Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Three things the iOS app does well
Journals are public by default, private when you choose. My favourite features from v1:
- Silence: No AI "writing assistants" or at all, no prompts asking how I feel on a scale of one to five, no emoji support or unnecessary formatting options (only bold, italic, links and unordered lists). Just a blank writing screen in a serif font, written distance, and my own thoughts.
- Strava/Apple HealthKit integration: Link any activity to an entry. Save private notes on your effort, or share a thought from the run.
- Social Cards: Built for sharing on Instagram stories. Turn any entry into a clean social card and copy to clipboard or post to Instagram stories directly.
For fellow geeks: Also, offline-first as entries are cached locally with SwiftData (instant cold start). Network-aware UI. Custom write/editor which was rewritten to use UTF-16 NSString math throughout.