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A journal for iPhone · Coming soon

Easy to begin. Worth returning to.

Find your words. Keep your moments. See what matters over time. Jurnl pairs the space of a journal with an AI companion that helps you begin and brings fresh perspective to the pages you keep.

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Jurnl’s arrival screen. It asks “How are you arriving?” and offers words to choose from — steady, bright, hopeful, tender, tired, foggy — with tender selected. Below, a question to begin with: “What would you like to remember about right now?”, with Another, a Begin writing button, and Start with a blank page.
The arrival screen, with an example question. View full size

Why keep a journal

A place to think. A way to remember.

  • Put thoughts into words.

    You don’t need to know exactly how you feel before you start. On the page, a thought takes a shape you can look at.

  • Find a little perspective.

    Writing lets you step back from a busy day, and come back to what happened in your own time.

  • Keep what matters.

    An ordinary moment, a good conversation, the light in the kitchen: written down, it becomes something you can return to.

You don’t need to be a writer. Jurnl helps you find a first line, then gives you something worth returning to.

How it works

Begin, write, close the book.

  1. Begin

    A question to start from. Or a blank page.

    Pick a word for how you’re arriving and Jurnl offers a question to begin with. Its AI companion can take in the moment, and in time the threads running through your pages. Not quite right? Ask for Another, or go straight to a blank page.

  2. Write

    A line is enough. So are three pages.

    If you’re interrupted, the page waits exactly where you left it, on your iPhone and in your private iCloud, until you come back to finish it or tear it up.

    A page you leave open is saved, but isn't sent for AI reflection while it's unfinished.

  3. Close the book

    A small ending. Then back to your day.

    Closing the book finishes the entry and keeps it as you wrote it, among the pages the companion can draw on. Each day you write adds to your count; days away take nothing from it.

    Optional page sounds for opening and closing the book.

The top of Jurnl’s writing page: Leave open, then Tue · 22 Sep · 11:11 and Day one, above one example line: “The kettle, and then the quiet.”
The bottom of the same page: Tear the page and Close the book.
Cropped views of the writing page. View full size

The companion

The more you write, the more there is to notice.

Jurnl’s AI companion reads back what you’ve written and notices what’s there: a line worth a second look, a theme that keeps returning, the shape of a season. Its notes are grounded in your own words, and the view widens as your pages build.

Shown with an example journal.

  1. A page

    Your own words, seen again.

    • A thought, noticed

      Close the book, and a short note can appear with the entry, drawn from what you wrote. Entry notes can underline a word from your page.

    An entry in Jurnl. Under Fri · 11 Sep · 20:49 and Day one, the question “What caught your interest today?” and an entry about a heron on the canal, standing so still by the lock that the writer missed their turn. Below it, a note headed “A thought, noticed” reads: “The heron came up by the lock, and then the long way back to see if it was still there,” with the word heron underlined.
    An entry, with a note that underlines “heron”. Full size

  2. Recent writing

    What keeps coming back.

    • Your week

      Write on a few days, and it can notice what came up more than once.

    • This stretch

      The last couple of months in perspective, beyond one day’s impression. It can lead you back to the pages behind the thought.

    This week in Look back: three short entries. Today, 9 Sep: “Sleep is the thing underneath the thing. Said it out loud on the walk and it landed.” Tue 8 Sep: “The week caught up. I think I knew it on Wednesday and ignored it — not sleeping…” Mon 7 Sep: “Bins out. Then I stood in the kitchen longer than I needed to. First quiet I’d ha…” Below, a sage note headed “A thought from your week” reads: “Sleep came up more than once this week — the evenings reading a little quieter than where they started,” with Sleep underlined.
    A week of pages, and what came up more than once. Full size
    An amber note headed “A thought from this stretch” reads: “The garden has come up again and again, and work alongside it, through these weeks.” Beneath it, Pages behind this thought.
    This stretch, with the pages behind it a tap away. Full size

  3. The longer view

    A wider view, built over months.

    • Seasons

      When a three-month season closes, you can look back on it as a whole.

