How Chronicled works
You make your work the way you always do. Chronicled records the journey, seals it so it can never be changed, and gives you a certificate anyone can check. Here's what that means, in plain terms.
The proof behind the seal
A finished image says nothing about how it was made. So instead of judging the final picture, Chronicled certifies the making: the rhythm of your hand as you work, snapshots of the piece taking shape session by session, and the device it was created on. These traces are woven into one sealed record — and because each is independent of the others, faking one isn't enough. That's what the score on your certificate reflects.
Sessions become a permanent record
Work on your piece whenever you like — an evening, a weekend, months apart. Each session is stamped with the date it happened, using the Bitcoin blockchain as a public, neutral clock that nobody (including us) can wind back. When you finish and certify, all your sessions are locked together into one permanent record: nothing can be added, removed, or backdated afterwards. Taking your time actually strengthens your certificate — a piece that grew over real weeks is far harder to fake than one that appeared overnight.
A watermark, added for you
When you certify a finished work, we invisibly watermark the image for you — no extra steps. The watermark quietly points back to your certificate, and it's layered several ways so it survives screenshots, crops, and re-saves. If your art ever turns up somewhere unexpected, anyone can drop that copy into the Watermark Lab and trace it straight back to you.
Importing from Procreate (In Development)
We're building a way to certify work made in Procreate: export your timelapse and upload it, and we check both that it genuinely came from Procreate and that it builds up gradually the way real drawing does. This feature is in development — you're welcome to try it today, but treat it as a preview.
What stays private
A certificate always shows the creation timelapse — how the piece took shape. The full session log — your notes, uploaded files, and session-by-session images — is hidden from visitors unless you switch it on for that work, with a setting on your certificate. You always see your own sessions. Beyond what you choose to show, only digital fingerprints are public: enough to prove the record is intact, nothing more.
What we can — and can't — promise
An honest note: no system makes forgery impossible, and we won't pretend otherwise. What Chronicled does is make faking your work expensive and tampering visible — several independent safeguards would all have to be defeated at once, without leaving a trace. We'd rather promise you that, honestly, than promise magic.