in the app.
- No account. You do not register with Henkq. Sync runs through your personal iCloud account, which Henkq cannot read.
- No off-device AI. Natural language parsing in Smart Suggestions runs on your device. The text never reaches an API.
- No crash reporter that sees notes. Crash logs are limited to system stack traces, with no reminder content.
What Henkq is not
Henkq is honest about its scope. It is a calm, private reminder app for individuals. It is not a Signal alternative, an end-to-end encrypted messenger, a notes app, a journalism toolkit, or a document store. It does not replace your hardware security choices, your VPN, your operating system updates, or your Apple Advanced Data Protection settings. It is one calm tile in your privacy stack: the reminder app you can trust with the items you would otherwise keep on paper.
Recommended setup for confidential work
- Strong device passcode on every Apple device that runs Henkq.
- Face ID or Touch ID enabled for biometric unlock.
- Apple Advanced Data Protection for iCloud to end-to-end encrypt your CloudKit metadata.
- Lockdown Mode on iPhone where your threat model requires it.
- Henkq Vault as the default home for any reminder you would not want on a lock screen.