Private Mode in Aikeedo: One Switch, the Whole App, Off the Record

Most AI products offer some kind of private chat. You start one on purpose, it lives in its own window, and when you leave it, it is gone. Then you want to generate an image privately, or transcribe a recording, and there is nothing — private mode stops at the chat.

Aikeedo 4.1 had that kind of temporary chat. In v5.1 we replaced it with something we think is simpler and, as far as we know, unusual: a private mode that covers the whole app and stays on until you turn it off.

Turn it on, use anything, go anywhere, come back — you are still private. Turn it off, and you are back to normal.

How It Works for Your Users

One switch

A ghost button beside New in the sidebar (and in the header on mobile) turns private mode on. Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + X does the same from the keyboard. When it is on, the app pages dim so nobody forgets which mode they are in, and if the sidebar is collapsed, a Private badge appears in the head bar so there is still a way to see it and switch it off.

It follows you

The state is remembered by the browser, not by a page. Move between Chat, Imagine, Video, Voiceover and the rest, open settings, reload, open another tab — private mode stays on. There is nothing to turn on again before each use, which is the point: a privacy feature that depends on remembering to start it will be forgotten at the worst moment.

Turning it off returns you to normal mode, in the same browser. Your regular history and library were never touched.

Everything created is temporary

While it is on, everything a user creates is private to that session: chats, images, videos, voice-overs, transcripts, classifications, isolated voices, and whatever chat tools produce along the way. Private items:

• stay out of history, Recents and the library,
• are listed only in that browser's private session and cannot be reached from anywhere else,
• and are deleted automatically after the retention period you set.

Each tool says so under its heading while the mode is on: what you create here stays out of your history and library, and is deleted after the retention period.

While it is on, you see only what is private

In private mode, lists show only the current session's items. A user's regular conversations and library are out of view until they turn private mode off, so a private session starts clean and cannot leak into anything else on screen.

Nothing left behind by accident

The private session begins with the first thing the user creates, not when the switch is flipped. Turn the mode on and straight off, and nothing was written and nothing needs confirming.

Leaving on purpose

If a session holds anything when the user turns the mode off, a prompt says how many items they will no longer be able to open and reminds them to save anything they want to keep first. Private items offer Save where regular ones offer Share.

If a generation is still running, the prompt says so: it will finish and count toward usage, but end up out of reach.

What It Does Not Do

We would rather be plain about this than oversell it.

• It is per browser. The state and the session live in that browser. Another browser or device is not in private mode unless the user turns it on there.
• It is not deletion on the spot. Private items are held until the retention period ends, then purged, along with their files and embeddings. Anything unsaved is gone after that.
• It does not change what AI providers do. Private mode governs what Aikeedo keeps. Prompts still go to the model provider you chose, under that provider's data policy.
• It does not hide usage. Credits and usage are counted as usual. A private generation costs what a regular one does.

The Operator Perspective

Private mode is a feature you control. Under Settings → Features → Privacy & safety, next to the safety checker:

• Turn it on or off for the whole platform.
• Set the retention period — how many days private items are kept before they are deleted. The default is one day.
• Control it per plan, so private mode can be a benefit of a particular plan.

Expired items are removed through the regular delete, so their files and embeddings go with them. Generations that got stuck are failed and their credit is released, and items still generating are left for their provider's webhook to finish.

If you are updating from an earlier release, re-enable private mode after the update. It replaces the chat-only temporary chat setting, which no longer exists.

Why We Built It This Way

Our private chats in 4.1 were a good feature that stopped at a boundary: the chat. But people do not think in tools. They think "I do not want this on the record", whether it is a sensitive question, a draft, a client's image or a recording of a meeting.

A mode that applies everywhere, and sticks, matches that. It also means that when your users compare Aikeedo to the AI products they already use, this is one place where yours does more.

Getting Started

Update to v5.1, enable private mode under Settings → Features → Privacy & safety, choose your retention period, and check your plans. Your users will find the switch beside New.

The documentation has the full details, and the v5.1 release post covers everything else that is new.

Try the live demo to see it in action, or head to our pricing page if you are ready to get started.