Every warrior had a charioteer.
Yours keeps count.

Not unless you switch on a feature that sends it — and each one says so before you can. There is no telemetry, and on the desktop app everything lives in a single SQLite file on your own PC. The only request Vyuha makes on its own is download-only: at launch it asks GitHub whether a newer signed release exists and fetches the licence-revocation list — it sends no account, no identifier and no data, and this one cannot be switched off. Everything else is off by default and yours to enable: an end-of-day bhavcopy download for mark-to-market prices; broker pulls that talk only to your own broker's API; a live price feed from a bridge you run yourself or from your own broker's API, carrying the symbols of your open positions and nothing else about them; and Telegram — a daily digest of your own recorded numbers and, on Pro, stop/target alerts that carry a symbol, a price and your level but never a quantity or a rupee figure. Telegram is the only path that sends anything from your journal to a company other than your own broker, and it is enabled only behind a disclosure that says plainly the content goes to Telegram's servers.

No — and Windows will say so. Vyuha is built by one independent developer and the installer carries no code-signing certificate, so SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC" the first time you run it: click More info → Run anyway. That is a reputation warning, not a virus warning, and your antivirus may flag a new unsigned binary for the same reason. There is no macOS build on sale — Windows 10/11 64-bit only. What is signed is the update: releases are signed with Vyuha’s own updater key, and nothing installs on its own — the app shows Update now / Later and waits for you.

Your record is free. The intelligence about it is paid. Free forever: recording closed trades, all eight broker importers, the dashboard and P&L calendar, staged positions, playbooks, chart screenshots, the trade calculator, backups and full CSV/JSON export. Payment unlocks the analytics layer (free for your first 7 days, then Pro or lifetime) — the portfolio risk cockpit, Arjun's Eye and the edge/discipline reports, the Trade Review Desk (the review queue, the Sunday ritual and the Process Score), the options-seller journal, the tax suite (Tax Summary, ITR pack, advance tax, harvesting, AIS reconcile), broker-cost and cross-broker MTF comparison, PDF reports, and live open-position tracking with stops and targets.

The part that matters: every trade you have already recorded stays readable, editable and exportable without a key, forever. If you never buy, you still own your journal — not a read-only screenshot of it.

Eight brokers are auto-detected: Zerodha (tradebook and Console P&L), Dhan, Groww, Angel One, Upstox, Paytm Money, Fyers (tradebook — the filename must say “fyers”) and Nuvama (the P&L report, with the charges Nuvama billed) — tradebook or aggregated P&L exports. Fyers and Nuvama equity rows are not yet verified against a real export and import with a warning. Any other broker's CSV goes through the column mapper, where you say which column is which. And Zerodha, Dhan, Angel One and Upstox can also be pulled directly over their APIs (Import → Connect broker) — one click after market close. Brokers with no API of their own — Groww, Paytm Money, Kotak — can pull same-day through OpenAlgo, an open-source bridge you run on your own computer: off by default, and your broker credentials go into your own OpenAlgo instance, never into Vyuha. Everything is de-duplicated, and charges are recomputed from your own rate card so you can see exactly where your broker's number differs.

Yes. Copy your database file across and re-paste your key. If your key was locked to a specific machine at your request, message us with the new Machine ID shown in Settings → License and we will re-issue it.

Yes, and it is written down — the full policy ships inside your download. The short version: you get 7 days of the complete Pro feature set before paying anything, so the trial is where you decide. After purchase, if Vyuha will not install, will not activate, or is broken in a way we cannot fix within 7 days, you get a full refund — as you do if you were charged twice or charged the wrong amount. Beyond that, purchases are final, because the trial already gave you the whole product for nothing. If we refund you, your journal still works: every trade you recorded stays readable, editable and exportable.