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What Elata is

Elata is a marketplace and an open-source toolkit for privacy-respecting biosignal apps: apps that respond to your heart rate, your brain activity, and other signals from your body.
  • 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. Raw signals stay on the device. Anything shared beyond an app, such as the cross-app biometric Score, is opt-in and can be turned off.
You don’t need special hardware to start. Many apps work with an ordinary webcam. Apps that read brain activity use a consumer EEG headband 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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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

How to work with Elata

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