A journal that's nobody's business but yours.
Most journaling apps ask you to make an account and quietly keep your entries on their servers. Ori doesn't. Your journal lives on your phone — no account, nothing sold, nothing shared, no one reading over your shoulder. And it still writes you back each evening. Free.
Private isn't a setting. It's the design.
You should be able to write the truest version of your day without wondering who else can read it. With Ori, there's no account to create and no copy of your journal sitting in someone's cloud. Your entries stay on your device. Nothing is sold or shared with advertisers or data brokers, and you choose what Ori is allowed to see — and can turn any of it off. The one time your words leave the phone is to write your letter — sent once to the AI, and not kept.
What "private" actually means here
- On-device, not on a server. Your journal lives on your phone — not in a database somewhere you can't see.
- No account, no email wall. You don't hand over your identity to start. There's nothing to sign up for.
- Nothing sold, nothing shared. You are not the product. There are no ads and no data brokers in the loop.
- You hold the switches. You decide what Ori sees — your words, your sleep, your activity — and you can turn any source off.
Stored, processed, retained — the three words that matter
Most privacy pages blur these three together. Here they are, separated — this is the whole data model:
On your device. Every entry and every letter live in your phone's storage — that's the journal's only home.
Transiently, when something is generated. Writing your evening letter sends the day's words — and, only if you allow it, a short body-signal summary — out once to the AI that writes it. Speaking an entry sends your voice to a speech service that returns the text.
No cloud copy of your journal, no account, and the letter's context isn't kept after the letter comes back.
That's the honest shape of it: stored on-device, processed transiently, retained nowhere else — and the privacy policy is the binding version of this page.
Still writes you back
Private usually means you're on your own with a blank page. Not here. Even though your journal is stored only on your phone, Ori still reads your day back to you each evening as a short, honest letter — drawn only from what you shared. To write that 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. Quiet, yours, and free.
The privacy other journals talk about, by default.
Stays on your device
Your journal lives on your phone, not on a server. There's no cloud copy to leak, sell, or subpoena.
No account, no ads
Nothing to sign up for, nothing sold. You are not the product — Ori is simply free.
You choose what it sees
Your words, and only the body signals you allow. Turn any source off whenever you like.
Privacy questions, answered plainly.
Is Ori a private journal? Where are my entries stored?
Do I need an account to use Ori?
Does Ori sell or share my data?
Can I use Ori without connecting any health data?
Is a private journal app still free?
Write the true version. It stays yours.
No account, no cloud, nothing sold — and a letter back each evening anyway. Free, and it's stored only on your phone.
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