Tuin-BETA

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by Constant

A test release for parents using TEPP: plans for a child's Nostr apps, and a TEPP signer for the child's key.

**Tuin-BETA is a test release.** It is for parents who want to try TEPP with their own family. It will change, and it has rough edges. TEPP lets parents write down what their child's Nostr apps may do, as plans that those apps read and follow. Tuin-BETA does two things with it. **Plans for your child's apps.** You write plans: who your child can see and talk to, and when. Tuin seals each plan to your child and publishes it to your family's relays. Other parents or guardians can share their plans with you, so that you can see theirs too. **A TEPP signer for your child's key.** You make your child's key in Tuin, or import one. Tuin then signs for your child's other Nostr apps: on the same phone over NIP-55, and on the phone or the child's other devices over NIP-46, with a bunker address Tuin shows you. Before it signs anything, Guardian Alpha's TEPP engine checks the request against your family's plans, and Tuin refuses what the plans don't allow. **Your own key.** Make one in Tuin, import one, or connect a signer you already use: a signer app on the phone (NIP-55) or a remote signer (NIP-46). **A parental lock.** A PIN or a pattern keeps Tuin's own screens closed, so that Tuin can stay on your child's phone. The signer keeps working while Tuin is locked. **What Tuin-BETA does not do** - It governs your child's key, not the phone. Your child can make a new Nostr account in another app, and your plans won't apply to it. - The lock guards Tuin's screens, not the phone. It doesn't stop anyone from uninstalling Tuin, clearing its data, or stopping it in the phone's settings. - It can only refuse what passes through its signer. An app that signs through Tuin is refused what your plans don't allow, but what an app shows is up to that app: only an app that supports TEPP follows your plans in what it shows. - It doesn't show you your child's messages or posts. The signer's log names the app, the kind of request and the answer, never the contents. - It doesn't track where your child is, and it doesn't read other apps. **Setting up the child's phone.** Let Tuin-BETA run in the background, or Android may stop the signer: allow it to ignore battery optimisation when it asks. On Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO phones, also allow its Autostart and set its battery saver to "No restrictions" (Tuin-BETA's phone screen opens those settings). Without Autostart, those phones keep the signer stopped after they end it, until Tuin-BETA is opened again. Tuin-BETA keeps the keys it holds on the phone, wrapped by Android's keystore: your child's key, and yours if you made or imported it here. Keep a backup of both. It needs Android 12 or later, on a 64-bit ARM phone. It has no ads, no analytics and no Google Play services.

First release: Nov 9, 2026, 6 total releases.

Most recent release: Nov 10, 2026.

