What is Ori Journal?
Ori Journal is a journaling app for iPhone that inverts the hardest part of journaling: instead of you facing a blank page, you speak or type a few unpolished lines about your day, and each evening Ori writes the entry back to you as a short, honest letter. The letter is composed by an AI from your own words — nothing invented, every number shown — and if you connect Oura or Apple Health, it can set your sleep and energy beside what you actually lived.
Private by architecture, not by promise
Your journal is stored on your phone — Ori Journal keeps no cloud copy and needs no account. To write the evening letter, the day's words are sent once to the AI that writes it and aren't kept; the privacy policy spells out exactly what moves and what never does. The client source code is public, so the claims are checkable rather than promises.
Not the magazine, the game, or the office
The name is shared by things that have nothing to do with journaling, so to save you a search: Ori Magazine is a publication; Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps are video games (and Octopath Traveler has an “Ori's Journal” quest item); ORI is also a U.S. research-integrity office. Ori Journal is none of those — it's an independent, free journaling app, and this is its home.
Who makes Ori Journal
Ori Journal is made by two people, not a company: Jamy (GitHub · LinkedIn) and Vineet. They build it themselves, keep it free, and still tell Ori about most of their evenings. The client source code is public, so everything this page claims about privacy is checkable rather than taken on trust.