No account. No ads. No analytics. Your journal stays on your device.
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One thread per part of your life
Work. Health. Dreams. Someone you miss. Each one is its own
conversation, so you are never scrolling past the wrong month to
find the right thought.
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Write in three seconds, close it, move on
Open the thread, type the line, send. No title, no date picker, no
mood wheel you have to answer first. It is the fastest thing on
your home screen.
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Nothing to keep up with
Miss a week and nothing scolds you. Reminders are off until you ask
for them, and when you do, they say exactly what you wrote.
What is inside
Everything a journal needs, in a shape you already understand.
The whole app is built around one idea: the reason people stop
journaling is that journals ask too much. This one asks for a sentence.
Threads, not entries
Name a thread after anything — a person, a project, a part of
yourself. Give it an icon, and it sits in the list like a chat
waiting for you.
Say how it actually felt
Eight moods, from great to angry, attached to the moment rather
than the day. Because "fine" is rarely the whole entry.
Photos, voice and places
Add a photo, record up to five minutes of voice, or pin where you
were. Location is only ever asked for on the tap that needs it.
Rate the day, out of ten
One tap when words are too much. Ratings and moods feed the
patterns you see later, so even a lazy entry counts.
Streaks and patterns
A year at a glance, your last twelve weeks, the places you write
from most, and the one word you keep reaching for.
Prompts when you stall
A short question appears in the thread — "what am I avoiding?" —
written by a person, not generated. Switch them off and they never
come back.
Locked behind your face
Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode on every launch, plus a switch
that hides entry previews in the thread list for shoulder-surfers.
Your iCloud, or nowhere
Sync across your devices through your own private iCloud, or turn
it off and keep the journal on one device. Both are one switch.
Export everything, any time
Your whole journal as plain text or JSON, in one tap. No export
queue, no email link, no waiting — it is your writing.
A look around
Five screens, and you have seen the whole app.
Every part of your life, one list
Write it the way you'd text it
Moods, photos, voice, places
The habit, made visible
A new thread takes a moment
Privacy
We cannot read your journal. There is nowhere for it to arrive.
Most journaling apps promise privacy and then run a server. Tutur Notes
does not have one. There is no backend, no account to create, and no
analytics SDK in the build — so your writing has no route off your
device except the one you choose.
Entries are stored on your device. Sync, if you turn it on, goes to your private iCloud — not to us.
No account, no sign-up, no email address collected. The app never asks who you are.
No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifiers, no third-party SDKs.
Photos, microphone and location are asked for only at the moment you tap to use them.
Reminders are scheduled on your device and say what you wrote. Nothing is sent through a server.
Delete the app and the local journal goes with it. Export first — it takes one tap.
Yes. The current version has no in-app purchases and no
subscription — every feature described on this page is included.
Paid features may be added in a future version. If that happens,
anything you have already written stays yours and stays
accessible, and the price will be shown to you before you are
ever charged.
Do I need an account?
No, and you cannot make one. There is no sign-up screen because
there is no server to sign up to. Open the app and start writing.
What happens if I lose my phone?
If iCloud sync is on, your journal restores with the rest of your
iCloud data on a new device signed in to the same Apple Account.
If you turned sync off, the journal lives on that one device and
is included in an encrypted iPhone backup, but nowhere else. We
cannot recover it for you — we have never had a copy. Export to
a file now and then if that worries you.
Can I get my writing out?
Any time, from Settings → Export everything. You get the whole
journal as a plain .txt file or as structured
.json, and you choose where it goes.
Does it use AI to read or reply to my entries?
No. The prompts you occasionally see in a thread — "what am I
avoiding?", "one thing that went right" — come from a fixed list
written by a person. Nothing you write is sent to a language
model, ours or anybody else's.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone and iPad, on {{minimumOS}}. The layout adapts to the
larger screen rather than stretching the phone version.
How do I get help, or send a complaint?
Write to {{supportEmail}}
and a person answers — usually {{responseTime}}. There is more
detail, including what to include so the reply is useful, on the
support page.
Start the thread you keep meaning to start.
It takes one sentence. Tonight's entry can be four words long and it
still counts.
