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title: "Your seed bank in your pocket"
description: "A local-first, decentralized app for keeping and sharing traditional seeds and seedlings. Offline, encrypted, no account."
hero:
  title: "Your seed bank in your pocket"
  tagline: "Keep and share traditional seeds and seedlings — offline, encrypted, no account."
  lead: >
    Every traditional seed is a letter written by thousands of generations,
    passed from hand to hand. Tane helps people and seed-saver collectives keep
    a friendly inventory of their bank, decide what they offer, and share it
    locally — without a central intermediary that could control it, censor it,
    or be fined for it.
pillars:
  - icon: "🌱"
    title: "Manage your bank"
    body: "Add a seed or seedling with just a photo and a name — no Latin required. Note the year, how much you have, where it came from, germination tests. Search, filter, snap now and name later."
  - icon: "🔒"
    title: "Yours, and only yours"
    body: "Works fully offline. No account, no server, no trackers. Everything is encrypted on your device. Keep an encrypted backup and a printed recovery sheet to restore your whole bank on a new device."
  - icon: "🤝"
    title: "Share, as it's always been done"
    body: "Mark what you have spare to give away, swap or sell. Someone nearby finds it and contacts you — no middleman. Print a catalog of what you share to take to a seed fair."
features:
  title: "What you can do with Tane"
  intro: "One quiet app for the whole life of a seed — keeping it, caring for it, and passing it on."
  groups:
    - icon: "🌱"
      title: "Your seed bank, in your pocket"
      items:
        - "Add a seed in seconds — a photo and a name is all you need."
        - "Track each batch by year and amount, in real units: cobs, pods, a handful, a jar."
        - "Keep photos, notes and germination tests for every variety."
        - "Give a seed several names, in several languages."
    - icon: "🗓️"
      title: "Care and timing"
      items:
        - "Seed-saving guidance for each crop: pollination, isolation, how many plants, drying."
        - "A this-month calendar: what to sow, transplant or harvest for seed."
        - "Friendly warnings when a seed is getting old, so you renew it in time."
    - icon: "🔒"
      title: "On paper, and off the grid"
      items:
        - "Printable labels and cards for your packets and jars, each with a code to scan."
        - "One tap saves a sealed backup; a recovery card brings everything back."
        - "Works fully offline, with no account. Your data stays on your phone unless you send it."
    - icon: "🤝"
      title: "Share and stay connected"
      items:
        - "Offer spare seed to give away, swap or sell — and see what others share."
        - "Save a search and get notified in the app as soon as a match shows up nearby."
        - "Private messages to arrange a swap, person to person."
        - "Vouch for people you've met and see who you can trust."
        - "Make a plantaré promise: agree to return part of what you multiply."
        - "Keep everything in sync across your own devices."
values:
  title: "Why Tane is different"
  points:
    - "No center: no company can shut it down, censor it, or be fined for it."
    - "Anti-monopoly by design — sharing seeds multiplies the commons instead of depleting it."
    - "Spreads like a seed, person to person, with no server in the middle."
    - "Free software (AGPL-3.0). No ads, no commissions, no business model."
---

Tane (種, "seed"; from *tanemaki* 種まき, "to sow seeds") is a local-first,
decentralized app for keeping and sharing traditional seeds and seedlings. It
works with zero network — and connects you to a neighborly seed-sharing network
when you want it.