Dayglean
A journal that notices.
Tap a mood. Write a line if you feel like it, or don't. Once a week, Dayglean reads what you gave it and hands back one specific observation about your own life. Not a chart. Not an affirmation. Something you can check against your own entries.
iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Free to start, with a week of the full app.
Thirty seconds a day
Write almost nothing.
A day's record is a moment: one mood, and whatever else you want to keep with it. Text, a photo, your voice. No forced prompts, no daily limit, and nothing to fill in before you are allowed to close the app.
01
Tap a mood
Five faces. That alone is a complete moment, and the streak counts it.
02
Add a line, or don't
A sentence, a photo, or your voice. Come back later and add more to the same day.
03
Read it back on Sunday
One observation, drawn from the week you actually recorded.
The Pattern Drop
Once a week, one thing you did not know.
Every Drop names what it found and cites the moments it came from, so you can go back and judge it against your own writing. No advice, no encouragement. It reports what is in the record and stops.
A recurring pairing
The days you scored highest this month were mostly days with something on the calendar before noon.
A timing pattern
Three of the last four dips landed on a Sunday.
A recovery fact
The last four times a day was scored this low, it lifted inside three days.
Something said twice
The word "behind" appeared in six entries this month, always in the same context.
Example wording. Not anyone's real entries.
What is in it
Cheap to write in. Worth reading back.
Pattern Drops
One named, specific observation from your own entries, with its sources cited. Free includes one a month; Dayglean+ makes it weekly, with follow-up chat.
Streaks without guilt
Freeze days are built in and refill on their own. Eight milestones from three days to a full year. Nothing wilts, nothing shames you back.
Speak it instead Dayglean+
Tap the mic and talk. The page follows your voice line by line, so you can watch your words land while you think out loud.
A year on one screen Dayglean+
The calendar turns your months into a mood heatmap, and the timeline folds into months and weeks, so last March is three taps away.
Search and look back Dayglean+
Full search across everything you have written, plus a weekly recap built entirely on your device.
Yours on paper Dayglean+
Export the whole journal, photos included, as a PDF. Seven accents, six paper grounds and alternate app icons make it your own notebook.
Where your entries go
Nowhere, by default.
They stay on your phone, protected by Face ID if you want it, and backed up to your own iCloud. The weekly analysis is the only part that can send anything out, and it is off until you turn it on, on a plain-language consent screen.
- Entries stay on your device
- Never used to train an AI model
- One subscription, no second paywall
- No ads, and your words are never sold
Pricing
One price, nothing hidden behind it.
Every install starts with a free week of the full app. After that, the journal itself stays free for good.
Free
Forever
- Unlimited moments: mood, text, photos
- Your full timeline and streaks
- Face ID app lock
- One Pattern Drop every month
Dayglean+
$4.99 a month, or $29.99 a year
- A Pattern Drop every week, with follow-up chat
- Voice journaling
- Search, calendar view, weekly recap
- PDF export of everything
- Accents, backgrounds and app icons
One tier. No second paywall inside it, and the price never changes without Apple telling you first. Cancel in Settings any time.
The measure is not the download count.
It is whether somebody learned one true thing about themselves and changed something because of it.