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Small incidents. One clear pattern.

What Pattern does

Stalking and harassment are proven in court by a pattern — not one bad day, but a record of small incidents that escalate over weeks and months. The problem is that the standard free tool victims are handed (SPARC's documentation log) is a hand-filled PDF: it can't sort, can't show escalation, and can't tell the story the way a judge needs to see it. The cloud apps go the other way — they create an account, an email trail, and a vendor-stored copy a stalker could reach.

Pattern is the missing middle: a structured, pattern-first incident log that lives entirely on your phone.

What ships in v1:

— Structured incidents following SPARC's fields. Each entry captures date and time, location, exactly what happened, who witnessed it, a reference to any evidence (a screenshot, a voicemail, a photo you keep elsewhere), and the impact on you. Consistent fields are what turn a pile of notes into admissible documentation. — Auto-built timeline. Every incident you log drops into a clean chronological timeline automatically — the one thing the PDF can't do. Scroll your whole history in order, no sorting, no retyping. — Frequency and escalation view. A simple visualization shows how often incidents are happening and whether they're getting worse over time. Escalation is the legal point; this makes it visible at a glance. — Court-ready report. Export a clean, printable report formatted for a protective-order petition — the timeline, the incident details, the escalation summary — ready to hand to an advocate, attorney, or the court. — Face ID lock. An optional lock on the whole log, so a glance at your phone reveals nothing. — Free, no account, on-device. Nothing syncs. There is no sign-up, no email, no server-stored copy, nothing subpoenable and nothing a stalker who gains access to an account could reach. Offline isn't a feature here — it's the safety requirement.

For stalking and harassment victims building court-ready documentation privately. The free app everyone recommended, NNEDV's DocuSAFE, stopped working in October 2023 and the slot has been empty since; VictimsVoice is forty dollars a year and stored on a vendor's servers; other free options are region-locked to Australia. Pattern fills the gap: free, private, and built around the one thing that wins these cases — the pattern.

A look inside

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What's inside

• Log an incident — Structured entry following SPARC fields: date/time, location, what happened, witnesses, evidence reference, and impact on you
• Timeline — Every incident auto-sorts into a clean chronological timeline — the thing the PDF can't do
• Pattern view — Frequency and escalation visualization showing how often incidents happen and whether they are getting worse over time
• Court report — Export a clean, printable report formatted for a protective-order petition — timeline, details, and escalation summary
• Lock — Optional Face ID / passcode lock on the whole log; on-device only, nothing syncs

Why we built it

Stalking is proven by a pattern, so victims must log every small incident — but the standard free tool (SPARC's log) is a hand-filled PDF that can't sort or show escalation, and the cloud apps create an account, email trail, or vendor-stored copy a stalker could access. There is no free, offline, US-usable pattern log…

What makes it different

Pattern is the only free, fully on-device stalking and harassment log that pairs SPARC-aligned structured incidents with an auto-built chronological timeline, a frequency-and-escalation visualization, and a printable report formatted for a protective-order petition — the structured, sortable, escalation-showing job SP…

Who it's for

Anyone who values a small, sharp, single-purpose tool that does one job well and stays out of the way.

In one line: Small incidents. One clear pattern.

Try it

See the Pattern app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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