Capture
Speak or type whatever's on your mind. Your voice is transcribed on the device the moment you finish — no upload, no waiting on a server.
Works in airplane mode — by design
Your thoughts never leave your phone.
Inward is a voice-first journaling companion. Speak a thought aloud — it's transcribed and gently reflected back to you, entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is watching.
Coming soon to theApp Store
Free for 7 days, then yours to keep going.
Airplane mode
9:14
“I keep putting off the call to my dad. I think I'm scared of how it'll go.”
A gentle prompt
You've returned to this twice this week. What feels different about today?
On-device transcription
Encrypted local storage
Zero network traffic
Export only when you choose
The on-device promise
Private isn't a setting. It's the architecture.
Most journaling apps ask you to trust a privacy policy. Inward asks you to test it. The entire journaling path — capture, transcription, and reflection — runs on your phone using Apple's on-device foundation models. There is no account, no cloud, no sync server quietly listening.
Verifiably offline
Put your phone in airplane mode and the journaling path keeps working, end to end. No connection required, ever.
No network traffic
Your words are processed where they're written. Nothing is sent, indexed, or uploaded behind the scenes.
Encrypted on your phone
Entries are stored in an encrypted local database (SQLCipher) and held behind your biometric lock.
You hold the only key
If you ever export, it's client-side encrypted and only happens on your command. Your reflections stay yours.
What it does
A quiet place to think out loud.
Four things, done with care — so the page between you and your thoughts stays blank of friction.
Feature 01
Speak it, or write it — transcribed on-device
Open Inward and talk the way you'd talk to a notebook that listens. Speech becomes clean, editable text on your phone in real time. Prefer to type? The page is always there. No microphone audio ever leaves the device.
Feature 02
Reflective prompts that come from your own words
After you write, Inward offers a gentle, open-ended prompt drawn from what you just said — never advice, never a verdict. It surfaces recurring themes you've touched before, so you can notice them in your own time.
Feature 03
A weekly review that finds patterns across your entries
Once a week, Inward looks back across what you've written — entirely through on-device search — and gathers the threads that keep showing up. It's a mirror held to your own pages, helping you see the shape of a week without re-reading every line.
Feature 04
A private timeline that's only ever yours
Every entry lives in an encrypted timeline on your phone, locked behind Face ID or Touch ID. Search it, revisit it, or let it rest. Nothing is shared, and nothing leaves unless you deliberately export it.
How it works
Three steps, none of them leave the device.
A real sequence — capture, reflect, keep — that begins and ends in your hand.
Reflect
On-device intelligence offers a gentle prompt and notes the themes you keep returning to — a mirror, not a judge. Take it or leave it.
Keep
Your entry settles into an encrypted timeline, locked behind your biometrics. It waits for you — and only you — whenever you want to return.
Pricing
Start free for a week. Then choose what fits.
Every plan is the full Inward — voice, reflection, weekly review, and the same on-device privacy. Pick the rhythm that suits you.
Best value · billed annually
Yearly
$59.99 / year
Right around $5 a month, billed once a year. For when the practice has stuck.
Monthly
$9.99 / month
Month to month, cancel anytime. A gentle way to build the habit.
Lifetime
$129.99 once
No subscription, ever. Possible precisely because everything runs on-device — no servers to pay for.
Every plan begins with a free 7-day trial. No account needed to start.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Does my data ever leave my phone?
No. The entire journaling path — recording, transcription, reflection, and storage — happens on your device. There's no account and no cloud sync. You can put your phone in airplane mode and Inward keeps working end to end. The only time anything leaves is if you deliberately export it, and that export is encrypted on your device first.
How does the reflection work without the internet?
Inward uses Apple's on-device foundation models to read what you've written and offer an open-ended prompt. The model lives on your phone, so the reflection is generated locally — no request is ever sent to a server.
Is this therapy or mental-health treatment?
No. Inward is a reflective journaling and self-reflection tool — a companion for thinking and writing. It doesn't diagnose, treat, or provide medical or mental-health care. If you're looking for clinical support, please reach out to a qualified professional.
What keeps my entries private if I lose my phone?
Entries are stored in an encrypted local database (SQLCipher) and locked behind your device's biometrics — Face ID or Touch ID. Without your unlock, the contents stay sealed.
Can I get my writing out of the app?
Yes, on your terms. You can export your entries whenever you like. The export is client-side encrypted and only created when you choose to make one — Inward never produces or transmits it on its own.
Why offer a lifetime option?
Because the math allows it. With everything running on-device, there are no servers to keep paying for — so a single one-time purchase can genuinely last for the life of the app.
Begin
Some thoughts are better whispered to no one but yourself.
Give yourself a private place to think out loud — one that proves its privacy instead of promising it.
Coming soon to theApp Store
Free 7-day trial. Nothing uploaded, ever.