🌍 These lockets are fully public. Anyone in the world can browse the fence, find your key, and read what you left behind — now and decades from now.
What is I Was Here?
Every life touches a place.
Now that place remembers you.
I Was Here is lockets.app's public fence — a digital wall where anyone can lock a message to a place that mattered to them. Unlike your private vault, these lockets are open to the entire world.
Think of it like carving your initials into a tree, or leaving a note tucked into a library book. Except this mark lasts forever, and strangers across the world can find it, read it, and feel the weight of the life you lived there.
Real moments, sealed forever
What people leave on the fence
Simple to seal
Four steps to leave
your mark forever
Choose your place
Enter the name of any location that mattered — a beach, a city street, a hospital corridor, a mountain trail, a café where everything changed. It doesn't need to be famous. It just needs to be real.
e.g. "The bench outside my old flat on Brunswick Street, Melbourne"
Choose your moment type
Was this a quiet moment, a holiday memory, a milestone, a place of memorial, or simply a place you loved? Your moment type helps others browsing the fence understand what you left behind.
e.g. Milestone · Holiday · In memory of · Quiet moment · A place I love
Write your locket
Say what happened there. What you felt. What you want the world to know about that moment. Write a sentence or a page. There is no wrong way — only honest and dishonest, and you already know which one to choose.
e.g. "I stood here the morning my mother died and watched the sun rise. I didn't know what else to do."
Seal it on the public fence
Your locket is placed publicly on the world's fence. Anyone browsing lockets.app can find it. It stays there permanently — a piece of you, at that place, in that moment, for as long as the internet exists.
Your locket is immediately live and visible worldwide.
Why public?
Because some moments
deserve to be witnessed
Your private vault is for the people you name. I Was Here is different — it's a gift to the world. A stranger walking past that place in fifty years might stumble on your locket and feel less alone.
Every locket on the public fence is a piece of evidence that a human being stood somewhere and felt something. Collected together, they are a record of human experience at the places that shaped us.
Anyone on earth can browse the fence and read your locket — no account required.
Once placed, your locket cannot be edited or removed. It's a commitment to that moment.
Your locket lives at the location you chose — grounded in the physical world.
Public fence keys are archived with the same 100-year commitment as your private vault.
Honest pricing
Choose your key
One place. One moment. One key. Or a year of places, every one sealed.
Personal Key
one entry
Travel Pack
3 keys
Legacy Key
12 months
No subscription. Keys are permanently sealed once placed. Legacy Key unlocks unlimited entries for 12 months from purchase.
"The meaning of life is to find your gift.
The purpose of life is to give it away."
Leave something for the world to find.
Start your own
Ready to leave your mark?
Your first 100 words are free. No credit card needed. Sign up and seal your first location locket in under two minutes.