The Web Timeline is here: your adventures, in the browser

You can now see your family's adventure timeline on any computer at pockettreasures.app/app — and we built it without creating a single account, storing a single photo, or running a single server that touches your data. Here's how.

Your adventures, now in the browser

From today, you can open pockettreasures.app/app on any computer, sign in with your Apple ID, and see your family's adventure timeline — the same trips, stories, photos and places you've logged on your iPhone, laid out month by month on a bigger screen.

It's lovely for an evening scroll on the laptop, for showing a run of holiday memories on a screen bigger than a phone, and for those moments when your phone is charging in another room and you just want to look something up.

The hard part: doing this without a login system

Here's the thing we're most proud of, and it's invisible.

PocketTreasures has never had accounts. No email signup, no password, no user database sitting on a server somewhere with your family's photos in it. Everything lives on your device and in your own iCloud. That's the entire point of the app.

A web version normally breaks that promise. The standard way to build "see your data in the browser" is: create an account system, upload everyone's data to the company's servers, and serve it back through a login page. Convenient — and suddenly a company you've never met holds every photo of your children.

We refused to do that. Instead, the Web Timeline uses Apple's CloudKit for the web — the same technology that powers iCloud.com:

• You sign in with Apple, not with us. The sign-in button hands you to Apple's own authentication. We never see your password, and there is still no PocketTreasures account.
• Your browser reads your iCloud directly. The page fetches your adventures straight from your private iCloud database, over your own authenticated session with Apple.
• Nothing passes through our servers. There is no PocketTreasures backend involved. We cannot see, log, cache or analyse your memories — the data goes from your iCloud to your screen, and nowhere else.

How to use it

1. On your iPhone, open PocketTreasures and make sure iCloud Backup or Partner Sync is enabled (Profile → Sync & Backup). This is what puts your adventures into your iCloud in the first place.
2. On any computer, go to pockettreasures.app/app.
3. Click Sign in with Apple and use the same Apple ID as on your iPhone.
4. That's it — your timeline appears, grouped by month.

Adventures synced with Partner Sync appear with their photos. Adventures saved via iCloud Backup appear as story cards — the backup is deliberately metadata-only, so your photos stay on your device.

What's next

This is the first version of the Web Timeline, and it's read-only by design — capturing memories stays on your phone, where the moments happen. On our list for future updates: trip groupings, a map view of your adventures, and photo browsing for backed-up memories. As always, every one of those will be built the same way: your data in your iCloud, and none of it on our servers.