The Cloister

Every piece tagged Arts lands here in its own full frame — photography, audio, and video shown large, with a download and a shareable link, instead of buried in the scroll of the Wall. Check "🎨 Tag as Art" on the Home tab when you post a piece to send it here too.

Longer reflections, notices, and write-ups — set apart from the scroll of the Wall. Check "📝 Tag as Scriptorium" on the Home tab to send a post here too. The first line of your post becomes its title.

A group is its own small wall — for a class, a project, or a study circle. Anyone can create up to 7.

Every group tagged into The Cloister — join the ones that fit.

RSVP so others know who's coming. Please confirm by emails, call/text or other communication channels.

Establish a cryptographic NIP-44 v2 tunnel by providing the recipient's public key identifier.

A shared encrypted room for everyone who holds the circle passphrase — set once, unlocked with it from any device. Distinct from your personal nsec passphrase.

Hardware communication and document distribution bypass relays entirely, operating exclusively peer-to-peer.

Images, video, audio, or PDFs. Sent peer-to-peer instantly during a live call — or, if there's no live connection, uploaded via Blossom and delivered as an encrypted message link instead. Note: This feature may not function as expected.

Your keypair is your admission — nobody issues it, nobody can revoke it. Generated entirely on this device; nothing is sent anywhere until you post.

Cryptographic engine is fully operational. Keep keys stored securely offline.

The first Cloister was a single quiet room kept by a monk in the Himalayas — a place to speak freely, write things down, and trust that no one was listening who shouldn't be. This is that room, rebuilt in code: your identity is a keypair no company issues and no company can take back, your posts travel over the open nostr protocol instead of a company's database, and your private words are sealed with NIP-44 encryption before they ever leave your device. Relays carry the signal; they never hold the key. *Disclaimer: "The Cloister is a non‑custodial interface for the Nostr protocol. We do not host, moderate, control, or delete any user content—that power resides entirely with independent relays and the users who publish their own signed events. All users are solely and fully responsible for their words and actions. By using this app, you accept that your speech is your own legal liability, and you release us from any claim arising from content you or others publish." We cannot control, censor, or delete anything you post—you alone own and are legally liable for every word you publish. Visit our official page: https://cloister-official.pages.dev/

Find a person, a group, or a post — by name, by npub or hex pubkey, by a note1 post id, or by a Nostr address (name@domain). Name/text search only looks through what's already loaded on this device; an exact npub, note id, or address is looked up directly.

Posts you've kept for a slower re-read — stored on this device only, never shared.

Mute OS-level notifications during a window you choose. Everything still arrives in the app — your phone just won't buzz.

Default relays are shared by everyone here. Add one of your own for extra redundancy — it stays local to this device.

A quiet recurring question shown at the top of Home, the same for everyone this week.

The Feed, Arts, Scriptorium, and (once unlocked) Circle Room are cached on this device so reopening the app shows something instantly instead of a blank screen while relays reconnect. Nothing here is sent anywhere — it's purely local, and safe to clear any time.

Export your key, relays, bookmarks, and Circle Room passphrase as one encrypted file — everything needed to rebuild your presence here on a fresh device, protected by a backup passphrase you choose. Keep the file and the passphrase separately; either alone is useless.

This is a signed kind 0 event, broadcast to relays so other Nostr clients can show your name too — not just The Cloister.

Muting is personal and local to your own view — like Nostr's NIP-51 mute lists. It only filters what you see; it can never remove a post from the network or stop anyone else from seeing it. The Cloister has no admin who can approve, ban, or purge anyone — that would go against what an open protocol is for. ***Visit Cloister Guide: https://cloister-guide.pages.dev