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Releases

  • Nov 10, 2026 0.9.4
    Tuin-BETA 0.9.4: fixes from a test on the real Nostr network. - Your child's garden reads every gardener's rules again when you open it on an older reading, and says how old the reading is. It no longer says "just now" over a picture from before another gardener changed their plan. - When Tuin makes your child's key, it puts out where your child reads and where a private message to your child goes, on your family's relays, so that your child's apps and the people your child may talk with find them. You can give your child a name others' apps show. A key brought from elsewhere gets these only when you say so. - A key Tuin made for you gets the same, naming Tuin's own relays, from Other parents you trust, so that other families' Tuin can reach you. - Plans and asks between families reach the other parent more reliably, a gate to someone's plans can now be taken over, and your own child is no longer offered as a part of what another family sent. - Tuin's suggested relays are now relay.damus.io, relay.nostr.net and relay.primal.net. - The signer's log says why something was refused in plain words, and no longer counts the messages it can't open as refusals. - Suggested sets say their languages, and a garden that holds the same people as a set says so. - On Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO phones, updating Tuin-BETA can turn its Autostart off again. After the update, check that Autostart is still allowed, or the phone keeps a stopped signer stopped.
  • Nov 10, 2026 0.9.3
    Tuin-BETA 0.9.3: gardens to open a gate to, and who someone is. - Open a new gate now offers Gardens Tuin suggests: public gardens made for Tuin-BETA, each with its own plan of people around one theme, such as space and science, nature, art, books, music, making, games, the outdoors, things made for children, help with Nostr, and Dutch. Some keep hours or rules of their own. - A school's, a library's, a helpline's or a place's page can now open a gate to their open plans. It says first how the gate opens, shows what it would bring, and then opens it into your draft. - Tap anyone listed, on your plan, a gate or elsewhere, to open their card: who they say they are (their name, their own words, their address), their key in full, and who they know. - Three people are out of People Tuin suggests, after a closer reading. - On Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO phones, updating Tuin-BETA can turn its Autostart off again. After the update, check that Autostart is still allowed, or the phone keeps a stopped signer stopped.
  • Nov 10, 2026 0.9.2
    Tuin-BETA 0.9.2: who they know. - When you look someone up, Tuin now shows who they know: around your child (your child, the gardeners, your contacts and the people your child's plans let in) and around you and your child's other gardeners (the people you each follow). - It says who follows them, whom they follow, and who muted them, from public follow and mute lists. Being followed by people you know says more than following them: anyone can follow anyone. - It shows on the card when you find someone, on the Garden's card for a person, on the trust page beside another parent, and beside each group of people Tuin suggests. - Your child's People page lists the people your child follows whom no plan names yet, each with Add. - It is for you to weigh. It lets no one in and keeps no one out: only the plans do that, as before. - On Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO phones, updating Tuin-BETA can turn its Autostart off again. After the update, check that Autostart is still allowed, or the phone keeps a stopped signer stopped.
  • Nov 9, 2026 0.9.1.1
    Tuin-BETA 0.9.1.1: people Tuin suggests. - People Tuin suggests: when you add to your child's plan, Tuin now offers ready-made groups of people to look at, by topic: space and science, nature and animals, art and photography, books and learning, music, making and tech, games and puzzles, sports and outdoors, things made for children and families, help with Nostr, and people who post in Dutch. - Tuin looked through each person's recent posts before this version came out. People change, so look through a group before you add it. You can take anyone out of it afterwards. - A suggested group is added to look at only: your child sees their posts, but can't message them or reply. - Nothing is added until you add it, review your draft and apply it. - On Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO phones, updating Tuin-BETA can turn its Autostart off again. After the update, check that Autostart is still allowed, or the phone keeps a stopped signer stopped.
  • Nov 9, 2026 0.9.1
    Tuin-BETA 0.9.1: people by name, and your own relays. - Names and pictures: Tuin looks up the Nostr profile of everyone it shows, you included, and shows their name and picture. Your own names for people still come first. Only when no profile can be found does Tuin show a short npub, as before. - Your relays: when you set up a family, Tuin suggests the relays from your own relay list. Relays that want payment or a log-in, or that let only some people write, are left out, each with its reason, and you can add one anyway. At least one of Tuin's own relays stays in, so that your child's new key has a relay that takes it. With no relay list of your own, Tuin suggests its own relays, as before. - A family set up before keeps its relays. Its relays page offers your own list instead, and nothing moves until you confirm it there. Moving can change the relays Tuin's signer listens on; the child's other devices connected with a code (NIP-46) then need a new code. - On Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO phones, updating Tuin-BETA can turn its Autostart off again (HyperOS did so on our test phone when 0.9.1 went over 0.9.0). After the update, check that Autostart is still allowed, or the phone keeps a stopped signer stopped.
  • Nov 9, 2026 0.9.0-beta.1
    The first test release of Tuin-BETA. - Your own key: make it in Tuin, import it (nsec, hex or ncryptsec), or connect a signer (NIP-55 on the phone, or a NIP-46 remote signer). - Your child's key: make it in Tuin, or import it. - Tuin's own TEPP signer serves your child's key to the child's other apps over NIP-55 and NIP-46. Guardian Alpha's engine checks every request against your family's plans. - A parental lock, a PIN or a pattern, guards Tuin's screens. The signer keeps working while Tuin is locked. Not in this release: the child's own view of their plans, and a camera for codes (codes are pasted and shared). On the child's phone, let Tuin-BETA ignore battery optimisation; on Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO phones, also allow its Autostart and set its battery saver to "No restrictions", or the phone keeps the signer stopped after ending it. Overnight battery behaviour has not been tested on every kind of phone.