The Grove Field Guide

Grove is an open protocol for personal data ownership.

That sentence does a lot of work. Here’s what it means in plain terms.

You have a Grove account

Your Grove account is yours. It’s not tied to a single app, a single company, or a single server. With it, you have a place — your grove — where the data you create lives.

Apps put their data in your grove

Notes, tasks, bookmarks, photos, anything an app would normally store on its own server: with Grove, the app stores it in your grove instead. The app is a tenant. You’re the landlord.

You can move

The server that holds your grove is called a plot. If you don’t like your plot, you can move to another one. Your data goes with you. The apps you use keep working.

You can switch apps without losing your data

Because your data lives in your grove, not in any one app, switching apps is just switching apps. The notes you wrote in one note-taking app are still there when you open a different one — same data, structured the same way.

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Grove is not a product you sign up for. It’s a protocol — a set of rules that apps, servers, and clients all follow so that the four points above hold true.

Next: why this matters.