A private journal that lives on your phone

No account, no sign up

The free app has no sign up screen, because there is nothing to sign you up for. Capture, the week of moons, the archive, the Sunday recap, reminders and export all work without an account, with no limit on how much you keep.

We have no copy of what you write, because nothing in the free app is sent to us. There is no profile to fill in, no email list to join and no login to forget.

Everything on the phone

Your things, the day each one belongs to and your settings are stored on the phone itself. The daily reminder is scheduled by the phone too, with no server involved.

Typing works with no connection at all, and on most phones speech recognition runs on the device as well, so the journal works offline: on a plane, in a basement, on a hill with no signal.

Never any audio

Spoken entries are turned into text by your phone's own speech service as you talk, and only the text is kept. Gratitude has no recorder. No audio is written to the phone, uploaded, synced, exported or played back, and our servers have no place to keep a recording.

A small, plain journal

Gratitude keeps three small good things a day, a sentence or two each. That narrow shape is part of the privacy: no mood scores, no photos and no location, just the words you chose to keep and the day you kept them.

Export and delete, whenever you like

Export gives you every word you have kept, with its day, as a file. Where it goes next is up to you. Deleting a thing removes it from your journal, and deleting the app removes everything it stored.

If you have an account, you can delete it from the app or by email. Deletion is scheduled 30 days out, signing in before then keeps the account, and after that everything tied to it is purged from our servers.

What sync moves, when you turn it on

Backup and sync is part of Premium and stays off until you turn it on. When it is on, it moves your kept words, the day each belongs to and a few preferences, such as your language and reminder time, between your phones through your account, where only you can read them.

Sync deletes nothing: a thing you delete on one phone is marked deleted on the other. It never moves audio, because there is none. Export stays free whether you sync or not.