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What Elata is

Elata is a platform for building and using consumer-friendly biosensing, neuroscience, and cognitive applications that respect your privacy.
  • Elata (app.elata.bio) is where people find and play these apps in the browser, and where builders publish them.
  • The Elata SDK is a set of open-source packages that turn a webcam or a consumer headband into a biosignal sensor, with processing that runs on the user’s own device.
  • Privacy is built in. Collected information stays on the users device. Anything shared beyond an app, such as the cross-app biometric Score, is opt-in and can be turned off or deleted fully at the discretion of the user.
One thing that makes Elata vastly different than any other product on the market today is that you don’t need special hardware to begin using applications on the platform. Apps on Elata can turn an ordinary webcam or phone camera into a biosensor, using subtle changes in your face and behavior to measure or estimate signals like heart rate, heart rate variability, breathing rate, blink rate, affective state, and more. We also support applications that can read brain activity over the web. These applications rely on consumer-grade EEG devices, such as Muse.
Elata apps are for wellness, games, learning, and research. They are not medical devices and don’t diagnose or treat any condition. See Safety and limitations.

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Building technology that’s open, transparent, and private

Elata is built around open-source software, transparent experimentation, and the idea that biosensing technology should be understandable, inspectable, extensible, and privacy-focused to the people using it. Much of the technology behind Elata is developed publicly on GitHub, from the SDKs that power today’s apps to earlier experiments that helped shape what Elata has become. A couple notable examples:
  • Elata EEG is our open-source effort to build a low-cost, right-to-repair EEG hardware device for neuroscience research and fun DIY Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) projects, such as the brain-controlled gaming competition we did in Singapore in 2025.
  • ZORP is an experiment we did to initiate permissionless research infrastructure for collecting data, coordinating scientific studies, and rewarding participants.
Not every experiment becomes part of the current Elata product, but we keep this work public because useful ideas, code, and research shouldn’t disappear when a project changes direction. You can explore our current and past work on GitHub.

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Who these docs are for

Users

Find apps, play them, and control your data

Builders

Build a biosignal app and publish it on Elata

Researchers

How the measurements work and where they fall short

Partners

Work together with the Elata community or team

Device makers

Bring your hardware to the Elata SDK

Community

Discord, X, Farcaster, and GitHub

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How to read these docs

Every capability in these docs has a status, so you always know what you can use today: Pages that aren’t fully live carry a tag in the sidebar. The full list is on the Status page.

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Where to start

How it fits together

The ecosystem map: devices, SDK, apps, and Elata

Find your path

Suggested reading for each audience