    • Chapters

      Life doesn’t keep to the calendar. Jurnl can suggest a chapter that follows what you’ve been writing about. It’s yours to keep, rename, adjust or let go.

    • What stays

      After many months of pages, the things that keep mattering across different parts of your journal.

    A card headed “A possible chapter”: The roof survey, 23 Jul – 31 Aug. It says “Nothing is saved unless you keep it.”, links to some of the pages behind it, and offers Keep this chapter, Rename, Adjust dates and Not this one.
    A possible chapter, found in the writing rather than the calendar. Full size
    Under Always, a clay note headed “What stays” reads: “The garden needed cutting back, both then and later.” Below it, two words that keep returning: garden and river.
    What stays, with the words that keep returning. Full size
    See a closed Season
    Summer ’26, 18 pages, June to August. An amber note headed “A thought from the season” reads: “Across these months the garden ran through the writing, and work kept returning beside it.” Beneath it, Pages behind this thought.
    Summer ’26, looked back on as a whole. Full size

Notes appear when your writing gives the companion something real to point at, so each one is there for a reason.

Worth keeping

Keep the picture with the words.

Some moments are a picture as much as a sentence: the heron by the river, the light across the kitchen table. Keep them together, and the page brings the whole moment back.

Add up to four still photos to a page as you write, or later to one you’ve closed, and your words stay just as you wrote them. Stack them, fan them out, arrange them your way, and swipe through them full screen.

Jurnl’s writing page. At the top, Leave open, then Sat · 26 Sep · 14:23 and Day four, above the entry: “The heron was by the river again. I took the long way home. Tea in the kitchen, then a few minutes in the garden before the light went.” Below it, three photos overlap at slight angles: a heron in the reeds by a river, a patterned mug on a sunlit kitchen table, and a garden path with orange flowers. At the bottom are a paperclip button, Tear the page and Close the book.
A page from an example journal, with three photos. View full size

  • Your own pace.

    No streak to keep. Jurnl counts the days you’ve written, however far apart they are, so coming back after a week or a season simply carries on.

  • An extra door, if you want one.

    Turn on journal lock, and Jurnl asks for Face ID, Touch ID or your device passcode before it opens.

Private

Your journal stays yours. Here’s how.

  • On your iPhone, in your iCloud.

    Your writing is saved on your iPhone, with sync to your own private iCloud. There’s no Jurnl account to write.

  • Only what a note needs.

    For a note or a guided question, Jurnl sends only the relevant writing and context needed for that request, with no name, account or device identifier added.

  • Nothing kept on our side.

    Jurnl’s own service is designed to keep none of that writing. Which AI provider writes the notes, and how long it may keep a request, will be set out in Jurnl’s privacy notice before release.

This is how Jurnl is designed to work. Jurnl’s privacy notice will confirm the details when the app is released.

How Jurnl is designed for privacy

Questions

A few things worth knowing.

Can I just write?

Yes. A blank page is always one tap away, and a question is only ever an offer: take it, ask for another, or skip it.

What if I stop for a while?

Nothing breaks. Your count of writing days waits, an open page stays where you left it, and a question is ready when you’re back.

Starting again

Does the companion read everything I write?

Each request uses relevant writing. When you close the book, that entry and a few relevant earlier passages may be used for a note. A page you leave open isn’t, and longer views draw on a few short passages from the stretch they look at.

What a note needs

How is this different from chatting with an AI?

Jurnl is built around a journal you keep. Your pages come first, and the companion’s notes sit beside them, grounded in what you wrote. There’s no conversation to keep up: you write, close the book, and come back when you like.

Is the companion a therapist or a coach?

No. It notices what’s in your writing and reflects it back; it doesn’t give advice or treatment. Jurnl includes a list of support services for where you are, but it isn’t one.

What does it cost?

Jurnl will be a paid app: one complete journal, with nothing held back for a premium tier. The price will be announced when it’s released.

When can I use it?

Jurnl is coming to iPhone. It isn’t available yet, and early access isn’t open.

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Jurnl is coming to iPhone. Early access isn’t open yet.

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