Open a protected download

A download of your data that you protected with a passphrase, opened in your browser.

Your file is opened on your device, by this page: it is never uploaded, and nothing about it is sent anywhere. You don’t need to sign in, so a file still opens here after the account it came from is deleted.

Open a file

The protected file (its name ends in .age)Its passphrase

With the age app

A protected download is an age file (age-encryption.org), so the age app opens it too, without Nya. It runs on macOS, Linux and Windows. In a terminal:

age -d -o nya-data-2026-10-10.json nya-data-2026-10-10.json.age

It asks for the passphrase, then writes the opened file. To install it: brew install age on a Mac with Homebrew, apt install age on Debian or Ubuntu, or winget install --id FiloSottile.age on Windows.

If it doesn’t open

Type the passphrase exactly as you set it: capitals, spaces and punctuation count. Nya never keeps it, so nobody can recover a lost one, and nobody can open the file without it.
A file that was cut short while it was saved, or changed since, doesn’t open at all rather than opening in part. Download it again.
Unlocking the file takes about 256 MB of memory for a few seconds, then room for what it opens. An older phone may stop the page, or say it can’t spare the memory: open the file on a computer instead.
Once opened, the file isn’t protected any more, so keep it somewhere safe.