HushNotes: The journal you own.

HushNotes is a private journal that stays on your iPhone. There is no account, no server and no network code, so everything works in Airplane Mode, and the App Store label says Data Not Collected.

Every entry becomes a block in its feeling’s colour. Bring your old journal in from Day One, a journal saved as web pages or a text folder, ask it questions and get your own words back. Pay once for Pro, $24.99, with Family Sharing.

What HushNotes does

Each entry a block in its feeling’s colour
Import from Day One, web pages or text files
Ask, and get back sentences you wrote
Dictation that stays on your iPhone
Face ID lock and a Private space
Export to Markdown, PDF or JSON, free

Ideal for: Anyone with years of entries they want to keep, and anyone who wants to write without a company reading along.

Your days, in the colours they felt

Each entry takes the colour of the feeling you chose, and an open entry fills the screen with it.
A month becomes a wall of colour. Once you have written for more than a year, each year gets its own row. Nothing resets, and a day you didn’t write leaves no gap.
Eight feelings, always in the same order. They are not ranked from good to bad, and none of them is red. You pick the feeling; HushNotes never guesses it or scores it.
Choosing a feeling is optional. Every feeling has its name next to its colour, so colour is never the only clue.

No account. No server. Nothing sent.

HushNotes has no network code at all: no sign-in, no analytics, no ads, no third-party code. Turn on Airplane Mode and writing, voice, search and Ask all still work.
Lock HushNotes with Face ID or your passcode, with a Private space for entries that need a second lock.
One plain fact: if iCloud Backup is on, iOS includes your journal in your iPhone’s backup, and a switch in the app leaves it out.
App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected.

Your old journal, with its dates

Import is free. HushNotes reads the file you pick in Files, on your iPhone. Your old app isn’t told, and nothing is uploaded.
Day One: its JSON export. Dates, tags and photos come along.
Journal saved as web pages: a ZIP or folder of .html pages. Dates and photos come along.
A text folder: .md or .txt files. A date at the start of a file name is kept.

Ask, in your own words

Ask “when did I last feel like this?” and get back sentences you wrote, each with its date. Nothing is made up; if nothing matches, HushNotes says so.
Search finds entries by what they mean, not only by the words in them.
On this day, a weekly review, feeling trends and letters to your future self. Looking back works on every iPhone that runs iOS 26, in Airplane Mode too.

Type it or say it

Dictate an entry: your speech becomes text on your iPhone, and the recording is thrown away unless you choose to keep it.
Not sure what to write? Ask for a gentle question. It never rewrites your words.
Add photos to an entry. Export everything as Markdown, PDF or JSON, free, any time.

A short list of people to call

If you write something that sounds like you are in a hard place, HushNotes shows a short list of support lines for your region.
The list is written by people and stored in the app. Nothing about it is saved or sent.

$24.99, once. Nothing to cancel.

Writing is free, always. HushNotes Pro is a single purchase: no subscription, and you will never get a renewal email. Try Pro free for 14 days on your iPhone, with no card.

HushNotes, Free. Unlimited entries and photos, voice entries, the lock and the Private space, import and export.
HushNotes Pro, $24.99 once. Ask your journal, search by meaning, the weekly review, feeling trends and letters to your future self. Renews: never. Account: none. Family Sharing: yes.

Price in USD; it varies by region. When the 14 days end, your entries are untouched and the free features keep working.

HushNotes is a journal. It doesn’t diagnose, treat or give medical advice.