A private journal app — text, voice, and a little AI when you want it
tadoy is a daily journal app for iPhone. Long-form text and voice entries stay on your device. Editorial prompts meet you in the morning and again in the evening. An optional AI evening review ties the day together — but only if you turn it on.
What's in the journal
The journal sits inside the daily page, not in a separate app to switch to. Each day has space for as much or as little as you want to write — three lines, three paragraphs, or three pages. The timeline view lets you scroll back through what you've kept.
- Text journal — long-form, autosaving, with Markdown-light formatting.
- Voice journal — record, transcribe on-device, keep the audio.
- Daily prompts — one in the morning, one in the evening, editorial register.
- Affirmation card — a quiet daily line on the Mind page.
- Photos and snippets — drop in a photo or a quote when it matters.
- Timeline — scroll back through any day, search by text or date.
Why on-device journaling matters
Most journaling apps sync to a cloud, and most of them are honest about it. tadoy takes the other position: the journal stays on the device that wrote it. There's no copy on our servers. No model is trained on your entries. The only time text leaves the device is when you actively use one of the AI surfaces — and those send the message in the moment, not a copy of your archive. The optional evening review bundles a short summary of the day (not the full text) and only if you opt in. Full detail on the privacy page.
Where the journal sits in the daily page
The journal is one of four sides of the daily page. The other three — Body, Mind and Soul — hold what doesn't belong in prose: mood, habits, scripture, transits, sleep, exercise. The bet is that journaling works better when it shares a page with the rest of the day's signals — your morning entry can know what your sleep looked like, your evening entry can know what you logged.
How tadoy compares to other journal apps
- vs Apple Journal — Apple Journal is free and photo-led. tadoy is a daily page that adds mood, habits, body, scripture and astrology around the journal. Read the full comparison →
- vs Day One — Day One is the gold-standard long-term archive. tadoy is for people who want a journal inside a daily reflection page rather than a journaling-as-archive app. Read the full comparison →
- vs Stoic — Stoic is philosophy-led journaling. tadoy is post-tradition and editorial. Read the full comparison →
Pricing
tadoy is $9.99/month or $59.99/year. That's the full app — journal, mood, habits, body, goals, scripture, astrology, and the AI surfaces. No add-on tiers. No ads. A free first week to settle in plus a 7-day Apple trial before the first charge.
See the daily page Read the FAQ
Common questions about the journal
- Is it end-to-end encrypted?
- The journal is on-device by default — we don't sync it to our servers, which is a stronger posture than E2EE cloud sync (there's no server copy at all).
- Can I journal by voice?
- Yes. Record, on-device transcription, the audio is kept locally. Siri intents let you start hands-free.
- Are there daily prompts?
- Yes — one in the morning, one in the evening. Editorial register, tied to that day's signals.
- Does it work offline?
- Yes. The journal works fully offline. Only the AI surfaces need a connection.